Despite our experience with this unit and the owner, we had an great time in Negril even though the unit was not what was advertised.
This was our third visit to Negril and we have stayed in 2 other units in the Point VIllage complex which were both beautiful with helpful (experienced?) owners.
When we were booking for this year, none of the prior units were available and the only unit that worked for us was Sarah's. Looking at the (well positioned) pictures, it appeared that the only thing that we were giving up was a bit of view (OK view, just not as nice as others) which would explain the price differential.
We arrived and were surprised to find that there was hardly any bedding and the pillows that were there were stained (blood I think) and basically worn out. We also discovered that the balcony which looked fine in the pictures was unusable as it was under construction. The toilet decided to start running every night around 2am for no apparent reason and their cleaning lady was not thorough enough to clean the coffee maker which had moldy coffee in it.
We contracted the owner and were told (on day 2 after trying to sleep without bedding and disgusting pillows) that her mom was on the way from Montego Bay with some new bedding. When she arrived, it turned out to be a couple of new bedspreads only. When we asked her about the pillows, she looked at them and said she certainly wouldn't want to sleep on them (so why would we?). She went on to tell us that we don't know how hard it is to get stuff in Jamaica (actually we do - you can get that stuff easily in the Mega Mart in Montego Bay or go to Kingston). She then took 3 of the 4 pillows with her and said she could get more if we wanted. Since we just stared at her I guess she figured we didn't and never did return with them so we were left to use the one remaining pillow and grabbed another from the sofa. To top it all off, the owner was emailing me that they needed to see the unit (which we let her mom) to see what was going on. Turns out (we are pretty sure) that the mom lives in the next building - if that is true, shame on her for not knowing the state of the unit.
We are not usually big complainers. We rented out our cottage on for years. I would have been embarrassed to have this happen to my guests. This could be a very nice little rental if they invested maybe $500 or $1,000 more. I really think that the issue is an inexperienced and absentee owner.
