Cheers! Happy days are here again, let the spirits flow

And her upbeat mood is being shared byothers down the highway. “We Are Wet. Cheers!” reads a colourful poster splashed outside the Resort Country Club, Manesar. “We can only thank God for allowing good sense to prevail,” says J B S Bawa, Proprietor of Wet ‘n’ Wild World, a three-star hotel and water games complex. The liquor ban had, in fact, sent Bawa’s business plummeting by 75 per cent, forcing him to put on hold plans to set up an ice-skating rink, and to wring his hands over the bowling alley he had set up.

Today, Bawa is busy brushing the cobwebs off his drawing board. And his mind is humming with new plans, which include laying out tennis courts besides building a health club and gymnasium. Bawa sums up the mood in his usual laconic way: “We see a brighter future ahead.”

At Fireball, you can almost touch the air of anticipation as the Bijon Das Gupta-designed discotheque modelled after a spaceship is being given a makeover it badly needs. “We are going to remind people that this is the place to be,” says Goel, and going by thepast experience of Fireball attracting just about every celeb from Mumbai and Delhi, her confidence doesn’t appear misplaced.

At Heritage Resorts, too, the empty display bar in the lounge will soon be stocked with the real thing. And the Manager, Rakesh Gautam, is already counting the beans. It’s the same with the Resort Country Club. Having survived a 50 per cent drop in business, it has much catching up to do. The 5-km road leading up to the Resort Country Club is being repaired at a vigorous pace. Haryana’s spirits, it seems, are already high and Delhi is just waiting for the big day.