Hello All,
Longtime lurker first time poster. First a little background. First went to negril back in the 90’s with a buddy and stayed at the Negril Beach Club. The purpose of that trip was to get over a divorce and as a reward for going through a tough year of rehabilitation after having broken my back. Within 5 minutes of getting off the plane getting over the divorce was completed, I found a new love. Had a great trip and went again the following 2 years. Life’s responsibilities soon caught up to me (raising my son, paying alimony, career etc.) add to that I was broke as hell and Negril became just a beautiful memory.
Fast forward to 2010. I had remarried a few years back and wanted to share with my wife my love for Negril. Only challenge was she was raised in a sheltered family, in a very sheltered community in New England (aka prude). Now don’t get me wrong this girl can party like a pornstar, but the scene at Negril can be overwhelming for some folk at first and I didn’t want her to get turned off right away so I constructed a strategy. Ease her into the life. By that I mean, first trip was to Riu Club Negril. The AI was a very sheltered first reach. She loved the weather, the water and the people. We walked the beach, did a tour of Appleton and ran some school supplies to Grange Hill Primary. I could tell however that even though she loved all that she still didn’t quite get it. You know, the vibe.
2011, phase 2 of my plan. Another AI vacation but this time at the Riu Palace for a week. More beach walking, a quick visit to Time Square market and a little bar hopping. Surprisingly the wife was slowly coming out of her shell. She was starting to find her groove. As we left that year she looked at me and said “I think I could do 2 weeks here.” So as you can imagine I was doing the Snoopy happy dance at my great fortune.
2012, 2 weeks (Feb25th to March 10th scheduled at Riu Palace again. Here is my dilemma, while I enjoy the AI’s in other places (Dominican, Mexico, etc.) I found I had a much better time staying in the smaller more intimate resorts. I want to make this trip convince her that we don’t need to stay at an AI and that we would have a much better time in the Cliffs or on 7-mile. Please all of you experienced boardies, if you wanted to show the best that Negril has to offer in the categories of Romance, Food, Music and Bar life where would that 1 place be? Thanks for your help and I look forward to hearing from everyone. Yay me, I just popped my posting cherry!
Originally Posted by marley9808
