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February 13, 2024
I respect everyone’s views and way of living. Well, almost everyone’s. I am also sure that many people will find the life habits of my wife and I together with the way we run our own house to be peculiar to say the least. But one thing is the ways you run your private life and place of living. But it is completely different, if you suggest to people to come to your place for their holidays being lured by your promise of luxury – excuse me, “eco-luxury” - and pay you quite a bit of money for it, like owners of El Remanso do. In this case you must understand that your own views may not be shared by everyone or even by majority and you have to adapt your “concept” to general public. Or, at least, to be more precise in what it is that they are going to get in case deciding to spend their time and money at your property. OK, here is how El Remanso “eco-luxury” looks like: Rooms/villas: DON’T have air-conditioning, NO hairdryers (female customer can dry their hair in less sustainable places), NO minibars, NO drinking water (you are supposed to drink from ecological taps), NO body lotion (though somehow they do have shampoo-conditioner-body wash trio), NO facial paper tissues!!! (when I asked what I am supposed to do, if I need to blow my nose, the answer was: use a towel, we will bring you another one). All of these aren’t ecological and sustainable, and I am sure I forgot to mention something else that isn’t there, because there is nothing. Strange somehow, they have unsustainable toilet paper. Why not suggest clients also use towels or may be sustainably do it with their fingers? Being anti-ecological and, maybe, even anti-social my wife and I – being on holidays – sometimes like to sleep in late or take a nap after lunch if getting up super-early for a wildlife viewing in the morning. Not so easy in epicenter of eco-luxury. The walls of the rooms consist perimetrally of window size holes being covered with mosquito nets only. No curtains or blinds whatsoever. They are not ecological, I guess. So, it is superbright starting from sunrise at around 05:40 a.m. till sunset. Locks: or their absence, if to be correct. There are no locks whatsoever either on the entrance or terrace doors. “People roam freely together with monkeys” – as El Remanso site says. OK, one should trust his stuff. But so far nobody has figured out a waterproof formula against cardinal human sins. Not that I heard of at least. And speaking roaming monkeys: monkeys are super-intelligent animals. Once in Malaysia I was witnessing as one was expertly opening a zipper of my sports bags and starting to look inside with interest, when I woke-up from my frenzy and started running towards it shouting, which finally saved the contents of the bag. So, opening sliding terrace doors, which are not locked or secured in any way at El Remanso will be a piece of cake even for any kindergarten age monkey. And I saw a couple not further than 20 meters from our terrace on the first morning. Laundry: