Manda's first trip to jamaica sept 2011

[MissBlue]

no, they can't/don't care/won't check up on that - i mean imagine it.... there's just no possible way, or reason, to actually keep 'close tabs' on every tourist and where they go once they're on the island. 'technically' the govt needs to know where you're staying, partly in case of, say, a hurricane or natural disaster, in case there becomes a need to look for (or, god forbid, identify) people, or account for them after a disaster, and it's also the 'address of record' they would use for delivering lost luggage or for any potential emergency.

but typically, the information you give to the officer while standing at the immi desk, in reality usually doesn't go any farther than that -

people are always divided on what to actually write on your forms and tell the officers --- most say just always put a hotel name, because once you start getting into "i'm staying with my friend/bf/husband at their house", it opens them up to ask ALL kinds of personal questions, looking thru bags for gifts you 'MUST' be bringing, charging you duty on stuff - even if it's really not a gift but for your own use, etc etc. Anything is possible although it of course doesn't always happen. Others always put the true yard address and take their chances, cause they feel it's better the govt knows where they really are, in case the info is ever needed.