I do hope that you get a chance to check out the beach. Negril is to be experienced. The beach at the Grand Palladium aint much.Originally Posted by gdbear65
I do hope that you get a chance to check out the beach. Negril is to be experienced. The beach at the Grand Palladium aint much.
Absolutely - Samsara runs a shuttle to Legends daily - looking forward to checking out 7 Mile Beach - just glad our accommodations are on the cliff. Grand Palladium was horrible - i would never recommend it.
We spent 4 nights on the beach this yr at Idle. The dog guy came there for quite awhile. A lady gave the dogs water. We actually seen less hustling this trip . Seen the usual guys but no hassle . It was pretty nice.
We have noticed an uptick in police presence on the beach. The horses and the motorcycle drug peddler are scarcer than before. Now if only they would patrol the sidewalk as well.
My only question is, what ever happened to "investigative reporting"? Seems anyone can write into a news paper these days, say anything they want, true or untrue, and the news papers can put that on their headlines. I think the prudent thing for the Observer to do in this case is to send a reporter to Negril and see for themselves what is being reported. Seriously folks, "the beach is overrun run with pimps, prostitutes, and hustlers, and drug dealers". And my favorite part of the article, "we could not walk for more than two minutes without someone offering us drugs". Come on, where is the investigative reporting and why would the Observer even print something that is so defamatory to Negril and Negril Beach without out even checking out for themselves. If they did in fact send someone out to check on this story, they would see that the beach is not overrun by pimps, prostitutes, and hustlers. The beach is overrun by tourists. Oh, many be a few hustlers here and there but overrun, I think not. This is coming from a guy that spent, a least a little time on the beach almost ever single day, November and December and was not, I repeat not, approached every 2 minutes by a drug dealer.
I don't buy ganja so the guy (ganja on wheels) with the motor scooter is a little annoying especially when he drives at speed down the beach. He pulled into a little bar I was at (at high speed) drove in and around the people in the lounge chairs, drove up to the bar area, where I thought the owner was going to give him hell for driving on his beach. Nope, owner bought some weed from him and gave him a drink. Bottom line....as long as there is demand, the drug dealers, prostitutes, and hustlers will be there. Perhaps if we removed "the demand", then the they would go away, oh wait, the demand is from the tourists.
-Message to the author of the over embellished letter the The Observer; If you don't like it here, don't come.
-Message to The Observer; If someone writes a report about something they may have or may not have seen, check it out first before you write an article that may bring harm to the tourist industry.
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