dont waste your money
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 7/31/05
the staff were the worst i've experienced so far. out of 100 staff members we tried to interact with, only about 5 showed any interest to help us. They made it very clear that they do not like americans. The hotel was clean, however the main restaurant was not airconditioned. it was nearly impossible to eat breakfast,lunch, or dinner in 100 degree heat. NOt that the food was worth consuming. We didnt have cold water or an electric outlet in our bathroom. Our bed felt like they took a boxspring and put sheets on it. the pillows were flat as pancakes. we used 3 to equate to one normal pillow. the a/c blew cool not cold air and made a loud noise until my husband rigged up something in the middle of the night to fix it. At 7 am , the construction workers were out front making a bunch of noise, so forget about sleeping in. They told us that the water park would be open long before now, and it is no where near competition. It looks very fun, but it definetly wont be open until the fall. The 2 specialty restaurants were excellent. the service, food, atmosphere,a/c, were all very good. But it was very hot and the only place to get out of the heat was your room ( which ours wasnt cool) or the gift shop. Every where else was open and smoltering. The people at the airport were the absolute rudest people we have ever met. they dont have customer service skills at all!!! They holler at you, ignore you, treat you like your crap.
I would only recommend jamaica if you dont mind feeling like they dont want you there. They dont acknowledge you standing there and you can tell they see you. just straight up ignorant. I've heard Negril and Ochos Rios is nice. But getting through the airport without killing somebody, getting harassed for money, being sold drugs, or lord knows what , is all a challenge. I'll stick to someplace where the people like tourists and are happy to help you.
THe resort needs much sprucing up. New pool chairs , they're falling apart and faded, new snorkel equipment ( ours kept filling up with water), plumbing worked on, you definetly need water shoes to go into the beach water. the sand is very rocky and pebble-y, and the jelly fish were everywhere.
The sad thing is this place was on Oprah a few years ago and she gave it great reviews. they must have put little to no effort into it since then.
THe tour directors messed up our tour to Sea Trek. THey told us to meet the bus at 9:30am, at 9:15 they said we missed it, that it left at 9:00. So we had to miss that, than later on we did a tour that advertised $53/person for 25 minutes walking under water and touching different sea creatures and 1 hour to snorkel, then our bus picks us up to take us back to sunset beach. Nope, after the 25 min. walk, they told us to go to the street and wait for our driver. no snorkeling!!! They wouldnt refund any money. Very unorganized and false advertising.
i could go on about the stuff that happened on this vacation. We were extremely disappointed.
Also, a little kid vomitted in our pool and do you know, no one came to clean it for over an hour.. nasty!!!