thanks to all for your thoughts - I still have not booked yet - I realise that Barcelo seems to get the majority of votes though!... (I still have a sneaky want to go to XPU Shammy!)..... I WAS about to book last night, when I discovered I couldn't use expedia for my billing address as for some strange reason they did't list Ireland (they list every other country in the world though Zimbabwe - Timbuktu

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Have a great holiday in the Lindo Silver Starfish - let us all know how you get on
I'm guessing whichever resort, Lindo/Barcelo we'll be fine, we're quite easy going tbh - so I'm not going to worry anymore .....except to say... are you SURE the Xpu is out of the question
Thnx
Snooky