Escape the Olympics with help from HolidaysPlease.co.uk

PRLog (Press Release) - Jun. 26, 2012 - Some of us can’t wait for the Olympics – we’re gagging for some Greco-Roman wrestling, hyped for the hurdles, desperate for a decathlon and anticipating archery like there’s no tomorrow.  But there are also haters out there, awful anti-Games types who will be fleeing the country for as long as possible, muttering bad-humouredly even as they stow their bags.

For the latter sorts, a holiday destination during the Olympics needs to be considered carefully.  Because, let’s face it, pretty much every hotel has a TV, and pretty much every TV will be showing the Games at some point.  So, short of climbing Everest or deep-sea diving for two weeks non-stop, where can one go to escape this brouhaha?  Long-haul specialist Holidaysplease.co.uk has the answers:

(GENUINELY) ‘NO NEWS, NO SHOES’ HOTELS
Various Maldives hotels operate a ‘no news, no shoes’ policy.  This refers to their remoteness and laid-back attitude, but doesn’t always correlate to a complete absence of CNN.  But the Coco Palm Dhuni Kolhu and Soneva Fushi resorts stick more honourably to the ethos: while turning up to dinner barefoot is more than okay, asking someone to turn on the 100m semis really won’t go down well...  

Coco Palm Dhuni Kolhu, Maldives
To avoid tellies at this Maldives bolthole, you need to spend… less!   For while the top-level Sunset Lagoon Villas come with TVs, the cheaper villas and rooms do not, leaving you ample time to enjoy the house reef, sheltered lagoon, sundecks and champagne breakfasts, and with some bonus dosh to boot.  TVs can be hired at cost, and there is Wi-Fi connectivity – but surely you wouldn’t go 5,000 miles away only to watch trampolining on a stop-start internet stream?  Would you?
Holidaysplease.co.uk (0844 463 2799, www.holidaysplease.co.uk) has seven nights’ B&B during the Olympics from £1,473 pp (two sharing a Beach Villa) including Emirates flights (London) and transfers.

Soneva Fushi, Maldives
Keep it to yourself, but Soneva Fushi’s Rehendi rooms do actually have TVs: but they’re hidden, and only your butler will know where.  If you really must know how the BMX trials are going, he can probably be persuaded to spill the beans but, otherwise, the only cycling you’ll experience will be in using the resort’s ancient bikes to negotiate the local dirt tracks.  That’s part of a stringent eco-policy: as much as it’s divine, Soneva Fushi is environmentally-minded.   Wi-Fi’s only available on request, too, so you truly can forget about that ‘real world’ place and just let the good vibes, and lapping waves, wash over you.
Holidaysplease.co.uk (0844 463 2799, www.holidaysplease.co.uk) has seven nights’ room-only during the Olympics from £2,544 pp (two sharing a Rehendi room) including flights (London) and transfers.

(MOSTLY) NO TVS
Less a policy this time, more a fact: these equally remote, equally paradisical boltholes make getting access to the outside world extremely hard.  That means that the best option is simply to forget about emails, events and equestrian results, and switch off.  

Rockhouse, Jamaica
Stretched across eight tropical acres beside the wonderfully-named Pristine Cove, Rockhouse consists of seaside thatched roof villas on Jamaica’s far western point, the perfect sunset spot.  It has an eight-room spa, distinctive Design Hotel architecture, impressive eco credentials, two award-winning restaurants, a 60ft pool and its own snorkelling reef.  It does have dastardly TVs – but only on request, and only for DVDs, rather than catching the denouement of the discus.
Holidaysplease.co.uk (0844 463 2799, www.holidaysplease.co.uk) has seven nights’ room-only during the Olympics from £2,330 pp (two sharing a Villa) including flights (London) and transfers.

Rosewood Little Dix Bay, Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Isles
Another super-luxury slice of Caribbean real estate, Little Dix Bay again eschews TVs in favour of non-electronic activities.  Once more there are hire-able TVs, but only for viewing movies – so you can watch films, but not fencing (unless it’s The Mask of Zorro).  And while there is Wi-Fi, won’t the cocktail cruises, boat hire and private beach dinners provide you with enough to do?  Or the fitness centre and sumptuous spa?  Or the option of beach-drops at seven of Virgin Gorda’s best coves?  Surely all those attractions are better than watching the women’s triple jump?  Or indeed the men’s triple jump?
Holidaysplease.co.uk (0844 463 2799, www.holidaysplease.co.uk) has seven nights’ B&B during the Olympics from £1,785 pp (two sharing a Garven View Room) including BA flights (London) and transfers.

ENDS – 26 June 2012
For press enquiries about Holidaysplease.co.uk, please contact Richard Mellor or Julia Farish at Travel PR, tel: 020 8891 4440, email: r.mellor@travelpr.co.uk or j.farish@travelpr.co.uk.