I go for it! Super idea that should be considered also here where I live.
At some locations, Club Med has been doing this for decades !
What is time? Ask someone on the night shift and he or she will have a much different answer than -- say -- a rooster (!). It's all relative. In terms of the "real" world, we do need it to keep track of trains, planes and all the other things that allow people to coordinate schedules with each other. Perhaps, the point of a vacation is to have some "time" to ourselves!
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Beyond silly, changing time, but sine qua non - like rose petals on the bed - for the very rich who can afford travel to exotic places. Time flies and flies love bananas.
On a beach vacation, you only need the time when its time to go catch a plane to go home. Ah, the life.
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Why does it have to be exactly one (or two) hour(s)? Why not set the time 1 hour and 26 minutes ahead? That is an island, live a little.
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Soe Club Meds have been doing this for decades. Many people fashion their day on their watches rather than the sun. This neat little device helps overcome that. Though I can't cite the study, I read years ago that absent outside influences humans prefer a 25-hour day. This helps explain why it is generally easier to stay up an extra hour rather than get up an hour earlier than usual. Anyone know of any more recent studies of this?
Having been to Las Catalinas, I would say this is a good recommendation...The morning hours are best there; they have really fun MTB trails that are best before the sun is too high in the sky. Great town to visit if you are in Costa Rica.
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I could go for this. Say, sunrise at noon and sunset whenever it is thereafter, e.g. midnight in June.
Now a more advanced chronometric notion would be to let each traveler be in his or her own time zone. This would require staff to be aware of what time zone each individual guest is in, a challenge. Travelers would have to pay extra at these resorts and hotel schools would have to train their students in the art of guest time zone management.
Groups of travelers would have the commonality of a time zone. One could join the "gin time zone" group were he or she interested in watching the sun rise after a night of revelry.
In this modern tech age, time is altogether arbitrary and these resorts can take advantage of that fact. A next step would be to make days last longer than 24 hours in order to lengthen one's vacation.
Now a more advanced chronometric notion would be to let each traveler be in his or her own time zone. This would require staff to be aware of what time zone each individual guest is in, a challenge. Travelers would have to pay extra at these resorts and hotel schools would have to train their students in the art of guest time zone management.
Groups of travelers would have the commonality of a time zone. One could join the "gin time zone" group were he or she interested in watching the sun rise after a night of revelry.
In this modern tech age, time is altogether arbitrary and these resorts can take advantage of that fact. A next step would be to make days last longer than 24 hours in order to lengthen one's vacation.
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Brilliant: the Art of guest time zone management