For a newbie only staying 4 nights, I'd suggest using the cambio in front of Bourbon Beach unless you were going to HiLo anyway (it's a little walk past the roundabout and that all can be a tad overwhelming the first time or two) From Country Country, I've walked to Bourbon Beach along the beach, stopped at the cambio in front along the street, and across to Time Square and then usually hop a route taxi back. Shamrock store is on the way back towards Treehouse on the same side of the road as Time Square, so if you need anything stop in there and then grab a taxi if you like. This is easily doable and takes care of a lot of business while still getting in a nice beach walk and not having to navigate "downtown" if you'd rather not. The ATM at Time Square is a Scotiabank. I opened an account before my last trip and used it with no extra international fees.

I hope you've printed the Negril map to look over and take along. It is a life saver the first time so that all these names/places and their locations can fall into place. http://www.maherconsulting.com/negri...Map11-2-11.pdf

Re: $ for the pub crawl, he stops at 6 or 7 places. Drinks are $3-$6 each ($6 for a fabulous dirty banana at Xtabi). When I went, they had pizza by the slice for sale at Bella Donna's at the end, $2 a slice, I believe. Then don't forget your tip $ for Lenbert.

Re: JMD, just roughly think of $100j being equal to just over $1 (about $1.12). So if something is $500j, you're paying under $6; $1000j, under $12, etc. works well for me rather than actually calculating. I've got an iPhone app that converts currency. I don't carry my iPhone around with me there, but after playing around with it, it's helped me get the idea.

Have fun, it'll be great!