Originally, 2021 was supposed to take us on a trip to Hawaii, but the pandemic sidelined those plans for the time being. We decided to stick with the familiar and opted to return to Couples Swept Away in Negril, Jamaica. We were impressed that the country required testing to visit and we were not deterred when the U.S. required testing to return home. The resort quickly stepped up and offered testing as part of our package.
We upgraded ourselves to first class on the way there. For spacing and safety. Also upgrades were were pretty affordable, though services were a bit limited.
This lady was so excited to be back in an airplane that I took photos like a little kid.
The view from our ocean view room #3314. Not as wonderful of a view as the beachfront rooms, but not bad either.
hot tub just to the right
I should have take room photos before we unpacked, but I forgot....pretend you do not see our stuff.
We had a bit of rain most afternoons. We just took that time to return to the room to shower or sit on the verandah.
Most days we got breakfast, sat on the beach, got lunch, sat on the beach for the afternoon, went back to the room to shower, had happy hour on the verandah, and went to dinner. After dinner we usually just went back to the room and played trivia or uno. Writing that, it sounds boring, but it was great warm weather and an improvement over staying home. Plus we missed the majority of the coldest weather of the year at home.
dinner at Palms Tuesday evening
first breakfast is essential LOL
delicious yogurt!
lunch at patois on Wednesday
tiki bar boat
potato of the evening amused me.....
Wednesday dinner at Patois
martini bar was open! and great!
the Silver Birds were amazing!
breakfast visitor
Thursday we had lunch at Seagrapes
quite a downpour Thursday afternoon
We played trivia cards and had an uno tournament on the verandah during the storm.
Thursday's dinner was at Feather's
Friday morning the buffet was back up and running just about normally. Honestly, I preferred table service, though it did take longer.
like a postcard, but real life
lunch at patois
We took the catamaran tour and had a lovely time.
Rick's cafe from the water
Friday dinner at Patois
breakfast kitty cat
Saturday lunch at Seagrapes
the fish tacos were excellent
finally an unobstructed sunset
Saturday dinner at Lemongrass
Saturday afternoon we had our COVID tests required to return home. We went over to the sports center and the testing took maybe 10 minutes start to finish. The results were emailed to us later that afternoon. While the possibility of testing positive was a bit stressful, we really were not around others that much and all venues were outdoors and open air, which knew and hoped would be a good thing. We also made sure to mask when entering and exiting restaurants on the resort and stopping at the bars.
glass bottom boat tour on Sunday
pretty desserts even at Patois at lunch
impressive Valentine's party on the beach
Sunday was Valentine's dinner at the Palms
dinner kitty friend
Monday breakfast from the buffet
John on an aqua cycle
Monday we went on the snorkeling tour
Monday lunch at Seagrapes
it was rather easy to get a palapa each day since capacity at the resort was pretty low
Monday night repeater's dinner
Overall, I was very impressed with the food and beverage at the resort once again. The food is delicious, high quality and well prepared, especially for an all inclusive resort. The standards remain high and we would certainly return.
We had an excellent trip. I did miss the fact that Patois restaurant was not open for sit down breakfast quite a bit. I'm sure there were not enough people to have it open as none of the restaurants really felt crowded at any time. Sometimes it felt a bit busy, but not overly so.
We has some resort credit for being repeaters. We booked a couples massage at the spa one day. MY massage was great, John said his was just OK. I guess it depends who you get. We wore our masks the entire time and that was fine. Not a big deal.
I should mention that we booked private transportation to and from the airport. We wanted to reduce contact with others as much see could and it wasn't that expensive.
We visited the Club MoBay lounge before our flight departed. Some snacks were tasty, some were a miss.
The trip home was uneventful. We were seated in the exit row with an empty seat next to both of us. Both flights were rather empty so social distancing was pretty easy. If everyone would just wear a mask, it would be fine, but that is too much to ask of some people. Sigh....
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