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30 yo black woman from US and need a temporary change of scenery. I work remotely so just need some recommendations for where to stay. Should I rent a car? Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

See, I'm a white guy with dreadlocks, I got them about four years ago because I liked Bob Marley and thought it would look cool. Lately I have heard some complaints about white people with dreadlocks (e.g. a white musician was excluded from a climate protest because of her dreads here in Germany) for being racist. What's kind of curious about it is that these complaints mainly come from white people. It feels like they're trying to patronize other cultures by telling other whites what they're allowed to "imitate" and what not. So I was wondering, what do the people whose culture I am "stealing" from think about that? Because I met a few black rastas outside Jamaica (Chicago, Amsterdam) and all of them liked my hair. It just confuses me since my motivation to get dreads wasn't racist at all.

Y pree jamaican reddit. Mi born ah foreign but mi mumma and puppa born ah yard. Mi understand patwa good good but mi family dem laugh when I try fi chat patwa. Dem say mi accent sound bad. Coming like ah joke ting. My goal is fi fix di accent ting and teach mi yute dem. Can any of unno help mi fix my pronunciation? Edit: Can a native jamaican practice patwa with me and tell me what I pronounce wrong? I'm fully immersed in the culture but never get to practice speaking it. Edit: I can offer to practice spanish with you (I'm also panamanian)

I’m biracial, and have no history or knowledge of my Afro-Caribbean heritage because I’m from an adopted family. My genealogy is Jamaica, Ghana, Nigeria. I want to know respectful ways to learn and appreciate this side of my family. Any one know a place to start? Books? Resources? Thanks in Advance.

Greetings! Making my way back to Jamaica for the first time in over 20 years. I used to visit Port Antonio quite a bit and stayed up in the hills Ochy way as well. Visiting with my wife and 10 year old son who have never been before so we’d like to do a little tour. Thinking of landing in Mo Bay and heading to Porty first, then Ochy then Negril. 3 days or so in each and trying to stay in Jamaican owned AirBnB’s etc. So, about the car. What’s the going rate for 10 days or so? Is it better to book beforehand? Who should I avoid? Will take any other tips you can pass on. Getting excited about this. One love from Canada.

Wondering if it’s possible to get to the peak if I started in Ocho Rios in the morning . The plan right now is to drive a rental from Ocho Rios leaving at 7 am and getting to Mavis bank at 9 30am . Parking somewhere there and then getting a driver up to white field hall and hiking up from there. If I understand correctly from this point it’s about 7hrs up and down and it can be done without a guide during the day . Hopefully get back to the car by 6 pm and home to Ocho Rios by 8 -9 pm . Is this a realistic plan that is doable and does anyone know how much that driver would be from mavis bank or does anyone know a good person. Also where can I park in mavis bank ? Thanks in advance

I have an all inclusive trip in April to Montego Bay and I found out I am pregnant. I will be 16 weeks, doctor says it is ok to go but all the forums are scaring me saying pregnant women should not go to places with history of zika outbreaks. However, so many women get pregnant there all the time, wondering how much of a concern is it for local Jamaican women there? I plan to still use mosquito repellent and avoid forests.

I am heading to Jamaica tomorrow (I will be in both Negril and Montego Bay) and realized I have misplaced my vaccine card. I have a picture of my card, but not the actual vaccine card. Will this give me trouble anywhere? Are vaccine cards checked at all, and if so, does a photo suffice?

What's up ya'll. I apologize in advance if this is a long post or if they're dumb questions. So I finally did it! I bookee everything last month my flight and Airbnb. Jamaica has been a dream trip of mine for a long time. I fly into Kingston on March 27th and I have an Airbnb in Hellshire Beach in Portmore! I have a couple of questions in advance. What is the best way to get good currency exchange without having to pay ridiculous fees when doing it. Also how does Uber operate in Jamaica? Is it just like everywhere else or is it different. Any advice is good! Thank you and bless up!

Heading to Jamaica for the first time for 10 days in May. Staying in Montego Bay. English couple, ~30. What are the best things to do, see, experience etc? For sure going to spend some time relaxing and doing nothing, but I love experiencing culture. Any ideas? Much love. Edit : already read the posts on generous tipping. Will be partaking.

Hello. We are planning a trip to Jamaica with a few friends in January and Treasure Beach has really caught my eye. I really value experiencing the culture, cuisine, landscape of wherever I travel and from my research the St Elizabeth Parish sounds like a perfect match. For reference, we’ve done a lot of backpacking in our day and are both accustomed to all types of travel. My husband however has some concerns... 1) He’s a nature freak, loves mountains, wildlife and activity. Can’t lay around on the beach kind of person, and worries he’ll be bored staying a week here in comparison to the adventure opportunities in other areas of the island. 2) I’m pregnant as is our other friend, and we’ll be traveling with our two year old son. So he’s a bit paranoid about access to medical care in the area if one of us happens to need it. I’m not at all worried about the safety of the area otherwise. We were planning on hiring a driver to and from the airport as I read the roads aren’t the greatest. If anyone could help me persuade him about both of these issues I’d really appreciate it. Any tips about the area and recommendations on other places in Jamaica that may work for us are greatly appreciated !

