can be found by clicking on the link below!
http://negril.com/nt/nt071613.htm
So, why do you visit Negril?
can be found by clicking on the link below!
http://negril.com/nt/nt071613.htm
So, why do you visit Negril?
Negril.com - For the vacation that never ends!
Breakfast and a morning swim at Xtabi..... That alone is reason enough to visit Negril....
In the mid seventies it was fun, sun, food, naked women and good weed! it that has changed something is wrong. Those that came and fell in love with negril and went on to purchase properties have become everything that was not Negril. Rob supports the wishes of his clients as his job warrants. but negril was never anything but the former. Any sway from that theme is a lie!
Negril was NEVER as you describe. It was a sleepy fishing village for at least 100 years and all that other stuff started after the hippies got there. When I got there in '69 weed, nudity were nonexistent or at least not spoken of.Originally Posted by georgelenard
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Captain Dave
Fred Stripe seemed to hit it right on the head George. And Captaind, who arrived in Negril prior to you proves Fred's statement. Captaind can blame your mid 70's crowd for changing Negril, but he doesnt because he knows better. Change happens. Time marches on...
There is nothing any more "wrong" with Negril now than there was when your mid 70's crowd came in and changed this small fishing village long before those who you choose to blame for changing Negril. Change is inevitable as Fred said, and you and your mid 70's crowd have to share the blame for that change as much as anyone else.
Here are some pics from the late 50's when they were shooting the Disney film 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
I dont see any "naked women and good weed" around Kirk Douglas, an Oscar nominee and being No.17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male screen legends in American film history. If there were always naked women around as you claim, I am sure Kirk have been surrounded by them! (grin)
In these pics from 1959, you dont see any establishments at all, not even huts. And certainly no people having fun in the sun or feasting on food. Just trees, sand and water (and Kirk). The things you mention didnt come until the hippies "discovered" Negril and inevitably changed Negril from a small fishing village into the resort town it is today.
When I conceived the idea of Negril.com in 1993 and created it in 1995, there was no email at all on the island. Absolutely none, not even in Kingston. There were no internet providers at all on the island and only 2 computers in Negril.
No one in Negril had seen the internet. Only a few had even seen a computer for that matter, so it would have been impossible for me to support the wishes of my clients when there werent any at all. I envisioned and created Negril.com because I knew one day the businesses in Negril would have to become part of the internet world.
By introducing them to the first computer most people saw and exposing them to the internet by spending a small fortune calling Miami on a very slow cellphone connection through TOJ (pre-Cable & Wireless days), it helped the local businesses (the vast majority Jamaican owned and operated) realize that this technology would one day play an important role in their business. And it has. There are now more places with free wifi in Negril than there are in Kingston per square kilometer.
So George, I understand that you feel a sense of loss for the way things used to be 40 years ago. As humans, we all feel that sense of nostalgia from time to time. But before calling something a lie, it is generally best to get the facts first...
Negril.com - For the vacation that never ends!
I bet the ones who came to Negril before you thought the same thing about you? Change and evolution is inevitable.
From someone who went from the early 80's until now...... the same reasons I went to Negril in the early 80's are the reasons I go now.... Robs picture is one of them....
We go for the time we can spend together away from all the normal life stuff that keeps us tied up all the time when we are not in Negril,we can be alone or with the many friends we have met in Negril and have a great time.We have been on two cruises to many islands,spent time in Cancun and in Dominican Republic and we chose Negril to be our once a year place to go,it's the feeling of the island!
Why do I visit Negril? To escape with my wife from the cold and snow of Minnesota to somewhere warm, casual and laid back. Good food, warm water, nice beach, no kids, and a tasty buzz is what we crave every December.
I've been lucky enough to travel to almost 40 countries. Only in Negril can I leave the Rat Race completely behind and just chill. Keep up the good work Rob and don't let the Blue Meanies get ya down!
Enjoy,
VVHT
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