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8th to 18th September 2025 - Jamaica trip - Sandals, Negril
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Monday 8th
September After our flight on the 7th to LHR and a night in the The Thistle Hotel, we got a late checkout, so walked to a garden centre a few km away for a lovely breakfast. And then to the airport for our afternoon Virgin Atlantic flight to Montego Bay. Arrived about 19.30, got luggage and found the Sandal's office. 6 of us got on the transport to Negril which took about one and a half hours. Very loud music in reception as band playing, but managed to check-in and find our room (5109) on the garden side. |
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| Sandals Negril | Front |
| Tuesday
9th September Buffet breakfast at the main dining area, Bayside Restaurant. Lots of cattle egrets and one snowy egret around trying to steal the food off the diners plates until the staff put out a table full of food for them to eat. Apparently they preferred sausages and bread! At 09.00 we took the orientation tour. Tried to change rooms as our patio was near to the main road and quite noisy but was too expensive so we decided to stay put. An hour on the beach with 'cocktail of the day' from Perla Bar. Lunch Bayside. Dinner at Barefoot restaurant, R had swordfish and J seafood bisque and snapper fillet. |
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| Bayside Restaurant | Cattle Egret |
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| Egrets | Snowy Egret 'The Boss' |
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| Motor 'boat' | Barefoot restaurant |
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| Julie | Ron |
| Wednesday 10th
September Breakfast at Bayside. Beach, swim and coctails. Walk across the road and found hummingbirds, called Red-billed Streamertails. Lunch Bayside. Sundowners at the Pool Bar. Dinner Bayside, R lamb shank and J duck with orange sauce. |
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| Red-billed Streamertail | White-crowned Pigeon |
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| Evening clouds | Sunset |
| Thursday 11th
September Breakfast Bayside. J took the boat out diving to Treasure Reef. Water a bit murky but saw lots of small colourful fish, garden eels and a stingray. Beach with cocktails. Lunch Bayside. |
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| Stingray | Garden Eels |
| Dinner at the Japanese Restaurant, Kimonos. This consisted of a group sat round a table and the chef cooking on the hotplate. Our chef was very entertaining with his singing. The meal consisted of: egg fried rice, stir-fried vegetables then fish, steak and chicken. Desserts were eaten in another room with coffee. |
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| The diners around the cooking station | Our Chef |
| Friday 12th
September Early breakfast at Bayside. Picked up by Marc at 08.00 in a lovely Land Cruiser for our tour. Unfortunately two of the things we wanted to do were closed, Appleton Rumery and YS Falls. So, instead to a picturesque river where we spent a little while looking round then on to the Black River where we took a pontoon boat river cruise. Lots of salt-water crocodiles about which apparently are quite tame! Nice cruise up the river where we saw some nice plants including the water Hyacinth and some birds. |
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| Fascinating tree with different plants growing | Black river pontoon boat cruise |
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| Salt water crocodile | and close-up |
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| Black-crowned night heron | and juvenile |
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| Water Hyacinth | Magnificent Frigatebird |
| Next stop was further on round the coast where we picked up a small boat and went to the Pelican Bar located just offshore on a reef. Fun, very ramshackle, place. Bits had been added over the years but completely haphazard. Red-stripe, the beer company, had supplied solar panels to power the place so they even served food. |
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| Information board | Julie with a Red-stripe |
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| The shop | Inside the bar |
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| Offshore | House built too close to the shore |
| Dinner Bayside, R lamb shank and J salmon. |
| Saturday 13th
September Breakfast Bayside. Beach with cocktails as usual, lunch Bayside. Dinner Sundowner's, R steak and J crab cakes and lobster. |
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| Ginger lily | Hibiscus flower |
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| Beach and dive boats | Sundowner's Restaurant |
| Sunday 14th
September Breakfast Bayside. Beach in the morning, lunch Bayside. Barefoot restaurant was busy so we ate at Sundowner's again. R chicken, J crab cake and lobster. |
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| Floating bar | our beach |
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| Yellow Shrimp plant | Ixora plant |
| Monday 15th
September Breakfast Bayside. Beach and swim and J kayaking. Lunch Bayside. Dinner Barefoot, R swordfish and J coconut shrimp and surf and turf. |
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| Piano bar for sundowners | Barefoot restaurant |
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| Brown Pelican in flight... | ...and swimming |
| Tuesday 16th
September Breakfast Bayside. Beach, J out on boat snorkeling and then kayaking. Lunch Bayside, dinner Kimonos (Bayside closed for private party, which we learnt later was a regular Tuesday event for returning customers). |
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| Snorkeling boat | Fan coral |
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| Eagle ray | Eagle rays and Sergeant Major fish |
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| Kimonos restaurant | Loggerhead Kingbird |
| Wednesday 17th
September Breakfast Bayside. Beach and cocktail of the day as usual. Lunch Bayside. Usual afternoon showers. Dinner Bayside, R lamb shank and J salmon. |
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| Downpour outside | Lovely gardens |
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| Dive map sites | Favourite picture |
| Thursday 18th
September Breakfast Bayside. Moved to room 406 as had to leave our room at 11.00. Beach and lunch at Bayside. Irish coffee and ice-cream at Crema as we hadn't done this before. Transport at 6.00pm to airport. |
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| The stage at Bayside restaurant | Royal Tern |
