Thomson Airways (0871 231 4691; thomson.co.uk) flies to Goa from Gatwick, Manchester and East Midlands from £599 With just six rooms and two suites, Hibiscus House is a world away from the vast resort hotels that now dominate Gambia's beaches.
While I was in the country, the President was opening a vast ski resort in the Shahdagh region complete with five star facilities.
These include Palm Island, a vast new resort development constructed in the shape of a palm, which projects 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) into the sea off Jumeirah and extends Dubai's coastline by 61 kilometers (38 mi).
This vast resort in Punta Cana is a favorite of Caribbean insiders.
Anything but understated, the vast resort has more than 20 restaurants, a waterpark and more than 1,500 rooms including underwater suites with views into a tank filled with 65,000 exotic fish.
If you asked people leaving a ski store in the metropolitan New York area this question, as I recently did, it would be a very long time before someone mentions Sunday River, the vast resort of eight peaks in central Maine.
We were grumpy and tired when we checked into this vast resort in south-west Sicily – to be greeted by 50 staff members all singing and clapping.
At its height, the Hotel del Coronado played host to stars such as Bette Davis and Katherine Hepburn; countless presidents have stayed here – and for Some Like It Hot fans, the vast resort is where the gender-swapping antics of Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Marilyn Monroe were shot.
To navigate the vast resort and avoid hassles from overzealous fans, celebrities trade front-of-the-line VIP treatment from Disney..
Chamonix, Verbier or the vast resorts of North America certainly don't hold a monopoly on powdery adrenaline kicks.
