We were able to completely let go of modern life without travelling to a different country or paying a fortune to be pampered.
The recordings are riddled with expletives, code words and eccentric nicknames such as "kitty", "pampered boy", "hummingbird", "Maori queen", "captain" and "Colombo".
At the Subhas (doubles from £25 per night, subhasgroup.com), where we stay, only one wing is so far refurbished, but the welcome is friendly, and we're pampered with room-service breakfasts of dosai or warm roti, with vegetable curry, spicy sambol, fruit and tea.
That is not what they have travelled thousands of miles to see.Mr Sobir cannot do much about El Niño, but he does his best to see that coral is otherwise pampered.
People are flocking to health clinics and spas; alternative medicine such as acupuncture is gaining in popularity.As families restrict their number of offspring, partly for economic reasons, children are also being pampered.
DESPITE the aviation industry's woes, pilots remain in short supply around the world, so most are pampered.
The press, pampered by a hugely efficient press office, devotes pages to it, especially if British interest remains intact into the second week, or if nubile young female players distinguish themselves, or behave scandalously, or threaten to behave scandalously (or all of the above).
At the moment it is stuck in between; no longer a child to be coddled and pampered, but not yet able to pay its own way.
Pampered middle-class kids are few and far between on the Doddington estate in south London, a public housing complex known locally for knife crime and dogfights.
New energy is being pampered while old energy faces a desperate fight for contracts in a glutted market.One problem is that the obvious source of new investment is old investors and they have their doubts.
Many are overcome with emotion as they receive their wreaths, before being led away to a medical tent to be massaged, pampered and put on saline drips.Euphoria is fleeting.
