We are getting ready to celebrate our 30th anniversary (arriving MBJ 09FEB12 for six nights), and have been researching places to stay. We'd like to find a nice private beachfront villa, but so far the ones we have found around Negril are part of a resort wedged in next to dozens of other 'villas', or ones that are staffed from 9 to 5. We are fairly private people, so the thoughts of having live-in staff, butlers, and cooks doesn't really appeal to us. We want a villa for privacy, not to share with a housekeeper, butler, maid, driver, gardener and pool man.
At first I thought, no problem- I'll just send the staff home for the week and give them a nice tip anyway, But then I read reviews that indicate that many of the managers won't allow that, insisting they come every day no matter what you want. We don't want a handful of people hanging around the villa waiting on us. If we wanted that, we could stay at any one of a dozen AI resorts. Instead, we just want a place we can sleep as late as we want, cook our own light breakfast whenever we stumble out of bed, walk to the beach whenever we feel like it without having someone staying with us from 9 to 5 every day.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
Originally Posted by brasi
