You may want to invest $1k of your money now. It'll help cover the cost of the therapy that I'm sure your child will need in about 18 years.

Yes, the locals are snotty, but somehow I think you'll fit right in.

classic post mikey! i too am going on a baby-making trip (we hope) in may... we're going to turks and caicos...just sun, beach, the room, great rum drinks all day and great dinners at night.

Try Ladera in St. Lucia for some good old fashioned bottom-knockin'. If you can't get it going at Ladera, you can't get it going anywhere.

Missus Mikey: If you are 'trying' to get pregnant you shd. not be drinking champagne & rum! C'mon! Alcohol can do serious neurological damage to a developing fetus. Wake up, guys!!!

Excessive Alcohol can do damage. An occassional drink is fine. Hard liquor, probably not but a glass of wine or beer, every once in awhile, will not harm a fetus.

The "no alcohol" rule is unfortunately needed for those who do not understand the term "in moderation." If you say alchohol is ok in moderation, some irresponsible person will drink a quart of Jack Daniels every day and then sue their Doctor when the child is impared.

Moderation or not, you drink, it goes straight to your baby. If you are a responsible enough adult to have a child you can lay off the booze for 9 months. Same with cigarettes and other drugs.
Where'd you get your diploma...mailorder?

I hear babies like it. Who wouldn't. I say go for it, Mike...and your wife too.

I don't drink or smoke or do drugs.....but I sure do love my Rosey Palm

Back to the point, without the endless moralistic envious sniping/lol:June will, ironically, NOT be fashionable season in St.Barts --plus, it's more Breton than Provence AND more Hamptons than either.... Still a department of France, the duties on your Veuve Cliquout will be rather excessive. On 6K for a Eurotrash blow-out that's exotic, sensual, testosterone and estrogen peak-leveled, the old DASHEEN on Ladera is a good choice, tho not French. Try MARTINIQUE (Habitation LeClerc) -- or Maruccia's Mandelli's place,K=CLUB on BARBUDA or Isabel Goldsmith's places on the west coast of Mexico. Top recommendation:Fly AIR FRANCE through Paris to Mahe in the Seychelles and then over to PRASLIN. It'll give you 'bragging rights' for decades; it's the most spectacular beach territory in the world;there are no americans, germans; more french and italians since the language is kreole french and the culture a mix of swahili,arab,indian,french,brit and malay. And the coco de mer there produces erotic blooms and nuts that will levitate your libido. The only snobbery is in renting out the Chauve de Souris on an islet across from Cote d'Or. Stay at L'ARCHITRAVE or another upscale beach place -- the standards are posh, the cuisine spectacular.

Huh, Tiverton you lost me. Take a chill pill and learn not to write in run on sentences.

Travel advice for Yep:Myrtlebeach, S.C.

Been there, didn't like it. St. B is my style. Through reading your ramblings I would have to say that you have a need to impress....but while you're at it, have a point.....

This is the funniest, most ridiculous thread I've come across. Mikey- St. Barts will be perfect for your quest. My husband and I had the most sex that week there (on our honeymoon) than we have ever had since! Obviously, enjoy the island and experience some sights since you're there, as it's possible that the trip won't produce a baby...

This business about alcohol! No, it's not recommended that a woman trying to conceive should be boozing it up, but it's not likely to harm a "fetus" since the boozing will occur on, what, about Day 1 or maybe 5 of the pregnancy!

Dear Mikey:
My husband & I were in St. Barts 12 years ago. Guess what? I got pregnant w/my 1st child on that trip after 10 years of marriage. I guess looking at topless and naked people all week upped our hormone levels and it just happened.
About the drinking---let's face it---half the people on the face of this earth are here because their parents were smashed the night they were conceived.

Which proves the point! At least half the people on the planet are neurologically challenged!

Let's face it, most of our parents had a martini in one hand and a cigarette in the other all through their pregnancies. I am pregnant now and have had a couple of small glasses of wine after reading an article by a world famous ob/gyn (can't remember his name) who said a few glasses of wine would be harmless.

Have fun makin' babies!

This is a VERY funny string...finally,
Ashley and a few others wrote something
correct and true....having a few drinks
on the night of conception (give or take
a day or two) will not cause
neurological impairment in a 1 - 2 day
old fetus. Yeeesh people, ease up!
Don't bash me for going outside of the
caribbean, but I vote for a week in an
over water bungalow on Bora Bora....just
an innocent thought.

Try Cap Juluca in Anguilla, Mikey. Indisputably one of the top 3 or 4 hotels in the Caribbean, on a spectacular beach with a gorgeous view of St. Martin, ultra-luxurious rooms (get a suite with your own pool), etc. The very definition of romantic, and expensive with a capital E. Anguilla's not a French island, but then again "French island" and "snobby" are merely different ways of saying the same thing. Especially if your Francais is weak, in which case you are considered a certified idiot and will be treated as such. Anguillians, on the other hand, are some of the friendliest folk anywhere, and it isn't that fake "Irie! Yah mon!" crap you get elsewhere. It's genuine. If you have a real jones for some French attitude, take a day trip over to St. Martin, shop for ritzy French stuff, then have dinner in Grand Case. Magnifique! In re: hurricanes, June is at the front end of the season, so the risk is pretty low. If it happens to rain a lot, ah well.... more time for....baby-making! Get yourself a big bottle of the local concoction called Sea Moss. It has legendary properties as an aphrodisiac. Not that you'll need such a thing. Besides, Cap seems to have that effect on people all by itself. Good luck with the conception, wherever and whenever it may take place.

You might consider a cruise. Some years back a cruising magazine did a survey that reported cruisers did the nasty at least six times during a cruise. They had to be talking about a 7 day cruise because for me to meet the average would require a round-the-world (no pun intended) year long cruise

Just a tip: Go to the "Family of the Americas" website if you want to DRAMATICALLY increase your chances of getting pregnant-- it'll help you decide WHEN to go!

I have to say this is pretty entertaining. Some people need to get a grip. Drinking while TRYING to conceive is not harmful. Lighten up!

Anyhow - my vote would be Ladera - splitting your time between there and Jalouisie down below - both places are terribly romantic.

Good luck!!!

I don't think Mikey should be reproducing if he is at this maturity level in life. Stick to legit travel questions and keep your sex life to the other message boards for people of your limited mind