Just getting back around to this. thanks to all ya'll for contributing, will be helpful to anybody looking for basic affordable lodging.

So as much as I love to beach camp, I'm most def in agreement that Negril might not be the place for it at this point in time, and I probly knew that already but was grasping at strings cause dang, it's been 2 years and I just wanna be there!! Wish I coulda been around 20 years ago cause that would have been so cool.

Anyways......found a cabin for 40 something a night and i reckon that's about as low as I'm going to find so i'll just roll with it. Might try and split the stay so I'm still gonna check out some of ya'lls suggestions for cliff properties.