24 April 2006
Jamaica trip report
Posted by Matthieu under: Travels; Vacations
Trip Facts :
- Length : 3 days in Orlando + 8 days in Jamaica
- Driven distance in Jamaica : 600 Km (~373Miles) on the left side of the road!!!
- Average day distance in Jamaica : 75 Km (46.6 Miles)
Money Facts (Orlando) :
- 2 days Walt Disney World ticket : 78$ (Thanks Kristy who got in for free and got me a discount ;))
- Food and drinks : ~165$
- Hotel : 0$ (Thanks again Kristy!!!)
Money Facts (Jamaica) :
- Gas : ~50$
- Food and drinks : ~500$ (~31$ per day per person)
- Red Stripes : ~40$
- Hotels : 420$ (30$ per night per person)
- Car rental : 350$
- Hubcap lost in a Jamaican pothole: 10$
- Blue Lagoon boat trip : 60$
- Rio Grande rafting trip : 120$
- Glass bottom boat : 40$
- Parasailing : 70$
- Scuba diving : 75$
- Horseback riding : 120$
Total spent (without flights) : 2342$ (106$ per day per person)
Roundtrip flights Boston - Montego Bay : 506$ each
Random Facts :
- Number of pictures : 800 (One picture every 750 m - 0,46 Miles)
- Best food : Jerk pok at Jerkey’s, a sort of Jamaican fast food in Montego Bay
- Best drink : Blue Lagoon at Xtabi
- Mosquito bites : 2.926!!! even with the bed bug net
- Almost hit by a bus driving in the middle of a very narrow road at 140 Km/h : 83 times
- Sunburns : big ones on the back the only day we forgot to put sunscreen + one on the knees for Kristy
- Time waiting in line at Disney World : 95% of the time
(Btw I hate the fast passes and all the people who buy it!)
