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Negril - Jamaica |
Here are a few trip reports submitted by
some of our clients. |
| November 2008 - H.G. |
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The people and food were great. The weather
was terriffic. The entertainment was good but the music was so loud it made
your ears bleed.
The nude beach is too small and you can only go nude on
the beach. Unless you have a room on the bottom floor with outside doors on the
nude beach side you cannot even go from your room to the beach without clothes.
If you really like to go nude, this is not the place. With such a restricted
nude area, they should restrict it to nude use only. There were way too many
people wearing clothes on the nude beach.
CASTAWAYS NOTE re Grand Lido Negril comments: The
area in question is called a clothing optional beach. Nudity is not mandatory.
Rooms that area adjacent to the clothing optional beach are called "Cove"
rooms. The main beach which is 3 times the size is on the opposite side of the
resort. |
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| 2008 - A.S. |
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The service from the minute we arrived at
the airport super clubs desk to the departure was excellent. The resort was
everything promised and more. We loved the activities and the food was superb.
Our only complaint was that we did not stay long enough to take advantage of
the optional excursions. Thanks for a wonderful, relaxing stay. A S |
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| February 2004 - Jeff Burk |
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Thank you for recommending Grand Lido
Negril for our first Clothing Optional experience. It took us about five
minutes to become quite comfortable and satisfied with the entire resort. The
people we met in clothing optional pool, beach and commons areas were friendly,
but not too friendly. There was a steady rotation of new faces every day, with
the average stay about five days.
We had requested "up scale" and Grand
Lido Negril certainly is. The food was always great and sometimes diner was
"extraordinary". Most mornings one of us walked down for the continental
breakfast at the Au Natural pool and brought the other a plate back to the
room. Daily Lamb chops at the pool for lunch was a nice touch. By the end of
our stay… we actually ordered cheeseburgers instead.
The newly
renovated rooms were very nice, but a little dark and not quite five star. The
view was great.
Clearly the prude pool and beach are better facilities.
It is in this area that all water sports begin.
The disco was mostly
empty, simply due to the poor dance facilities… whereby three pillars
split the floor into small sections. However, we did get our fill of dancing in
the early evenings on the main show floor, in front of the nightly live
entertainment.
The whole concept of "all inclusive" was handled
incredibly well. Our bill at checkout was less than $15 for three telephone
calls back to the USA. That's it! Any time we wanted… anything… the
staff was ready to accommodate. Water Skiing, Kayak, Lamb Chops, Drinks,
Laundry… etc. It just didn't matter what we asked for… the staff was
ready to serve.
We ended our trip with a cruise. With the exception of
visiting a different port every day… the "all inclusive" resort is
incredibly better than a cruise (plus drinks). I see less cruises in our
future.
We will be a repeat customer of Castaways Travel... and Grand
Lido. |
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| January 1998 - Wayne & Ann |
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Our January trip to Grand Lido Negril was
our 7th. People keep asking us why we keep going back and the reason are
simple. We just haven't found any place else we would rather be. We also like
Grand Lido Braco, but we still prefer Grand Lido Negril.
There were some
things that were starting to bother us about GL, but it was great to get there
this year and find all of those things fixed. They have completely redone the
buffet area in the Terazzo so they can offer a better selection of food and
keep it hotter or colder as the need may be. Also they have completely redone
the bar at the C/O pool, hot tub area, and added some snacks out there too.
This was much needed.
We were also happy to see that they had completely
redone the room we were in. New tile on the floor, new AC, new paint, etc. The
room really looked good. We always try to stay in a ground floor room on the
C/O side. From the ground floor rooms you can walk directly out of your room
onto the beach, and the view out of your room on the C/O side, is one of the
most beautiful you can find anywhere.
The food was back up to the
previous GL standards on this trip and we also noticed that they "unofficially"
had relaxed the slacks only rule for the Cafe Lido. We saw lots of men in
shorts there, and they have also added more tables outside if you prefer to eat
there. The Piacere was the best ever, so we went there a few extra times this
year.
Even though the resturants are great, we still enjoy to sit in
the buff on our patio, or in the hot tub, and order us up a few orders of lamb
chops from room service. We have been known to do this for several days in a
row as there is never a need to get dressed that way!!! <G>
The
entertainment was a bit sedate (as usual) as was the disco. (as usual, except
on PJ night) So we headed over to Hedo (as usual) for Toga & pajama nights.
We also go over to Hedo to take the nude catamaran trip out of there.
On
this trip Wayne only went scuba diving once, which is rare for him, he just
chose to relax more this year.
We look forward to getting back to GL
soon, but not sure when as of yet... maybe the summer of 99. |
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| August 1997 - Sandi I. |
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We were looking for something tropical and
romantic to help us celebrate our ten year anniversary. We also wanted to stay
where they had a clothing optional beach. Grand Lido was all we had wanted and
more. Tthe beaches and water are beautiful! the resort is definatly 5 star. And
the people of grand lido that serve you while you are there are geat! My
husband and I spent 90% of our time on the nude beach. Each time you walked up
to the bar that was at the nude pool, he new exactly what we were drinking and
had it ready in an instant. And they are so friendly!! When we had originally
planned our trip... we were going to do it all, snorkle, scuba, windsail,
horseback, etc... but we were so relaxed and felt so comfortable on the beach,
we just vegitated for a whole week. It was great!! I would highly recommend
this place! and cant wait to visit it again... maybe for our 15th anniversary
thats just around the corner! |
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