Newbie Trip Report 4/12 - 4/19

[billndonna]

Great report and pictures,looking forward to more.Thanks for sharing!

[Bnewb]

I'm not a big fan of the Juicy Chicken Patties. It's OK but like you said it mostly has a chicken bouillon flavor. The beef patties are much better..IMO.

You could try Hammonds at the round about...they sell Tastee Patties...my fav. The chicken patty has a light curry flavour.

[negril#1fan]

thanks for the patty tip....

[drenee]

Friday was our last full day here, so we decided to chill out on the beach for awhile, then headed up to Country Country for breakfast. The banana pancakes were SO good! My step daughter had the honey french toast, and she loved that as well. Hubby and son stuck with eggs & toast. Opal and Angie were working again, and remembered us from earlier in the week. They are just truly nice people, and huge assets to Country Country.

We found Niah’s patties for a light lunch. We had met him a couple times at Tony’s Hut earlier in the week, so we just had to try one of his famous patties! He even told us to go wait at Tony’s while he made our patties, and he delivered them to us! We all got the Italian - cheese, tomatoes, onions. It was excellent! Definitely better than the Juici Patty I had earlier in the week. Niah is a really cool guy, and shared some of his life stories with us. We really enjoyed meeting him.

That afternoon, we hired a cab (directly from the hotel) and had him drop us off at Rick’s Café. We got there early before it got too crazy, and had a good time watching people jump. We did get to see Bird Man dive from his crazy platform! There were a lot of kids here climbing the cliffs, trying to get people to pay to watch them do backflips. That did get annoying after awhile. We skipped out of there just as a bunch of catamarans were pulling up, as it was starting to get too busy for our tastes.


view from Rick's Cafe


another view from Rick's

We had heard good things about Ivan’s Restaurant at Catch A Falling Star, so we walked there for dinner (not gonna lie....the walk was a little scary with the way they drive there!) We got there just as they were about to open their gates for dinner. What an amazing place! Everyone was so friendly, from the bartender to our waitress. We all had excellent dinners (coconut shrimp, mushroom chicken and a jerk sampler with fish, shrimp and chicken). Our dinner and drinks came to $1 more than what we had payed at Margaritaville for 4 cheeseburgers and a couple drinks the night before! What a beautiful place to watch the sunset from! If we ever do make it back to Negril, I think I might like to stay a couple nights at a place like Catch A Falling Star.


sunset from Ivan's at Catch A Falling Star

We headed back to CCLP to begin packing We were all dreading the trip home the next day, but hopeful it would be as easy as arrival was.