"Presidio Del Mar"

St. John, U.S. Virign Islands
Real Housewives of
New York
season
3
| episode(s)
12
Satchels of gold, satchels of gold. Bethenny Frankel, the first truly famous Housewife, was ascendent this season, her feud with ex-friend Jill Zarin and her pregnancy belly both burgeoning. You might even say that she was “up here” and Kelly Bensimon was “down here.” And thus the scene was set for Scary Island.

The trip was supposed to be a celebration of Ramona’s “renewal”, so she pulled up next to a Hooters yacht and rented a palatial villa with a view of the beach, only for Kelly to unravel.

Convinced that a Skinnygirl gift bag was an attack on her life, she unleashed a torrent of recriminations and non-sequiturs on the assembled ho-bags and cooks. By the final morning, the women were so on edge that all it took was a surprise cameo from Jill, trumpeting a resplendent if nasal “Hiiiiiii” for Alex to break out into panic hives.

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"Dar Liqama"
Marrakech, Morocco
season
4
episode(s)
7-10

How does the saying go? You can take the Housewife out of the Upper East Side, but you can’t prevent Ramona Singer from haranguing and scandalizing every service worker in Luann’s rented Moroccan mansion so badly that they would rather ride off into the desert on an epileptic camel than ever help her unpack again?