Having vented, I hope you feel better - it is not necessary to name the hotel. Who knows what all the circumstances or outside issues that my have contributed to this problem. As for giving the driver the $50? You took the high road and GOOD for you. Chances are if he had to make a return trip empty, the gas money would have been out of his pocket anyway so what you did was a blessing. Consider it a deposit in your KARMA BANK. It will come back to you many times over.

I hope you and your mom had a blast. I never got to do such things with my Mom - May she Rest in Peace... she didn't travel too easy. But I did get to have a long weekend in Negril with my daughter. She now knows why I go. Especially since she came back to Negril on her honeymoon the following year.

PEACE & BLESSINGS