Some friends heading there from falmouth . Cab driver says auqa sol beach. I see bad reviews. Anyone know that beach? Should they stick with drs cave?
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Some friends heading there from falmouth . Cab driver says auqa sol beach. I see bad reviews. Anyone know that beach? Should they stick with drs cave?
Aqua Sol Beach has a lot of children there....if they have children this might work out best for them...otherwise I would stick with Doctors Cave Beach.
Thanks. They have teenagers . I looked up auqa sol. And on trip advisor it sounds awful sketchy. Realize trip advisor not a
Ways the facts.
I would go to Doctors Cave Beach....it's closer to Margaritaville for the teenagers also.
Great point. Thanks
Doctor's Cave Beach for sure. It is actually my favourite beach. It's about $300JA per person to get on for the day, but you can get stamped and go and come as you please. There are some nice restos for beach snacks and drinks; a jetty at the end where you enter where you can go throw bread in the water and the fish come in droves! Very few hustlers. It's pretty safe - we used to send the kids there on their own when the oldest was about 11 or 12, and they were fine. There is also a new or re-newed public beach. I don't know anything about safety there, but from the water at Dr.'s Cave, it looked pretty nicely appointed. I think it's called Cornwall ... I think.
There is Mobay Undersea tours which is pretty cool. Even teenagers would be impressed! It's a glass bottom boat on steroids. The lower deck of the boat is below water, and glassed in, so you have a great almost 360 view of the undersea. You can snorkel off the back of the boat at one point in the tour. The crew are divers, and they go off during the tour and bring you some interesting stuff to see from the glass deck - sea urchins, puffer fish - whatever is 'available". They keep an eye on ocean floor and point out upcoming treasures of the sea. Good tour. You come up on deck after and are amazed at how close to shore you are!
You aren't too far for an evening run to Glistening Waters. Awesome. If I were on an Anthony Bordain-type layover and could only do one thing in Ja, I would go to Glistening Waters. Again, even teenagers would be amazed. mind you, it's just past Falmouth, so they may have been!
Margaritaville is cool. There's an uber water slide the kids will love and lots of toys in the water to bounce on and expend energy. The food's much more reasonable and better quality now than it was before.
I would give AquaSol a miss, but that's my personal opinion. It has go cart and some other stuff, but it doesn't seem worth the price of admission. Seems to be more for younger kids.
Walter Fletcher beach is much improved. Good for a walk down from Margaritaville and a dip in the sea. Wouldn't spend a day there as there is not much around for snacks and drinks.
Pork Pit is a must to eat at! Great stuff!
Unless it's improved A LOT, I would avoid Buccaneer's Beach, too. Too much hard stuff for sale there and kinda sketchy, to me.
Hope this helps!
Get out of MoBay as quick as you can drive to Negril .
Ahhh .. Limo mon! Every place has it's "place' and beauty! I did my Jamaica-growing-up in Mobay! It's not so bad! You just gotta see the good part! Or try to! Mobay is not all bad! It's not for all of us, but it's OK! We all love Negril, but a week end off the reservation isn't a bad thing, eh?
They did go to dr,s cave and margaretaville and had a great time.
The taxi driver stopped at auqa sol first and my 18 year old said it was "ghetto"
Doctors Cave is the only beach mi would go to in Mobay.....
MoBay and Ochio Rios really don't have much in the way of big beaches......
after Negril Beach you really get spoiled.....
Cool Runnings, Marko
Marko, agree fully. Have visited negril many many times and last year we took a cruise for a stay at falmouth . Following stop were the Caymens . Bad to say but if It was my first visit to jamaica I would have no interest in returning.
Spanky,
You might be interested in this article today in the Observer:
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lates...ment-this-year
The government is aware and working on that!
Go get' em Wykeham
I've found the the re-opened Cornwall Beach, next to Dr's Cave, is very nice, quiet.
Rob,
Thanks agree of course with the excessive hustling . Also don't want to give an idea to anyone of bringing the cruise ships to negril but falmouth can not compare at least in my opinion and level the beaches there are just ok at best.