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For The Safety Of Their Customers Should British Travel Firms Offer A Full Refund On Holidays Book For Jamaica?
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/// my brother and his wife did a tour of the island, with a Jamaican guide and apparently they had a wonderful day. ///
Taking into consideration the cost of holidaying there, I would expect more than one wonderful day.
Being confined to one's holiday complex must be most boring.
Perhaps okay for those who just want to lay by the pool and drink from the bar.
/// my brother and his wife did a tour of the island, with a Jamaican guide and apparently they had a wonderful day. ///
Taking into consideration the cost of holidaying there, I would expect more than one wonderful day.
Being confined to one's holiday complex must be most boring.
Perhaps okay for those who just want to lay by the pool and drink from the bar.
I didn't mention the Canaries but am well aware you have to be on guard everywhere. Have spent last 5 Christmas holidays in Antigua which is considered one of the far safer islands but they have had 22 gun related murders in 2017, we in fact were mugged on the beach there in the middle of the day a year ago - for a beach bag that had nothing of value in whatsoever. Most of the locals are amazingly poor.
Jamaica's always been at another level of violence compared to the rest of the Caribbean. Most tourists stayed in their resorts apart from the odd organised day trip. We were told to not even go out of the hotel in Kingston (used to hire boozy boats for the day just to get away from the place) but Montego Bay wasn't quite as bad. It's obviously gone downhill a lot. I guess if the situation becomes really bad some agents might let people rebook for somewhere else but I can't see them giving refunds.
We paid off a merchant ship there around 37 years ago and were driven from the ship to the hotel and 24 hours later from the hotel to the airport. As we boarded the minibus at the dockside we were told to remove and hide any jewellery, watches and so on, NOT to use or display cameras, not to stare out of the windows and to keep the bus windows shut. We were warned that the bus would not stop anywhere until we reached our destination. The local people who we met were very friendly and apologetic. I guess the hurricane damage has made the situation worse.
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