The superrich and the super famous have always taken over resorts, always at great cost. But since Covid-19 hit and intrepid types began traveling again, booking out an entire hotel seemed worth the price even for mere mortals.
Seeking adventure in solitude, two families book an entire rainforest lodge for themselves and spend a week ziplining, jumping into rapids and boating through eerie mangroves. ‘Even the teens were impressed.’MY FAMILY IS
not part of the private-jet crowd. We are not even resort people. And we certainly are not the take-over-an-entire-hotel sort of snobs. Quite the opposite, really. Last summer, at the height of the pandemic, we rented an RV along with our frequent traveling companions—my first “mommy” friend and her brood—and pitched tents across upstate New York.
But how? We weren’t yet comfortable sleeping in hotels with strangers. We didn’t want the hassle of navigating treacherous roads to reach Airbnbs. We needed six teens to be entertained without devices, to have freedom to do their own thing, to hole up in an unfussy retreat where they couldn’t get into much trouble. Did such a place exist?
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