03-16-2015, 03:56 AM
I always (fairly) feel exceptionally safe in the West End. I wasn't able to go this year... Rastagirl in Cali, I think you might remember where I stay, I think three doors down from you. Because I pay cheaply I am most of the time there without any night time security but have never had a problem. I do sometimes feel uneasy. I also love to go to the reggae shows and just go outside of my gate and (usually) get an Orange Hill no-red-plate taxi driver, picking up hotel workers, to take me to where I want to go. When I am staying long term and need a cheap place to stay it's Ocean Edge seafront -- I definitely feel a little bit "creeped out" there, the security guards seem scared to death. I have never had a problem there, other than the water pressure. Big up respect to the Canadian national long term resident plumber though. Ocean Edge is his worst nightmare but he always shows up no matter what.
Any west end visitors, please let me know your take on the crime. I moved there in 1972, leasing the house between O'Leary's & Dennis Lynch and lived there for many years. The West End back then was a really quiet place. So quiet a vehicle passing by was really rare, though the blue "ice truck" came through once a week. The area was pretty much one of the safest places on earth in those times.
Westenders, please let me know your feelings on the safety in the area. I want to bring an extended family entourage, including very young children and very old adults.... most of whom are not "sun loving" people. I have been considering this place, whose name I can't recall right now -- it's about a mile or so past the Lighthouse, owned by people in Baltimore, I think the places name starts with a "T". Oh, Tingalaya. Any thoughts on the safety up there?
So because I started to come to Negril in the early 1970's we hung out at what we called "Rutland Point" before they built the horrid Hedonism. I know at the end of the point there are some condo's that are regularly for rent. I am half way thinking of going this route. My entourage involves people from four years old to ninety years old. And then thinking again, the west end is most likely not the way to go, Treehouse probably good.
Any west end visitors, please let me know your take on the crime. I moved there in 1972, leasing the house between O'Leary's & Dennis Lynch and lived there for many years. The West End back then was a really quiet place. So quiet a vehicle passing by was really rare, though the blue "ice truck" came through once a week. The area was pretty much one of the safest places on earth in those times.
Westenders, please let me know your feelings on the safety in the area. I want to bring an extended family entourage, including very young children and very old adults.... most of whom are not "sun loving" people. I have been considering this place, whose name I can't recall right now -- it's about a mile or so past the Lighthouse, owned by people in Baltimore, I think the places name starts with a "T". Oh, Tingalaya. Any thoughts on the safety up there?
So because I started to come to Negril in the early 1970's we hung out at what we called "Rutland Point" before they built the horrid Hedonism. I know at the end of the point there are some condo's that are regularly for rent. I am half way thinking of going this route. My entourage involves people from four years old to ninety years old. And then thinking again, the west end is most likely not the way to go, Treehouse probably good.