Enjoy your vacation dear @dswigle :) This post of you is really beautiful, you have this grace to show things as they are, with honesty...
I'm not a resort guy either. In fact, it's even worse (or better^^) because I think I hate it frankly. I much prefer to live as close as possible to how the majority really live... of course, as a foreigner, this is almost always impossible, but between total immersion and the infinity pool, there must be a happy middle ground !
Thanks again for the refreshment, enjoy and take care of yourself 😘
Here's still a little window open on Paris.