How's it work? Thinking of doing it this year, and maybe seeing some spots on the West End that I am not all that familiar with. Does it make the same stops every day? What time does it start? How long does it last? Who to I contact about it?
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How's it work? Thinking of doing it this year, and maybe seeing some spots on the West End that I am not all that familiar with. Does it make the same stops every day? What time does it start? How long does it last? Who to I contact about it?
I think there is diffrent stops some days there is a good bit of infomration on trip advisior on it we did it and had a bawl i think we were picked up around 2 and back around 8
Not to take away from the crawl, but a walk along the West End is easy even at my old age and you can pick your own bars and stay as long as you wish and will run into lots of fun people.
We really enjoyed the one love bus bar tour! much safer than walking...especially after a few bar stops. You will have a blast!
It's a "dont miss" thing to do. Runs Sun, Wed, and Friday. Makes different stops each time. Pick up is early afternoon, exact time depends on where you're staying. lenbert will give you a pick up time when you book. Lasts about four hours but you can leave when ever you like and take a cab home. contact Lenbert at bananaznegril@hotmail.com or call him at 876-874 6631.Quote:
Originally Posted by RyanP
A WestEnd walk is fun too but the bus is a great way to see lots of places. They both have their charm.
I have been on the tour many times and always enjoyed them. Having said that, the last one I went on stopped at a little back road beer shack where, when we stepped off the bus, we had our shorts and skirts tugged on by little kids, asking for money, money, money. Parents standing right there. Real downer.
Too bad you feel that way. That was one of my favorite spots. I don't want to go though life with blinders on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stoners6
Same with us, only it was candy bars :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stoners6
I've met some wonderful people on the pub crawl. & visited some places I might not think of visiting on my own.
Go earlier in your trip. I have met some really nice people that I enjoyed hanging out with later in the week, & kept in touch with them after returning home.
& of course, with us boardies.......the more the merrier!!!!
Same here. We've always had a great time, but on the last crawl we stopped at Negril Escape for our last place and there were several little kids asking constantly for money. It isn't like they asked once and went away, they kept coming up to us like we were going to change our mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stoners6
PLEASE do not forget to TIP the driver Lembert, as he works off tips.....................10.00 each is what we did.
It's a fun time and you meet some great peeps and get to check out some places you may not be familiar with. But along with tipping Lembert the driver, be sure to tip at the bars you stop at. And be respectful and polite and don't haggle over prices. I know the owners of several of the stops the day we did it and they confided that some times the bus crowd can be hard to deal with. By the end you have a bus full of drunks having fun and that can some times be difficult. Also keep in mind that if you are not a big drinker, by the end you will be the sober one on that bus full of drunks which can be less fun. All that being said it is a good time. Go, have fun, but be respectful of the establishments and other patrons.
ROLF
You said it pefert , nice job
We took the One Love Bus trip yesterday. We had 40 people packed on the bus and it was a Hoot. We started at the Red Dragon and then moved on to 5 other stops including the one on the back road shack. This was a stop that many if not all would never have done or seen if not for Lembert and the One Love Bus. I was the first off the bus and the very next lady off spotted a young girl about 3 years old, walk up to her and said, "you are so cute" and pooped $50 in her hand. This little girl was too young to even know how to beg but watched quietly as every body got off the bus. She then got on the and leaned out and open window while us tourists took her picture for $50 more each picture. The next thing we know about six kids age 9 to maybe 12, are around asking for money. This kids then met us at our next stop (running all the way) and even saw us when the bus stopped for supper at AhhhBee's.
The point being, are we as tourists not to blame for starting the problem, and I'm pretty sure that the problem (if it is a problem) has gone too far to stop. Point number 2 is.....it's $50J that I would hope goes to the family, and don't be offended by something that we(as tourists) started.
I have never seen someone poop a $50 bill or, actually, any bill.Quote:
Originally Posted by brownsd54
What is this "we" as tourists business? "I" don't give money out to children (exception being a sweet given as change at a store) or anyone except close friends or for actual services rendered like a taxi, room cleaning etc. Before you pay a child for pictures perhaps it would be good to get the okay from their parents, don't you think? Yes, "you" and other's like you do share some of the blame and "no" it has not gone too far to stop. You can't be surprised that children chased you down as you were just giving out money, can you?
If you give a child the equivalent of 50 cents, do you really think it will be taken back to the family?
Perhaps it would have been better to take up a collection from the bus patrons and have Lenbert drop you by and give the money to Father Jim who would know how to get it to the people with the greatest need.
This only makes it harder for others to have a "no beggy-beggy" trip.
Just my personal opinion. No disrespect meant.
Peace and Guidance
No disrespect taken. I look forward to any and all of your input to this forum Accompong but please don't get what I had to say wrong. I do not hand out money in any circumstance. Instead I choose to give to the Jamaican United Way and I make a healthy donation to Father Jim every year. This way the community as a whole gains, but I can not nor should not influence anyone else that I do not know on that bus into not giving money to kids. I could not agree with you any more about asking the parents if money could be giving but these people were putting money in this little girls hand before even she knew what was going on.
The point that I was trying to make was, one poster to this threat said that the kids begging money was a "real downer". I just wanted to say, don't be offended by a problem that was created by us as tourists.
When you ride through the Smoky mountains there are signs everywhere that say *Don't feed the Bears*. I enjoyed feeding the bears when I was little. Then one day a Ranger explained the need for the signs. He said if the tourists feed the bears they will stop hunting and will depend on hand - outs for food. They will never learn to hunt and will starve.
jokingly said,
if you feed the children money, how will they learn how to rob people when they grow up?
