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hi so glad that you had a super holiday hopefully you will have got plenty of fantastic photos of the hotel any chance of you posting some on this web site many thanks in advance hoping that you can, been waiting for so long to see some decent photos.

* Edit to remove emoticons, please keep their use to a minimum to prevent the forum looking like a cartoon strip. Many Thanks. Pippy*

There are photos and video on :

http://www.sandals.co.uk

of all their resorts for starters but non-promotional photos show how it is not how Sandals want to portray it.

If you go to :

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g147311-d151461-Reviews-Sandals_Montego_Bay-Montego_Bay_Jamaica.html

there is a link to 147 candid photos of this resort.

Scubaman

Have just looked at the photos on the link scubaman, most are off SMB and not SRC. The standards at SRC would apper to be far superior.

Tony

You are right I have ****** up the right link to 81 photos is :

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g147311-d150720-Reviews-Sandals_Royal_Caribbean-Montego_Bay_Jamaica.html

Oops

Scubaman

Thats better scubaman, the pictures to the link are far better than mine. I seem to have a dark mark on all mine, not sure why. The one of the bottles on optic are standard in every room, swallow tail boat was the same boat we were taken out on for diving. The picture of the cooking on fire is Tokyo joes at SMB, remeber to book at front desk of your Sandals hotel as soon as you get there to make sure you get a booking, took us 6 days to get in there and we didnt book untill the second week, so only managed to get in there the night befroe we left.

hi anyone out there with some recent up to date news on the sandals royal caribbean must be someone

Scubaman

So close now to you going i cant wait to go back. Have a great time and will check back after you return to see if it lived up to our hol to Royal Carribean, Montego Bay. If you get to go diving with the Sandals dive team, a big hello to Damion, armstrong, terminator, and the rest of the crew. Damion will proberly remember i gave him my flip phone.

Have a great one

Well we got home on Friday after 2 weeks at Sandals in Jamaica, although not the one we were supposed to go to !

On arrival at Mobay airport First Choice directed us round to the Sandals Lounge and Christopher said I will see you tomorrow as I will be your rep at Sandals Inn. When we got to the Sandals Lounge they told us we had been upgraded to Sandals Whitehouse, to which we said "Where is that ?" At this stage we were somewhat miffed to find that we had a 1.5 hour transfer right across to the south of the island instead of the 5-10 minutes we had been expecting. After a 10+hour flight we were not too amused.

The transfer completely changed most of what we had planned. What's more we never saw a First Choice Rep again or had the courtesy of a phonecall from them to see how we were ! We still do not know why we could not go to the original accommodation that we had booked in August - Needless to say we were most unimpressed.

Sandals Whitehouse is excellent but rather isolated. It is the only Sandals in Jamaica that they have actually built, the other 6 have all been bought and rebranded apparently.

Anyway we hired a car for 2 days and visited the Rocklands Bird Sanctuary at Anchovy ( near Mobay ) and visited all 4 Sandals in Mobay and Negril. At Rocklands you can hand feed the gorgeous Streamertail and other species of hummingbirds - Absolutely stunning.

We also did the Dunns River Falls trip, which was an extra 2 hours each way from Whitehouse than it would have been from Mobay ( and resulted in bruised bums from the hard seats and potholed roads ), and visited Sandals Ocho Rios so we visited 5 of the other 6 Sandals.

Best of the 6 ( judged on visits of around 1-2 hours per site ) were :

Whitehouse ( spacious grounds and a French Patisserie - very fattening ! )
Ocho Rios ( beautiful good sized grounds ) and Royal Caribbean. Followed by Mobay, Sandals Inn and Negril.

Both Negril and MoBay Sandals are on narrow strips sandwiched between a road and the sea. In the case of Mobay the end of the runway where the planes take off is just across this road so it is pretty noisy at times. The Royal Caribbean is about another mile further on so they are several hundred feet up by the time they get there.

Sandals Negril lost points as the both Gents toilets I visited were full of mosquitos - for which there is no excuse in my book.

End of part 1 - more to follow later inc a review of Sandals Whitehouse.

Scubaman

Hi Scubaman

Many thanks for part one of your trip report!

I've requested the hotel be added to the reviews section.
If anyone would like to see where Scubaman stayed, HERE'S the website.

Pippy

Sandals Whitehouse added to reviews section HERE.

Pippy

Scubaman,

Just read your review, sorry to hear about your woes. Look forward to reading the rest of your review. Apart from that they do tend to look after you though didnt they. As for reps, as soon as you book into Sandals you wont see a rep as the Sandals organization take over. Reps arnt allowed on site i belive.

anyone been out here lately so that they can give an update and their views on sandals royal caribbean - we are due to visit there on 24 may and would like to hear some positive feedback

Hi......I would just like to add that I have been to Sandals Montego Bay, next to the airport and it didnt bother us one bit! I admit its odd to start off with but after the first day you dont even notice it. And as for planes disturbing you at night.......well we NEVER had a problem with this, not once! I just wanted to say his as it is a wonderful place to visit and I dont think people should be so put off from the fact that it is next to the airport as it really isnt tha big a deal!
Luv Squeeky xxxxx

Well Just got back from a Surprise holiday to this resort.

What have I got to say:

1 I will never do Sandalls again, what a rip off. I have stayed at 4 different hotels in Mexico and they knock spots of this place.

2 Pay £4500 for a week for two and have planes flying over your head, they forgot to mention that one.

3 Swimming in the lovely carribean sea, but its roped off after about 10 metres

4 Pokey dark rooms, we had a luxury beachfront with Butler service. Hmm 3ft baths, plastic shower curtain, gapping holes in the tiles/

I'm sorry I have never moaned about a holiday before but if thats what Sandalls can offer they can keep it.

Roll on April 2007, back to Mexico in the Royal Suite of the Occidental.
Sandalls if you read this go and visit the Occidental Royals suite you have a lot to learn.

Welcome to HT!

I'm sorry you had such a disappointing holiday

I'd be grateful if you'd copy your review HERE when you have time.

Many thanks.

Pippy