Sandals or Rose Hill Beach Resort(Jamaica)?

[WhiteKnightPPO]

:confused: I enjoy spending time at all-inclusive resorts as excursions and I see that I have a choice of Sandals or Rose Hill Beach Resort in Jamaica. Can anyone shed some light on which might be the best choice?:confused: Thanks in advance.

[momofmeg]

I have not been to either resort but I have been there by cruise ship. that is a very poor island and they think we are all "Rich Americans" and they hike up their prices on everything. We actually found their Blue Mountain coffee for less in grand Cayman then what we were charged.

 

Even at Dunns River Falls, (which is dangerous and NOT "moderate activity") you were expected to tip the bathroom attendant $1 but actually they prefered a $5 bill-this is what they placed intheir "tip basket". this for a bathroom equal to what you would find in a state park back home.

 

I have decided if I ever take a cruise there againto just stay on ship, even Dominica, as poor as it was, we were treated better and souveniors wer not ridiculous prices.

[lovebug33]

Wow! I'm sorry you had such a bad experience in Jamaica. We stayed at a Sandals for our honeymoon. Granted, we did not go on a cruise sponsored excursion, but we loved Jamaica. However, we stayed in Negril. I don't know where the one you want to stay at is. I have heard that Negril is much less tourist oriented than Montego Bay and that Dunn's River Falls is a huge tourist trap.

[momofmeg]

Wow! I'm sorry you had such a bad experience in Jamaica. We stayed at a Sandals for our honeymoon. Granted, we did not go on a cruise sponsored excursion, but we loved Jamaica. However, we stayed in Negril. I don't know where the one you want to stay at is. I have heard that Negril is much less tourist oriented than Montego Bay and that Dunn's River Falls is a huge tourist trap.

 

That was my point! Don't leave the resort!

 

The falls were beautiful but no fun climbing them! the enjoyment of the beauty was lost for most part for me as I tried NOT to fall and get hurt! I succeeded but NEVER again. The day we were there a woman broke her arm. I learned this after I had climbed the falls-it did not surprise me one bit!

 

and the falls were no more beautiful then the ones in Domincia and Puerto Rico and certainly nothing like Niagara Falls or even Taluhah Gorge in Georgia when they run the falls there. (the gorge is there at Talluah because the falls are damned up to make electricity but once a month they run the falls )

 

 

I can't help but wonder what jerk came up with the idea that climbing the falls would be fun. I do believe the cruiselines should let people know it is dangerous and not moderate activity. I also think an alternate excurssion should be offered for those who only want to view them.

 

but better yet, pick another island! As I said other islands I may would do an all inclusive, but never Jamacia.

[agabbymama]

I took my 20 year old daughter to Jamaica in 1988. I was 40. We climbed the Dunn's River Falls, and I certainly didn't think it was dangerous. You are advised to have on a bathing suit, water shoes or tennis shoes and to be careful of your footing. Unfortunately my daughter had on sandals, so she couldn't do the climb. There was a path up the side she was able to climb without getting in the water. I thought it was great fun, and at one point had my photo taken standing with the falls cascading around me. Is it different now?

 

While I agree I didn't care that much for Jamaica. When you realize their annual salary is $2000, if you can afford a cruise or vacation at $1000 per person, that definitely makes you a lot wealthier than most Jamaicans. I found it as poor as Mexico and in some cases worse. Little kids giving you their names and address on pieces of paper asking you to send them shoes, clothes, school supplies, etc. Then the men in Montego Bay, seeing two females with no escort, thought we were free game. Even a policeman, a bartender at the hotel wanted to come back to our room and when my daughter said she was sharing the room with her Mother, he said we could do a threesome, and one man on the street kept following my daughter from shop to shop and actually walked right up to her and was quite vulgar, then asked her to marry him so he could come to the U.S. I think she got about 20 proposals, and I got 5 myself. We returned to the hotel and didn't venture into town again. It was not a very enjoyable vacation. Jamaica, the island is beautiful as all Caribbean or South Pacific Islands are.

 

In 2004, returned to the Caribbean on Empress of the Seas cruise out of Puerto Rico. We went to St. Martin and St. Thomas. Don't think I will be returning to the Caribbean. It's just not my cup of tea. Sandals was nice, but I hear Rose Hill Beach Resort is very luxurious. Just stay on their property, don't go wandering around on your own!:eek:

[momofmeg]

I took my 20 year old daughter to Jamaica in 1988. I was 40. We climbed the Dunn's River Falls, and I certainly didn't think it was dangerous. You are advised to have on a bathing suit, water shoes or tennis shoes and to be careful of your footing. Unfortunately my daughter had on sandals, so she couldn't do the climb. There was a path up the side she was able to climb without getting in the water. I thought it was great fun, and at one point had my photo taken standing with the falls cascading around me. Is it different now?

 

While I agree I didn't care that much for Jamaica. When you realize their annual salary is $2000, if you can afford a cruise or vacation at $1000 per person, that definitely makes you a lot wealthier than most Jamaicans. I found it as poor as Mexico and in some cases worse. Little kids giving you their names and address on pieces of paper asking you to send them shoes, clothes, school supplies, etc. Then the men in Montego Bay, seeing two females with no escort, thought we were free game. Even a policeman, a bartender at the hotel wanted to come back to our room and when my daughter said she was sharing the room with her Mother, he said we could do a threesome, and one man on the street kept following my daughter from shop to shop and actually walked right up to her and was quite vulgar, then asked her to marry him so he could come to the U.S. I think she got about 20 proposals, and I got 5 myself. We returned to the hotel and didn't venture into town again. It was not a very enjoyable vacation. Jamaica, the island is beautiful as all Caribbean or South Pacific Islands are.

 

In 2004, returned to the Caribbean on Empress of the Seas cruise out of Puerto Rico. We went to St. Martin and St. Thomas. Don't think I will be returning to the Caribbean. It's just not my cup of tea. Sandals was nice, but I hear Rose Hill Beach Resort is very luxurious. Just stay on their property, don't go wandering around on your own!:eek:

 

I have found both Cozumel and Nassau are pretty good at pressuring you to buy things but nothing like Jamacia and Dominica was so poor it broke my heart-but people did not see tourists as potential gold mines-the way they do in Jamacia.

 

I understand the country is very poor. I just don't want to be fleeced . but there are islands I did enjoy st. thomas, St Marten, Grand Cayman, Belize, Martinique.

 

I haven't been to Turk and Caicos but my husband has and he liked that island. all of these islands I have mentioned are not filled with poor starving people or agressive salespeople wanting to rip you off.

 

My favorite island though is Bermuda and that is not in the caribbean.