I quite enjoy the JUTA ride, extra stops and all. since i'm solo i usually get to ride shotgun and chat with the driver, and i enjoy hearing all the happy chatter of the people in the bus as they ask questions and express their excitement about their upcoming vacation, and i kinda love the ride, passing thru Lucea, seeing and hearing all the sights and sounds, even in traffic, and hearing the driver chat and answer questions to the people on the bus about what they are seeing. For me, the second i'm on the ground my vacation has begun, not only when I arrive to Negril; so I consider that time spent on the ride as part of the vacation, not 'waiting for it to begin'.