Irie -- Catcha is nice, but it's not Tensing. That said, Catcha has Ivan's, and I love that place. There is just something about Tensing that makes it special. People, setting, I dunno, but I love it more than any other resort we've visited.

If you go in November, particularly over Thanksgiving week, you'll see what amounts to a really strange extended family. Most of the people going over thanksgiving come year after year... This will only be our sixth at tensing (but well beyond that for thanksgiving week spent on the island). I commented to my wife las year, that it really felt like a family dinner on thanksgiving night.

As far as them being sold out for November, I am not surprised. We booked last year, while we were there and were unable to get our usual spot (red birch) as someone booked it literally the morning of the day we went to the office for our reservations.

That place is addictive... It literally pops into my head a few times a week. I daydream about napping in my favorite hammock hut with all three dogs keeping guard.