I can't quit laughing at $50 being pooped into the little girls hand. Yes, I have a 3rd grade sense of humor!
I assume we're speaking of Firewater. We like to go there for sunset. I don't recall the children ever asking for money other than tips for cliff divers the one time. They are always there selling bracelets and/or candy bars. We like to get there before the pub crawl. It's usually very quiet with not much going on. Then its like the circus is rolling into town when its time for "di bus", as I've heard the locals refer to it as. The kids usually arrive shortly before or just behind the bus. Within minutes it turns into a bustling marketplace filled with intoxicated guests. Once the pub crawl leaves it gets quiet again. It was a bit busier before and after the crawl this year. It's interesting to see the change in scenes after having first experiencing it on the crawl ourselves.
Well said Accompong.
I wonder if there is a connection between people being handing free money, asking/begging for free money if it is not offered and getting upset when it's not giving leading to taking by force? I'm thinking of the older kids and adults that ask all nice for money and then turning nasty when their nice efforts don't work. IMHO, giving to father Jim is better than imprinting that tourist are Santa Claus.
Is there normally a pretty good crowd on the bus?
Ryan, I've done the crawl 3 times and by the end of the night people are standing in the aisle because it's so full! Sometimes people just jump on and continue with the group. Always a fun time, laughing and singing, especially when the disco music starts playing!
Hey all just got back from our recent trip yesterday, just wanted to chime in on our last trip with Lenbert, a few weeks ago, it was our 3rd. ride on the bus and by far the LEAST enjoyable of our rides. The bus holds 20 ppl comfortably, when you have 40 ppl it's not FUN, it's like being a sardine in a can, and it just gets worse the drunker everyone gets, the AC on the bus quit working and the places we went to where dumps, Horizon West and Negril Escape are 2 examples. He actually had well over 40 ppl. booked that day as he was doing shifts he would drop one group of some where and leave them and go get the other group so some places we would be at for more than half hour I think we only went to 4 places. It's sad to say but I think Lenbert is getting to greedy.
Sounds bad and can walk the West End or cab it and go to bars of your choice and avoid dumps.
That doesn't sound like much fun, newfiegirl59. I'm surprised to hear that Horizon West was a dump. I haven't been there in its current incarnation, but I used to like it when it was called Blue Horizon. I would have thought that they did some renovations since it was closed for a while.
Not a big fan of Negril Escape. Stayed there once and probably won't go back anytime soon. However, I know it was popular with the pub crawl crowd as there was always one or two people who jumped off the lighthouse.
As BostonBob said, if we didn't like a place we just walked somewhere else. For example - when we get tired of Sir D's we just walk across the street to Sexy Rexy's where there are no crowds.
Tell Lenbert you really like the music he plays, and where he got it.
You're so funny Rocknrollfarmer, I know he got most of the music from you & some from THE LOUD ONE aka my daughter. I would say the music was the best part of my last trip on da bus. I think next time I'm gonna get a bunch of ppl. together and see if he can do a personalised bar crawl, with no more ppl. than the bus actually holds.Quote:
Originally Posted by rocknrollfarmer
Pub crawl is a good way for new visitors to get acclimated with the surroundings. I had fun when I did it, but I find wandering on my own 2 feet much more enjoyable.
you should never feel like that on your vacation...if u are not having a good time, u can always save the tip u were planning on giving him, get off at the next stop and call your driver to take u home..so many options...I agree that over booking is becoming an issue...but u control that, get off and dont pay....adapt and overcome...
Great time. At first everyone's kinda quiet, sitting on their SO's laps. At the end, everyone was dancing in the aisles!
Yes it would be a great time if there actually was any aisle space available to just stand comfortably nevermind room enough to dance.Quote:
Originally Posted by saeyedoc
and yes Groove16 i seriously thought of getting off but I was with other ppl. that I didn't want to leave behind, and I like Lenbert as a person so I didn't want to withhold a tip.
I don't think you could pay me enough to get on that thing.
We did it once, back in 2011 ~ had a great time, but just don't feel the need to go again ~~Quote:
Originally Posted by TAH
I think it's a great way to see ..the westend
Have I been on it ..No
Do I ever intend on going ...No
We've always done our own pubcrawl ..
To each ..his/her..own
been on 7 times in the last 4 trips and will do at least one this time....
Been there, done that .............. but WILL be doing the Pub Crawl again in a week ................ always fun, meet lots of new people and always seeing some mew places to spread the wealth ................ lots of worse ways to spend a few hours and a few dollars ............. I can think of a few worst things to do - horse back riding on the beach, renting a jet ski, petting flea ridden, stray cats and dogs, etc.....
To each their own ............... let the party bus begin.
Been on it at least 6 times in 7 trips. I stay on the beach and cliffs. Either way, it makes that day's pub crawl easy (meaning I'd be walknig the beach or road anyway) and maybe I meet some people i like. thats why I keep going.
I also agree that it is a can't be missed experience in Negril. We had a fairly uncrowded bus and met some fun people along the way. We tend to travel in the off season and stay in smaller hotels so sometimes it is a bit harder to meet people.
Lenbert also is a pretty great person from what I have heard and what I have experienced. It is a fairly small thing but when my bf and I were walking up west end road towards the beach, just seeing how far we could make it and planning to get a cab eventually, Lenbert stopped with his bus when he saw us (we were staying at Xtabi so we had run in to him more than once there and struck up a converstaion a few times) and then he drove us down to the beach, and wouldn't even take a tip. This was the first person we had met in JA that wouldn't take a tip, and it was nice to feel that someone just did us a favor to be a nice person.
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Lots of people there do things just to be nice, of course. Yes nice gesture not to take tip and show that side. Great picture and looks like fun. Irie!