[Restless]

We went there for our honeymoon in the 90s, and we have zero desire to go back. Once you are out of the tourist areas, it is a third-world dump. On our first day, a man approached my wife in a store and asked her if she’d like to buy some “nose candy.” As we exited a tour bus, a woman offered to sell us her baby for $100. For the remaining two days of our trip, we didn’t venture far from our hotel. We were very relieved when we got back on our cruise ship.

[LukeL]

The selling drugs is part of a common scam. Someone will offer to sell you drugs and a couple of minutes latter a cop will ask to search your belongings. Once they find the drugs they will tell you they can make the charges disappear for a fee. The cop and the drug dealer then split the money.

[Jeff Chandler]

Once you are out of the tourist areas

A friend of mine who grew up in Jamaica and has sworn never to return told me that if you leave the tourist area the Jamaicans will cut your throat.

[frank ballenger]

RE: a third-world dump. On our first day, a man approached my wife in a store and asked her if she’d like to buy some “nose candy.” As we exited a tour bus, a woman offered to sell us her baby for $100. For the remaining two days of our trip, we didn’t venture far from our hotel.

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Yipes. Those folks aren’t like the home town people in Bing Crosby’s song Dear Hearts and Gentle People. Tourists must be torn between them and going back home to the US..../S

Dear Hearts and Gentle People (1949)

...those dear hearts and gentle people
Will never ever let you down
They read the Good Book
From Friday ‘til Monday
That’s how the weekend goes

I feel so welcome each time that I return
That my happy heart keeps laughing like a clown
I love the dear hearts and gentle people
Who live and love in my home town.