Share your best tip for dealing with Negril hustlers and beggars ...

[MissBlue]

co-sign negrilaholic & Cap'nD - it doesn't happen to me much at all. i never get the beggy beggy, maybe i just walk too fast or pass by before they can catch me (?) or maybe it's me that's oblivious (?). or maybe from the way i look, they can see i'm a budget traveler & it's just not worth their effort to bother with my brokeazz self (?) LOL.

and as far as the beach vendors... i don't consider it a 'hustle', just a conversation. I never buy anything, but the rare time someone does approach me, i just say 'no thanks i'm good' or 'already taken care of, thanks, wink-wink', and ppl don't pester me any farther.

Although i have had some really hilarious conversations with the ones who're willing to stay and chat.... then after that they know me and don't ask again, although we do greet each other after than, when we pass. And for the really young ones who may try to 'chat me up', i wiggle my eyebrows, screw up my face in mock disapproval, and ask them if their grandmom knows they're out there talkin to women twice their age that way .... always gets a laugh.