Jamaica

Everything I know, I learned from punk.

Bro it comes down to the simple fact what race of people do they claim to descend from?

You just really have to know where/who to travel with here. You were staying at a piece of shit resort, it's no surprise you had a shitty time. I've been to Jamaica 20+ times, it's beautiful and the people are awesome. My family used to own a house there where we would bring our employees on vacation to, we hired a maid service that was awesome that we never had any problems with (obviously this isn't the same experiences everyone will have), also we stayed at the Franklyn D. all inclusive resort multiple times, hands down was some of the best time in my life visiting there, went scuba diving, walked up waterfalls, met some of the nice locals.

I would suggest going to Jamaica for literally anyone, you just have to be careful where you go. It IS a third world country and all.
FDR was one of the only all inclusive resorts that was well worth it. Last time I went I was 16, my brother and I just walked around the resort getting massively drunk on free alcohol, chilling by the grill and having a 70 year old Jamaican dude make us jerked chicken, went scuba diving for free, fishing on the beach, sleeping with these two chicks from England.

Anyone else been to Jamaica recently? The wife and I and a couple we know are going to Couples Negril in may. I've heard great things about Jamaica but terrible things about Montego Bay in general.

Harfle_sl said:

Bro it comes down to the simple fact what race of people do they claim to descend from?

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Hahaha.

Do your friends pay for your airfare? You're going to a lot of places...a lot. Lol.

Jamaica is probably the most overrated vacation destination imaginable. Filthy, crime ridden, lazy beyond lazy attitude when it came to service, and if you're going for the weed you can get it on other islands as well. I went once about ten years back and my experience was very similar to what you describe. To be honest with you the service generally sucks on all the islands, with the exception of the Grand Caymans, St-Barts, and to a lesser extend St-Kitts. But Jamaica is pretty much the worse place I've been from a service/organization standpoint. Even fucking Haiti was better when I went.

Service was kind of like that on Moorea, French Polynesia. Well, the "I'm going to take my sweet ass time," attitude, that is.

Only time I went to an all inclusive was in Cancun and I thought the staff was very friendly and very quick

Also destination weddings are for arrogant fucks who think its cool to expect you to pay thousands to attend their god damned party

I always viewed destination weddings as a method to weed out those that don't really want to show up at your wedding in the first place. The one's that groan when they see the wedding invite, know they have to attend, and are already calculating how soon they'll the able to bail-- basically me. A destination wedding invite to me is a get out of jail free card.. There's probably nothing I hate more than going to a wedding and will heartily admit I prefer funerals-- at least I'm not expected to walk around with a fake smile on my face making polite conversation with 100 distant relatives I haven't seen since I was 10 years old.

Frenzied Wombat_sl said:

I always viewed destination weddings as a method to weed out those that don't really want to show up at your wedding in the first place. The one's that groan when they see the wedding invite, know they have to attend, and are already calculating how soon they'll the able to bail-- basically me. A destination wedding invite to me is a get out of jail free card.. There's probably nothing I hate more than going to a wedding and will heartily admit I prefer funerals-- at least I'm not expected to walk around with a fake smile on my face making polite conversation with 100 distant relatives I haven't seen since I was 10 years old.

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But what about close family that are basically required to attend? I find it a dick move. Some people don't have the means to go on a great vacation but really would like to attend the wedding. Destination weddings are a giant middle finger to those people. Back in college my cousin got married destination style and I was a strained college student. Now I had to come up with the cash to get to her wedding to go to a place I didn't even feel like vacationing in. I find it completely uncool.

I still find it pretty egocentric to have a destination wedding. It just screams "All about us" when, I feel, weddings are just as important to your family. Sure you may not talk to Aunt Ruth all the time but she still watched you grow up and would love to attend your wedding. Well now you have to pay 4 grand. Your buddy who doesn't have quite as good a job as you but still would like to attend your day? Yeah go fuck off you poor shit. I have a different approach where I can acknowledge weddings are pretty important to the family not just the people involved. And that seems to be not too widely popular an opinion. If you don't want someone at the wedding than ball-up and simply don't invite them. Don't send this worthless gesture of an invite saying "BTW, random uncle I never talk to, this wedding is in Jamaica and will cost you 4k" just to clear your mind of "Well I invited him and he didn't come ... not my fault!"