The problem is radio spectrum is like your worst holiday swimming pool nightmare: a lot of the space is taken up by towels and every time the attendant tries to free up a sun lounger or change the terms of use he or she finds themselves at the wrong end of the threat of a legal action - especially as some people paid a lot for their place in the sun.
For the many religious and cultural holidays, people pool their money and buy food and wine.
The 45-euro admission fee (55 euros on weekends and holidays) includes pool access and the use of the gym and sauna.
A few Manhattan buildings, most of them exclusive co-ops, have endeavored to short-circuit the social anxiety of tipping their staffs by organizing holiday tipping pools, which are then distributed to the staff according to seniority.
So, for example, a customer might land on a travel site looking for a hotel holiday with a pool to keep the kids happy.
"I think a year from now it will be common-place to see people reading Booktracks on the subways, on holiday, by the pool," he says.
It has a lot of holiday camps, swimming pools, theatres and buildings that were built for leisure activities.
The bride's father is the president of Harrow's in Melville, a store chain that sells holiday decorations, swimming pools and outdoor furniture.
They were at the end of 43 hours' leave from the trenches and for their holiday they had pooled their money for cigarettes, and something had gone wrong, and the cigarettes had never come through to them.
We loved everything about those holidays: the outdoor pool we'd play in, come rain or shine, until we literally turned blue, making friends with kids with funny accents, the talent show, the teen disco, even the slightly damp and claustrophobic caravan with its narrow bunkbeds and tiny wardrobes.
