Bermuda for spring break.

And the three females, who are visiting as fans of the lacrosse team which is scheduled to play against Rutgers University at National Stadium on Saturday, said they will not recommend the Island to their peers.

The news comes as the Tourism Department is recording one of the worst College Weeks in decades and is fighting to attract more college sports groups and their supporters to Bermuda.

"I think it's the most beautiful place, but I won't be back,'' said sophomore Jenna Curry as she sunbathed at Horseshoe Bay yesterday afternoon.

"The drinks and food are too expensive here, in clubs and in stores, and it's not really a spring break place. It's so dead. There's no one our age here. We went to Cancun last year and there was plenty to do.'' Miss Curry and her two college friends, Amanda Smith and Nora Flanagan, said they were expecting a full week of activities promised by Redman Sport - a New York-based tour operator which has been involved with Tourism in promoting travel to Bermuda for a decade.

But when they arrived last Sunday they were told that all College Week activities such as a "party cruise'', "Murder Mystery'' party, and a limbo beach show were cancelled because no other students from the University of Delaware showed up.

"The brochure promised us a list of activities,'' Miss Curry said. "It was that which attracted us to come here.'' The trio, who were the only foreign college students at Horseshoe Beach, said they believe the reservations of some 40 other students from their university were cancelled because they did not send in their payments on time.

"But that has nothing to do with us,'' said Miss Flanagan. "We feel that we've been ripped off.'' The students said it cost their parents some $600 for each round-trip ticket which was to include accommodation and activities on the Island.

But they said when they tried to move from their small guest property accommodation in Warwick, "which is not even on the beach'', to Sonesta Beach Hotel where the university's lacrosse team is staying they were not allowed because there were only three of them.

"Our parents are not going to be pleased about this,'' Miss Smith said, adding that they intend to voice their complaints in letters to the Tourism Department and Redman Sport.

"We will never let Redman Sport put a brochure in our school again.'' In a pamphlet sent to University of Delaware, advertising Bermuda's first Invitational 1st Division lacrosse game, Redman Sport promises: "You'll be receiving a Bermuda Invitational Alumni ID that will be your passport to very special treatment as the Island's most important guests''.

The students, however, said they feel as if they have been shafted.

And Tourism's assistant director for activities, Mr. Randy Horton, said he sympathised with the ladies.

"Originally no activities were planned for this week because this was a week that most colleges were not on vacation,'' he said. "When Redman Sport came to us and indicated that they could get some students for that week, it therefore was opened up.

"But we told them only if they get enough numbers, we would have the programme. Three students are not enough.'' Mr. Horton said the onus was on Redman Sport to tell the students that the activities were cancelled.

"I really think with these kids he (Redman Sport president Mr. Arnie Paglia) should give them back their money,'' he said.

But Mr. Paglia, who is in Bermuda, denied any wrongdoing.

He said he called the women and informed them about the cancellation of activities before they arrived in Bermuda.

"I called them and told them that they would get a free lunch. They were at that time planning their spring break,'' Mr. Paglia said.

"They're probably more upset that there are no other students on the Island.

The University of Delaware is one of the few schools that have a break around this time.''