I took a cheapie to Jamaica this year a week in Trelawny Beach near Mo'bay for £550.
The hotel was OK, noisy but that seems to go for everywhere in Jamaica, the food was free and that was all it was worth.
Trips were OK but the hotel couldn't arrange anyway to get up into the cockpit country (read "Halidon" to whet your appretite).
The "diving school" was poor, I think the "instructors" had blown ear drums so no deep dives to be had. I would definitley not recomend learning to dive there, the novice who dived of the boat with me (in force 5) had trouble keeping up with his instructor.
The worst thing at the hotel was the awfull visibility off the beach, after walking a mile round the bay and swimming along the reef and in I found out why. About 60 meters of the shore the hotel discharges its waste "brown water" out past this it is clear with all the usual fish.
The management claimed it was a new problem, but it was clear from the death of everything in the zone, and the old sewage pipes that used to dump it over the reef that this was not new and quite deliberate. The new pipe just stops there it was not broken.
I had a surreal discussion in reception with the manager, now you would think when discussing whether I had encounted solids they would have wanted me out of the way, but then perhaps they did not want me to drip the brown water in their office :)
I should point out that the hotel was not breaking any regulations, I checked it with the NRCA, who say that it is OK subject to length of pipe etc.
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Aug 13th, 2000
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