Kahuna3 - fantastic pictures , very entertaining and unfortunately, sadly eye opening read. I very much look forward to further revels and plan to search out your books before our trip. If you happen to still be at White Sands when we arrive first week of March it would be my pleasure to buy you a Red Stripe.

I'm a newb to this board, one of those TA aholic's that stumbled onto this board in anticipation of our first visit to Negril. We spent 7 days at the Holiday Inn MoBaj on our honeymoon in '92. After a trip to Mexico, several to Barbados, Jamaica came back onto the radar when we could get a good deal from WJ on flights. To each their own, but we don't do all-inclusives. We rent an apartment, a car and explore a bit. We look for a great beach with no rocks in the water and decent snorkelling close by as home base and go from there. 7 Mile Beach and Negril's amazing sunsets became the destination. Based on location, budget, TA reviews etc a 1BR @ White Sands checked all the boxes.

Being somewhat more enlightened now, certainly gonna bring one of those portable alarms you affix to the door to alert us to it being opened in the night. Sad... I honestly don't know what to think about having 2 teenagers (m16 and f14) in tow. They aren't naive but certainly aren`t partiers -yet anyway Yikes... We do look forward to the beach, cliffs, sunsets, scenery, meeting locals and the glorious food. 16 sleeps. Negril here we come. 3/4 steam ahead