Destination: Negril, Jamaica

Hotel: Riu Palace Tropical Bay

Dates: September 4-12

Accomodations: 5 = Best

Room Size: 4.5

Amenities: 4.5

Service: 4

Restaurants: 4

Pool/common areas: 4

Enterainment: 4

Location: 5

Over-all: 4

Tours: We went on a snorkeling cruise where we went to Rick's Cafe to watch the cliff divers and also to the cave where they shot scenes from Pirates of the Caribbean. We didn't see as many tropical fish as we would have liked, but the cruise was worth it.  We actually had more fun feeding the fish off our own beach!

What is one thing that you think everyone traveling to the area should see/do?: We just loved our beach at the Riu Tropical Bay.  We thought we had the best beach by far of any of the resorts on our strip.  Even better than the beach at the Couples Resort Negril. 

Vacation over-all:

4. This resort wasn't as romantic as our Honeymoon in Mexico, but we still had a great time!  The all-inclusive aspect of it was wonderful.  The rooms were very nice.  The only thing we didn't like was that our bed wasn't technically a "king-size,"  it was 2 double beds put together.  If we would have asked ahead of time, we could have gotten a king size.  We did get upgraded to an Oceanfront room so that was definitely worth it.  The food was pretty good. I would definitely recommend getting reservations at the restaurants rather than doing buffet style. One thing that we didn't like was that our beach wasn't private.  Vendors would come and try and sell you things all the time.  We were spoiled on our honeymoon as we never had problems with this. The entertainment was great!  The Michael Jackson show seriously put tears in my eyes it was that good! Overall, we had a great time and would recommend this resort to others.