Good points M&G.
Good points M&G.
I went last week and had a great time. The only thing I noticed this year was drink prices where way up. 8 bucks for a rum punch and a beer. Beer and rum punch on the beach 3 bucks or less each .I mentioned it at the first stop and got the speech about high overhead. I guess the overhead is a lot more on the cliffs .The sign out front said happy hour 2-3 and it was about ten to 3. One place charged 6 bucks for vodka and orange in a little plastic cup.
If its to promote business on the cliffs it did the opposite. I know some places I will never go near again.
If those are the drink prices they are charging on the tour that sucks. Maybe they are raising prices for the tour as it is a captive audience ?
I hope someone is alerting Lenbert to these problems for the long term success of his business. He has a very high TripAdvisor rating now but if this stuff is accurate that will go down and the AI people especially go by TripAdvisor.
In March the prices were up also. Couple of stops had Red Stripes for $3, the rest was $4.
Last edited by Face Down; 04-14-2015 at 02:18 PM.
Ya Mon...Heading home
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Last edited by BIG SHINY n Rootsy; 04-15-2015 at 05:26 PM.
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Cute. but I believe highly inaccurate. Perhaps one of your friends came up with that or you did to be cute but that being what "the locals call it" is over the edge.Originally Posted by BIG SHINY n Rootsy
Just sayin.
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I was told that lenbert collects a fee from each bar he stops at. I don't know if that is a flat fee or calculated some other way (e.g. per drink). Either way there is overhead associated with the Crawl stopping there. That should still not be a reason to markup drinks. They should think of it as what they call a loss leader in the industry. That is you sell something at a loss or little to no profit and hope to make up the loss on the back-end with higher volume sales at normal markup. This is the whole idea around Happy Hours. Now if bars already have a happy hour special which is a loss leader and then are losing on added overhead because of the crawl, I can see where that could make it difficult to recoup the losses because the pub crawlers aren't going to stick around after happy hour and have full price drinks.
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Nobody is demanding a higher standard of accuracy. Doing business is difficult enough in Jamaica not to have someone "slander" a business operator's reputation with second-hand suss.
*EDIT* This post was edited (by 4 whole words) for certain members who demand a higher standard of accuracy. No offense (or cuteness) intended!*EDIT*
Whether you were "accurate" in attributing this innuendo to a few people you know or not, it is totally unnecessary to even pass it on in the first place.
I have seen many businesses get mashed up by smear campaigns intended to do so or not.
I would have just accepted that you were trying to be "cute" because that would seem less malicious. If you meant "no offense" then "no offense" is taken by me. I guess that would be Lenbert's decision to accept your apology.
Just sayin.
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The crawl is fun if you're new to the west end or want to introduce a newbie to it. After that I'd suggest just doing your own "crawl" once you know "the lay of the land". You'll have more time to enjoy the places you like and not have to keep moving on to different places you don't find as enticing.
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