But they'll believe a complete stranger?? LOL Ah well...

The beach at the RIU Palace really is fantastic, at the RIU Negril it's just okay. The RIU palace is newer and I think a little smaller. We took a walk up to the RIU Negril and found that is was more crowded, there were more kids and it just wasn't as nice as the Palace. We didn't spend a lot of time there, but that was what we thought.. One of the guys in our group grabbed a towel (it was ratty around the edges) to cover his head and when we got back to the Palace the towel guy was shocked "where did you get that?" he asked, took the towel, threw it out and gave him a fresh one.

We did get a drink and the booze seemed to be "lower end" than the Palace; can't comment on the food because we didn't eat there.