This is likely going to be a long post, so I appreciate anytime you give to it, thank you. This is a big decision for me and my whole way of life, as I am sure you can imagine. With that, I really want to take the time to get into a few details about who I am and why I am doing this. To give context but also help convey how serious I am. I'm 29, and I do not have a lot of family. I have some decent friends but no sort of support system. I have been doing good on my own since I was 19. But just over this past year things have taken a turn. Being alone for so long, (actually... not even alone. More so just Lonely, If that makes sense.) It has turned me inward, I have done a lot of soul searching. Trying to do my best to be my own family. I have a lot of belief in myself but it is getting harder and harder to keep that up now-a-days. This introspection has gotten me to change, personality wise, in some areas and not in others. I have gotten rid of parts of myself I learned were hateful, angry, and just many other negative emotions. While locking on to things about myself I grew to appreciate, Take pride in, and things I want to keep around despite maybe what other say. I have come to terms with a lot about who I am, and I like myself. The reason I bring all that up is because I want to help convey where I am at in life a bit more. I am learning the people around me are not the best people to help somebody like me blossom. Which sucks, because the friends I have are some of the only "family" I have. But they do not help me to grow. Plus, I can ultimately always send them a post card. If anything they unwarily, but actively restrict me. A bigger example of this is just who I am and what I want to do in my life. I am confident I can run a business, I am confident I can be a good employee at other places of business, I am confident I could come up with many ideas to make a life for myself. Some sort of career. And not just settle on some generic 9 to 5 job. I'd like to make it clear that I am not blaming the people around me or anything. I Just realize it is side-effect from me being who I am in this environment. But this space that I am in... I can't evolve. I am never "seen", if that makes sense. I do not have people around me with the ambition I have, and I don't know where to find that in a place near me that I trust. Which brings me to another side of this, I am an America. If that wasn't obvious already. I don't really like my country. Not in a very negative personal way, It just doesn't fit what I want to be. I can't get a 9 to 5 job for 40 years and just be happy. I can't be in a society that is so one-track minded on what it means to be a functioning member of society. I want to go against the grain and find my own way. And of course, Doing things this way anywhere is bound to make things harder, I understand that. But in America you actively get mocked for being anything different. The political system is so extreme and uncommunicative. It just isn't the country I want to call home, and it isn't a country I have any sort of motivation to do anything like; Be a employee for a company that only see's you as a number, Or to start my own business, Or to do anything motivating on top of everything else I have been talking about. It is just a heavy mix of a ton of things that feel wrong to me. And I know I don't need to feel this way. I just want to find some people who are like minded in some aspects. Which is where you all come into play. Your country and what I hear about it sounds amazing. The people, the people sound PERFECT. Of course, this is a very subjective way to look at a whole country. But based of the way I see people who actually live there, the way they talk and react, I am confident I would be happy there. I am a very equal opportunity type of person, I am on Team Humanity at the end of the day. Your equal view on gender, is so refreshing and makes me happy because I am kind of shy, haha. So honestly, I would think an environment like that would make things more comfortable for somebody shy like me. I have also heard, you all tell people how it is. You don't sugar coat things for the sake of keeping a smile and avoiding conflict. For me, that is EVERYTHING. Meeting people who are petty, hide, and avoid everything are pretty much all the people I meet. (I'd like to make that very clear, to show how much that is lacking here in America. Even if I had no money, no skills or anything. This fact alone, about not sugar coating things, would be enough for me to move their and risk homelessness) Along with many other aspects about your country and culture I am starting to really like. Anymore insight into the type of culture and philosophies you all have, would be VERY appreciated. So in a bit of a summary, From age 19 onward I have been going super fast. (With no family, and some friends far off in the distance, as from age 19 - 27 I traveled a lot. Just trying to figure out life on my own. With a few small pit stops and bumps along the way.) I figured it out enough to get stable and finally take time to REALLY think about everything, about mainly who I am and what I want in life. With that, over this past year, things really started to get weird for me. I got depressed and secluded, but I also grew. I realized a lot about myself. I grew to appreciate myself, that I want a better life, and I don't want to be lonely anymore. But then I came to the realization that I can not stay where I am at and continue to grow the way I need/want to grow. I need a healthy more supportive environment. So... I took stock of places in my country and realized I basically hate my country now, too. To which my search continued outside of the country and I have finally landed on Jamaica. After tons of consideration about culture, the people, the climate, and the economics of all the places I looked into, I have landed on you all. None of the other places I looked into spoke to me the way your country is. So I would really like to be apart of it. And now for some of the more practical and/or tangible things about my situation that should effect all this. I'll start with the more bad, and go into the more positive aspects. First, I do not like to drive. But I have already talked about so many things I am not going to get into why. Just know it is serious for me and I have figured it out in every other place I have been without having a car, it does not bother me. (Being a bit more healthy and getting a bicycle and traveling a few miles to work is normal and I like it) Secondly, I do have money saved up to likely be able to stay in Jamaica comfortably for 6-12 months but not much more outside of that. I would like to start/create something within that time frame. Whether it be finding a job for a respectable company or creating my own company with something I can bring to the table, or working with a group of people with the same ambitions as me to come up with a career/business. Thirdly, I have a dog but looking into it, that is going to just be a lot of paperwork, ultimately. So not sure how much that is a problem or not. As for some of the more positive aspects; If I find a company I respect, I am super loyal and ambitious. I just need to know my work is going towards something positive and I will get whatever needs to be done, done. I worked in mobile tech support for over 4 years. I had other, more manual labor type jobs, sprinkled around when I was younger. I am very familiar with computers. So manual labor or a desk job doesn't bother me either way. As I said, Ultimately I want to work for a good company. With that idea still in mind, the best way I would want to solve this would be just making my own sort of income/job/business. So I am very ambitious toward that. If I happen to get lucky, working for some sort of ambitious start-up company would be ideal. I have good leadership skills, and a good leader also knows how to follow/work with a team. I know how to grow weed, and shrooms (if that is important or not?). I am passionate and waiting for a chance to break into something more creative and idea orientated. (I am also a night owl) ((Oh I am also A guy and white. If that matters in anyway)) (((Oh-Oh and I lost my job to Covid, so I am not currently working right now))) All of that was more so a "just in case" kind of thing. Ultimately what I am looking for is more-so just like minded people, rather than some job. I am confident if I just found a good environment with good people, I would be able to figure out the money side of things easily for myself. Too wrap things up, I liked to just express the main purpose of this post. I am looking for any sort of help to help me reach this goal of moving to Jamaica, In any sort of form. Even criticism, as I am sure many people would just consider me crazy. So as long as you can give me a reason or something, I am happy to hear it. Other, more positive things I was considering/hoping for was; Ways I can find people I can vibe with and ultimately lay down some quality roots to have a quality support system. As well as, People for connections. People I could contact and talk to for a possible job, living arrangement, and other quality of life things I would need to learn. Advice on any part of this process, advice on any part of Jamaica specifically, advice on the culture. Reassurance that maybe I am not crazy, and that you all are pretty cool people. Advice on types of jobs I could look into? Jobs I would be qualified for and maybe just jobs in general. I would love if any of you reached out for me to able to contact you more openly. For me to ask questions, for you to ask questions, and whatever else. I will literally be flying blind here in so many ways. I do understand the risks, which is a bit part of this, honestly. I do good under pressure and I want to experience the culture shock. I want to shock my comfort system to force myself to doing things I know I will be proud of. So if you could try to take all this into consideration and come up with anything to help me out, I would appreciate it. Thank you for your time.

