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Good Rate :: The New Gran Bahia Principe Jamaica on BookIt

Where: Salt Coppers Villa, Runaway Bay, St. Ann, Jamaica

[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same city and decide which one most deserves your hard-earned benjamins. Rates quotes here were valid on March 12, 2007 and are subject to change. Enjoy.]

A lot of times you have to look beyond the "everything for everybody" booking sites to find a sweet hotel deal and BookIt.com seems to score an unusually high number of bargains for sunny beaches in the Caribbean and Mexico.

Take this grand opening special they are running for the all-inclusive Gran Bahia Principe Jamaica, in Runaway Bay. After the spring break madness is done, you can score a junior suite for yourself and your loved one for only $99 a person. We pulled up the dates of April 12 to 15 for a quick weekend getaway and it was ready to take our credit card and send us off to the palm trees.

This is not the kind of place you go for solitude of course. We're talking 757 rooms, 3 pools, 7 restaurants, 5 bars (including a swim-up bar), a kid's club, and the usual mega-hotel impersonality. But hey, we know a few people who could easily eat and drink the equivalent of $100 a day after sundown alone (not that our bar tab has ever been that high or anything), so this is a score. Bahia Principe is a Spanish hotel company that has this kind of place down to a science, so if you like this kind of set-up, this one will be well-run and spotless.

This deal is for stays from April 9 on and must be booked today or tomorrow.