I run a full-service resort.

There is one large full-service resort on Orcas, the Rosario, (800) 562-8820.

These places range from a modern full-service resort with a golf course to a cluster of simple cabins deep in the forest.

Telluride, the 19th-century mining town in southwestern Colorado is about to gain its first large full-service resort.

The chief industry is tourism, with lodging and vacation rentals ranging from cottages and cabins to motels and full-service resorts.

Since opening last winter, that hotel - the first full-service resort on Vieques - and its plantation-style design have become a punching bag for locals.

The full-service resort, where you don't worry about transportation, what will the kids do or finding a good restaurant, is a logical evolution.

As Jasper's only year-round full-service resort, it has onsite and offsite activities including hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, and canoeing.

A full-service resort would expedite relaxation: who wants to waste precious hours scrambling about the countryside in search of restaurants and good beaches?

At this full-service resort, three-bedroom chalets and condominiums that sleep six cost about $205 a night in high summer; a standard double room is $105 a night.