Looking for June/July honeymoon earlier the better. Aiming for earlier in June. We're looking for good drinks and just relaxing after the wedding. Budget is no more than 500 night. Postcard beach with chairs is a must. Closer to the air port would be nice. We're looking at Sandals Montego bay or Excellence. Any other places or recommendations? Any input on those 2 resorts?

I have a trip with my gf planned the week of Easter and have been reading some bad reviews, and bad reports from friends that the resorts they stayed at have been terrible. In specifics, the Grand Palladium Lady Hamilton. We are thinking of changing our itinerary to a different resort; anyone have any recent experiences? Maybe travel elsewhere in the Caribbean? EDIT: we have rebooked and are now staying at the Iberostar Rose Hall

I heard you can get it in supermarkets, is that true? Went to a shop at Devon house and it was very expensive but I’m not sure if that’s normal price or not.

Hi, I’m invited to a wedding in the fall at the Grand Palladium & Lady Hamilton resort in Jamaica. I’ve been seeing a lot of bad reviews for this resort and I was looking for some more opinions on it? I was hoping to find some people who have stayed their recently that can comment on if it is as bad as the reviews make it out to be. I sort of find it hard to believe it’s THAT bad but maybe I’m just desperate for a vacation haha. Thanks!

So I want to go on a vacation to Negril with my girlfriend but I am not vaccinated. Is this a problem to go to Jamaica? And I heard of the resilient corridor, is it still in effect or not anymore? If it is, can I still go outside of it or Also is Negril nice? How much should I be expecting to pay for food on a day to day basis? There's no food with the hotel package so..

I’m going to Montego Bay next week for 6 days and I want to know what is the best things to do there? Do you guys have some tips for travelers? I’m staying at the Hilton inclusive resort, if you have any insight on that as well. ***The airport strike has ended

How’s it going? Are y’all finding quality men/woman?

I recently returned from a trip to Jamaica. I stayed at a resort in Montego Bay. The staff there was very nice and I believe they were genuinely friendly, but there were things I wondered about. For example, several staff members told us they commute over 90 minutes to work, and only get one day off per week when the resort is full. I understand that the Jamaican economy depends a lot on tourism and that the tips that you stand to earn at a high-end resort probably result in those employees making good money, but it's hard work dealing with a lot of entitled attitudes of guests. Obviously it's hard to get a real sense of that just staying at a walled-off resort in a touristy area. I'm just wondering what the general attitude is there about tourists from the United States. What do they really think about them?