Posted on 06/11/2019 7:07:02 AM PDT by C19fan
Actually they are not. Generally the most expensive Caribbean islands like Grand Cayman and St Barts do not have the all inclusive hotels that attract the volume of tourists. Grand Cayman has a higher standard of living than the US. St Barts tend to be where the very rich go. It is an expensive island to visit.
The BVI’s have working poor, but most of them are from other islands in the Caribbean like Jamaica or Trinidad.
The BVI’s also have a huge offshore banking business like the Caymans.
In Grand Cayman, many of the people working at the resorts are young Canadians. When I was there the Cayman dollar was worth 2X what the Looney was. A young college student from Vancouver worked there from December through April. In that time she could make $40K Cayman = $80 Canadian. She also kept her money in one of the many Cayman banks. I doubt she was paying Canadian income tax on her earnings. Almost all the young people working in the resorts in the Caymans are from Canada, Australia and the UK. They were almost all white kids too.
The places that the big cruise ships go are not the places you want to visit in the Caribbean in general with few exceptions. Also, the all inclusive resorts tend to be in the cheaper wage(third world countries)like the Dominican Republic or Mexico. In the DR, those jobs at the resorts are hard to get. They pay their people crap. Unemployment there is high. The only hope for most of these young people is BASEBALL. They dream of being the next Pedro Martinez or Big Papi.
If you vacation there and visit the mountain water pools,>>> DO NOT GO FOR A SWIM. You will regret it. I did and caught a virus that lasted close to 4 months. I almost had to go to the Emergency room after the 2nd night after swimming.
I live in the Caribbean and no they are not all the same.
“We bought Popov Vodka in 1.75 liter bottles. It was the cheapest brand name vodka you could buy back then.”
I had heard in college that Popov and Smirnoff were the same vodka, but that the company profited more from Popov because sales volume was greater.
Heard the same rumor in the Army where the Class Six store’s generic liquors such as “Club Deluxe” and later “Military Special” were actually high quality brands with a cheaper label.
FWIW If the label says it was distilled in Bardstown, Kentucky, that’s fine with me, I was stationed at Fort Knox.
No need to replace legitimate cheap booze with counterfeit rotgut. Friend’s sons own a bar with a large open garden in a California beach town. On weekends, they hire a local band. Jello shooters are the rage: A teaspoon or so of Jello drowning in an ounce of cheap vodka or whisky (Early Times, Seagram’s Seven etc.) served in a paper minicup from the fridge. Servers are hot barmaids who deliver the drinks by the tray, a dozen shots for $36 or $4 each. Cost per drink to them is about a quarter a drink. On a Friday or Saturday night, they often sell hundreds of trays. The margins are awesome!
After at least six U.S. tourists died under mysterious circumstances there in the last 12 months, Americans with plans to visit the Dominican Republic are reconsidering their vacations. The deaths include a California man, Robert Wallace, whose family told Fox News he became critically ill in April at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino resort in Punta Cana. They decided to come forward after learning of others recently who died in similar circumstances while vacationing on the island.
Wallace’s family says he was in the Dominican Republic for his stepson’s wedding. He quickly became sick and died after drinking a scotch from the minibar at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. Nearly two months later, his family still doesn’t have answers.
Gibb’s Rule 29: “There is no such thing as coincidence.” - revealed in Obsession (episode) although DiNozzo states that Rule 39A is “There is no such thing as a small world”
My parents live in St. Croix I agree they’re not all the same. You can watch out bar on Live Cam later in the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm_-L6felME
Now that the evil ones know how easy it is to murder random humans it’ll be copy catted all over the world.\\
“I’ve never understood how people could vacation in Third World ****holes. The weather and scenery may be wonderful and the resort itself attractive - but it’s surrounded by and staffed with ****hole-dwellers.”
Our passports expired and our new California Driver’s licenses don’t work to get us out of the USA or back in.
My wife has been pushing to get the necessary paperwork at our DMV to get those restrictions removed.
I have told her, I’m not interested in visiting any $hithole countries that hate us and Canada is now in that category.
America made a huge mistake prolonging the post-war support for the “rebuilding of Europe!” Our youngest daughter had, for a time, a German boyfriend who was here at the age of 27 working at Lawrence Berkeley Lab (nuclear physics). I turns out that Germans can stay on the public dole “in the furtherance of their education” until they are 30! This young man, even to this day, having returned to Germany, has never held a job! America has fundamentally supported Germany, and the rest of Europe, by allowing them collectively to not pay their agreed upon share of NATO costs. They have used that money to further Socialism in their respective countries. I marvel at how our politicians have, in virtually every instance, created benefits for our “allies” that have allowed them to build economies that at the end of the day compete with ours using our taxpayers money to do so. Trump is the ONLY President to say, “enough of all of this. After 75 years, you need to be on your own,” and at least start the process of cutting all of them loose.
Someone asked how many Europeans have died and we are not being told about it.
Very cool.
Mickey Rats on Main?
Wow. I learned something from your post (as usual).
Things are worse than I thought.
One thing though. That guy probably boosted the video game industry and Dorritos sales instead of getting a job. That’s something, I guess.
yep. i pointed that out on another thread. who the hell do you think works behind the gate at your gated resort?? UGH. No thanks.
“One thing though. That guy probably boosted the video game industry and Dorritos sales instead of getting a job. That’s something, I guess.”
Actually, he’s a nice, and very smart young man. My trouble with his “lifestyle” is the fact that on many levels, America is supporting him. He had a job at a prestigious National Laboratory here and was paid for his time. But when he went back to Germany, he bought a clapped out van and toured around with his friends in it. It’s been two years now since he was here, and he still doesn’t have a job, preferring to live off of his German Government-supplied “stipend.” And I submit he has that money coming in as a direct result of Germany’s unwillingness to pay for its own defense. And until Trump came along, America was “content” to continue to pay the lion’s share of NATO’s budget. The bigger issue here is the extent of our “foreign aid.” We need to stop buying our friends. It is not fair to the American Citizens to force them to be taxed to support these trash countries.
Ah come on, Orlando and Miami aren’t that bad.
Well a 51 year old woman just got the crap beaten out of her by an employee in an all-inclusive resort.
I couldn’t agree with you more. In fact, luxury accommodations in third world sh*t holes are considered luxury by third world standards. Been to the Bahamas once and that put me off any more vacations in similar countries.
I couldn’t agree with you more. In fact, luxury accommodations in third world sh*t holes are considered luxury by third world standards. Been to the Bahamas once and that put me off any more vacations in similar countries.
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