No endless queues at check-in, no £3-a-sip bottles of water in the mini bar, no-sell-your-house-to-call-America telephone charges.
Older men, sipping bottles of Heineken, boast of jungle hunts for peccaries and tapirs.
Standing on "Big Bambú" last week, sipping bottles of beer in T-shirts and jeans, the Starns said they thought the Met had responded like a pretty cool parent.
Farther up the coast, at Pierre & Friends, a tiki-style bar of thatched bamboo nestled beneath a steep embankment, waves crash against a narrow stretch of rocky sand as a 30-something crowd snaps photos and sips bottles of Almaza, a Lebanese beer.
There are fly girls and players and b-boys and yuppies and buppies and tattooed frat men from Alpha Phi Alpha and wannabe D.J.'s or V.J.'s, all slicked down with something oily, sun-protection factor nil, and sipping bottles of Moët & Chandon White Star.
"If it's the water, I'm all for it," Coach Mike Babcock said as his players sipped bottled Arrowhead spring water in the bowels of the Ducks' arena, Arrowhead Pond.
Wearing a short black skirt, high-legged boots and a brown leather jacket, the blonde bombshell on acoustic guitar looked as sweet as she sounded, dealing with the altitude by sipping bottled San Pellegrino water instead of "El Caminos".
It is only then that they are taken to the small screening room, where they sit on Eames-style sipas, sip from bottles of Evian and watch the film.
'I've retired now,' says a jolly, curiously youthful ex-farmer as we sip tiny bottles of shandy under his apple tree.
Many were sipping from bottles of rum.
Guests in linen suits and party dresses sipped little bottles of Moët through straws.
