I'm with you...a hotel is a business...a person and their safety...a life....
I'm with you...a hotel is a business...a person and their safety...a life....
I would think that a reference to "occasional" here would be to Negril in general and the hundered of thousands of people visting versus incidents of theft per year not "occasional" to one particular property.
Not knowing the full story regarding personal responsibility, security staffing and procedure on site, hotel staff response, police response etc I would be hesitant to name the hotel if I felt all was done in my best interest. Could be wrong and it won't be the last time either.
How would you ever know the full story? How do you this is not the full story? Let me ask you,do you think there are more robberies at a Sandals where they have More guests? A Sandals can have 200 guest and Zero robberies,,while a small hotel on the cliffs with 50 guest can have More victims.Originally Posted by jar77
Why ?? Because Sandals has TONS of guards,so therefore the "occasional theory" does not wash. Why try to dilute a crime by saying,,oh well,it's just occasional?
Last edited by Fred Stripe; 03-07-2014 at 11:42 AM.
I bet a Red Stripe there have been robberies at Sandals.
It is silly to not want to name the place that allowed this to happen. Their feet should be held the fire.
These hotels have no reason to make changes unless they are called out. There is no such thing as "no problem", it's a big problem if it is allowed to continue as is.
Soon come!
I'm so sorry this happened to you. I stay on the 2nd floor & always lock patio sliders (4 levels including 2 in the door, chain, & the lock I bring), 3 on the room door (door lock, chain, door stopper). Much better to be safe. Cat burglers can crawl along balconies on the outside of buildings... learned that in 1987, not by being robbed but by robberies in the neighboring rooms. Always been security conscious since then. So... thefts nothing new. Usually is an unlocked door. No sense wasting time breaking in when doors are often left unsecured.
security - sometimes at night i can't sleep and take a walk to the bar area . . . to find the security sleeping . . . and the one at the front not there at all . . .
it's good to remember that the "working" folks on the beach watch us foreigners . . .
we are people of habit and tend to do the same thing day in and day out . . .
they pay attention to that . . .
scary stuff for sure . . .
gerry asked why they steel from tourists? we are easy targets, like robbing little old ladies while they cross the street . . .
FYI-i didnt mean the hotel itself- but some type of inside job...
" Ones destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things." (Henry Miller)
first thing i learned about Jam: they're are eyes, and ears everywhere.....I'm glad you weren't physically hurt... Security seems like they dropped the ball...Too bad a persons got lock up everything down like fort knox...Cant even enjoy the evening breeze with a window open..
I respect your choice not to name the hotel but i personally think its a good idea too give tourits the heads up about a property's security(or lack of it)..for all you know they could be in on it...
" Ones destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things." (Henry Miller)
for every reported robbery, bet there is as many that don't get reported . . .
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