Quote Originally Posted by Monty&Melo View Post
Have to agree with a lot of posts here, maybe I'm a simpleton or maybe I don't have the kind of money that has spoiled me like some do, but a day at Catcha, followed by a night at Ivans is pretty much the greatest thing I have ever done in my life and it maybe cost me $300 total. If it can get better than that I can't imagine it and I sure as hell don't want to pay for it. Catcha is a bargain compared to anything like this. If I won the lottery, I wouldn't go to the Caves, I would just go to Catcha....a lot more often!!!!

M&M
Nice post. Made me think a likkle bit about when I talk to people and tell them I live in Jamaica. A lot of them (who went there, of course) do what I call "reply to impress". What I mean by that is saying they stayed at Sandals, Hedo, The Caves, etc. with an expectation of impressing me on how classy they travel.

When I say that I live in deep in the Cockpits and that it cost me about $3500 - $4000 to live there for about half a year (including my airfare), they are usually quite confused as that was about what they spent on a week or two.

I was an Economics Major and I explain the "value" of your money in what is called "utils" (stands for Utilization Value). In other words, if you spend a dollar and get a dollar's worth of value then you get "one util", if you get more, you get 1.(whatever) and less you get .(whatever) etc.

What is hard to evaluate are the intangibles like "peace of mind", etc. so staying at say Catcha would probably be a higher value than staying at The Caves based on money spent for the value received because "peace of mind" is a constant so that once you get it, you don't need to spend any more to achieve it.

My conclusion is that it doesn't take a pile of money to get a good value for your buck. Regardless of where you stay and how long you stay, if you achieve "peace of mind" then you had a good vacation.

Just an observation.

Peace and Guidance