If he was really serious about doing it more like the old days he'd put on the party at Sands or similar. There, the old Ushuaia / La Plage etc. are the only sorts of venues left where it still feels right for 'free' daytime parties imho. If I'm going to party in the afternoon, if I'm honest I don't really want to be roped in round a pool with the Sea and sand on the doorstep - on top of a hotel tower would be the last place I'd pick as a choice of where to be on a sunny afternoon with the beach below.
Always kind of feel like I'm wasting good daylight when I could be where I really want to be, dance barefoot in the sand, nip off for a swim if I fancy it and come back to the party without a whole load of formalities. Wind up wanting to get p!ssed otherwise to quell the niggling feeling in the back of my mind that I should ought to be somewhere else, whoever is behind the decks, and that's not really a very good state of affairs if I think about it rationally.
Circo Loco afters @ Sands were pretty cool. Everything about it right enough - had planned on not staying but the beach location won me over. Great party stuff despite being in PDB. It's each to their own I guess, but for me day = beach or countryside and night = party / club. Add party to beach / countryside in daytime and I'm tempted to spend a couple of hours of my day there 8).