Tell me your choice.

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Originally Posted by nori

Cocolapalm is great. I would add Charela and Idle awhile

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As I mentioned in my original post, those are the two resorts we have already tried

I've stayed at both Treehouse and CC. I liked Treehouse better and for a few reasons: 1) Buffet breakfast - varied and all good. I got a little bored with CC breakfast off the menu. 2) a little more activity at Treehouse - jerk chicken hut, water sports, guest reception on Sat nights. 3) My bed at CC was rock hard. 4) beach lounge chairs at Treehouse in better shape than CC.

I think I know what's lacking at White Sands. We stay there as the price is hard to beat and the rooms are quite nice. But here's the deal, the rooms are renovated to western standards. When you're in the room and the doors are closed you could be in any hotel room anywhere. In all the other mentioned resorts you still know you are in Jamaica when your in the room because Jamaica is designed into the room, lots of local character. We find if we open the doors to the balcony, and every room has one, you let Jamaica back in and it's all good. That just our opinion anyway.

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My 2 cents...

I've stayed at (3) mentioned and CCLP is my favorite. And, I agree with the others on CCLP I think its a great hotel and perfect location especially for the person that's coming from AI resort experiences, it's kinda on the same scale but of course smaller property and if you don't want to leave the property you don't have to because everything is there!

TreeHouse was just OK for me and that's only because of their location is too far down the beach...Although they do have that AI resort feel with most things on property, so if a person didn't want to leave the property for whateva reason they would have all they need right there.

White Sands, was just OK for me it is in a great location my apartment style room was awesome! but it lacked something and I'm not sure what...it just didn't give me that "I will definitely be back" feel... so I probably wont stay there again unless there's no other options.

If I may add Rondel Village is another nice hotel similar to CCLP but smaller and the only downside for me is they don't have umbrellas outside the hotel walls so if you are lounging on the beach you will literally cook lounging under that sun with no kinda shade, although some folks like that:)...they do have a few inside the wall but who wants to lounge inside that's my only hang up with them.

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For those who are concerned about CCLP becoming "pricey", watch negrilonestop.com for special deals. You can also get on their email list for heads up on upcoming deals on all the hotels they book for.

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Excellent suggestion!

We are normally cliff dwellers, but we have an opportunity to take a short trip at the end of May this year. We are looking at CCLP, want to try something new. My question is, are the beach resorts and Coco in particular as "cool" as the cliff resorts. We like to indulge in Jamaicas finest and have no issues on the cliffs. Will we be disappointed staying on the beach.

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I posted this on a FB group today and got some great responses. I'll post the question here and see what the responses are. Please tell me which resort you like and WHY.

My wife and I have been to Jamaica several times and have finally stopped staying at the all inclusive resorts. So far we have stayed at Idle Awhile and Charela Inn and loved them both. We love trying new resorts and this fall we are looking at four options:. Cocolapalm, White Sands, Country Country, and Treehouse. Please let us know which of these four resorts you like the best and why. Thanks in advance!

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Firefly Every Time

The beach is fine, however there's more family's on the beach, so you may need to be a bit discreet at times. If there are children nearby, I usually just take a walk or hang out at one of the little bars to burn one or a few. Sitting on our balcony is another favorite spot.

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The beach is fine, however there's more family's on the beach, so you may need to be a bit discreet at times. If there are children nearby, I usually just take a walk or hang out at one of the little bars to burn one or a few. Sitting on our balcony is another favorite spot.

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If the balcony at coco is cool to burn one, then I have no issues.

Greg,
We were in Negril in 2016 and going back this year. The day we were there we stopped at the treehouse and met people and they let us hang out there all day and we just got one bucket of Big Red. We had our own cooler. Place was nice people were so friendly, But we did not get hassled by vendors,,But looking forward to SATP this year,,