Bad Rate :: 'Deferred Maintenance' at the Beachcomber in Negril

Where: Norman Manley Blvd., Negril, Jamaica

August 7, 2007 at 9:32 AM | by Tim L. | 0 Comments

[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same destination and decide which one most deserves your hard-earned benjamins. Rates quoted here were captured on August 7, 2007 and are subject to change. Enjoy.]

Sometimes paying half the price for a hotel room will get you far less than half the quality. In Jamaica you could pay $249 (plus a resort fee) for an ocean view room at the Ritz-Carlton (this week's Good Rate) or pay $140 a night for an ocean view room at a dump.

The latter would be the Beachcomber Club & Spa in Negril. At one time this hotel might have lived up to its billing as "The Jewel of Negril" not to mention it actually might have had a spa on the premises but no more.

We'll just let the customer comments on TripAdvisor describe it.

· Smelled mildew but once you get past that its ok.
· The rooms (we had three of them before we got one we could accept) are all suffering from deferred maintenance.
· I saw a pile of empty beer bottles in a plant bed for 3 days.
· Overall cleanliness, not so good but the price made it bearable.
· The management was unwilling to issue a reimbursement or discount for the broken A/C.

· The floating beach mats were torn and tattered, and in dire need of replacement.

When we were lucky enough to get beach towels, they were old, worn, and dingy. The pads for the lounge chairs are old and torn with crumbling foam breaking off.
· This place has been used very hard and repaired over time with more paint and plaster than you can imagine.

Negril has a great 7-mile beach and, fortunately, still a fair number of smaller inns that are a good value. Just not this one.

[Photo: TripAdvisor]

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