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re: Is Montego Bay, Jamaica a family destination place?
Posted on 6/24/15 at 7:37 pm to Will Cover
Posted on 6/24/15 at 7:37 pm to Will Cover
NO, Jamaica is G H E T T O. Bahamas are bad too, but they have nothing on Jamaica. Jamaica is best observed from a walled compound with a nice beach.
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Posted on 6/24/15 at 7:49 pm to Napoleon
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NO, Jamaica is G H E T T O. Bahamas are bad too, but they have nothing on Jamaica. Jamaica is best observed from a walled compound with a nice beach.
I mean, yes and no. The locals are pretty much all devastatingly poor, but I'm a firm believer in the golden rule as a tourist. If you treat them nice, they'll treat you nice, and everyone will have a gay old time (generally! nothing is guaranteed!)
I'm also a firm believer in the rule of "If you're looking for trouble, you can find it." I've been smart, confident, man of the people tourist, and I've also been idiot-rube tourist in many places.
As an aside, I know people rag on Jamaica a lot, and some of it is deserved, but it's not Thunderdome. Ask anyone about pickpockets and scam artists around Europe and South America. There is a criminal element everyhwere, but there's a difference between being at risk and being irrationally afraid.
Posted on 6/24/15 at 8:06 pm to Napoleon
A friend and I walked with my kid from the private beach all the way to the Pork Pit with no problems. Tons of very nice police on foot along the way. Took pictures with several. Locals weren't pushy with their wares like other places.
Wife, her aunt, and wheel chair-bound grandmother went on their own to some flea markets. The locals flooded them with attention but no problems, either. Nice people--even pushed around the grandmother.
Wife's other aunt and husband went further inland for a river excursion. No problems for them, either. Liked Montego so much that they got married there a couple years later.
Loved seeing the kids coming home from school dressed in their uniforms. Looked nicer than some students in US schools.
The taxi driver offered us drugs on the way back, but I would've been disappointed to not have the full Jamaican experience before leaving.
Absolutely beautiful water.
Wife, her aunt, and wheel chair-bound grandmother went on their own to some flea markets. The locals flooded them with attention but no problems, either. Nice people--even pushed around the grandmother.
Wife's other aunt and husband went further inland for a river excursion. No problems for them, either. Liked Montego so much that they got married there a couple years later.
Loved seeing the kids coming home from school dressed in their uniforms. Looked nicer than some students in US schools.
The taxi driver offered us drugs on the way back, but I would've been disappointed to not have the full Jamaican experience before leaving.
Absolutely beautiful water.
This post was edited on 6/24/15 at 8:08 pm
Posted on 6/24/15 at 8:46 pm to Napoleon
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Jamaica is best observed from a walled compound with a nice beach.
This is every non-white Caribbean destination, if we're being honest. Most of Mexico too at this point.
If you leave the kids home and go to the Hilton MB property, you will regret it due to how many kids are there. That property is made for kids, and it is very safe.
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