Quote Originally Posted by EdmontonGuy View Post
Pineapple is getting pretty low down when it comes to AI. We stayed there 3 weeks last February and the food got monotonous after the first week. They were out of hard liquor some brand or the other every day. Guests were not happy and were complaining about it. We drink beer - and hated the draft (Red Stripe - watered down) they had on tap...and would go to Alfred's and pay for bottles or buy them across the street and drink them. We ended up eating 50% of our meals out over all. We always had breakfast there for convenience. But for many lunch & dinner's we went out - spending more to eat. For us the only meal we really needed was breakfast as it gets us going. We have stayed non AI in Negril before many times so our experiment with Pineapple was a good lesson in "if its not broke don't fix it".
First of all I'm jealous you can go for 3 weeks, but personally any A/I food would get old to me after one week, including a 5 star resort. I think most people that go to GP do it with intention of not eating every meal there as the selection is very limited. And I still stand by my comment that I believe GP is better than Merrills. If you want quality A/I on long beach stay at CSA, you get what you pay for, but I'm with you, non A/I is very doable on long bay within a budget.