Good morning! It's Friday, well not quite but for some of us it's our "Friday", including KG! So that means we are looking for big things from you today, KG!
NNNNEEEXXXTTT!!!
R2C, I think you are dropping off today, make sure you arrive early for that lineup! They start admitting at 1:30, but try to get there by 1:00 at the latest.
LHNB, a coaster is a larger bus, long and tall. As opposed to the smaller "mini-buses". They can be somewhat more comfortable to ride in, more headroom for one thing. Legroom, well, it wouldn't be Jamaica if they didn't try to cram as many people in there as they could. Not every coaster driver doing long distance drives try to cram 5 in a row, but some of them do! A bus driver did that to us one time going to Westmoreland, and I was so p***ed!
Yes, no matter what you take, either from Spanish Town or Kingston, you will have to take a second vehicle to Runaway Bay, there is nothing that goes straight on to Runaway Bay from those places.
As for the taxi charter rates, sadly, that $10/12,000 was probably the correct rate (yes, $16,000 would have been over-rated). I once tried to get a taxi to get me to Montego Bay when I missed a flight in Kingston. The driver told me his company rate was $17,500! I almost had heart failure. I ended up paying him $2,000 to get me back from KIN to New Kingston, and waited 4 hours for the next departure from Knutsford Express. Charter rates are madness, but the driver was explaining to me you are paying for both the distance (one rate), the driver's time (another rate) and the fuel costs (third rate). And you know what gas costs are like!
Well, I hope everyone enjoys their long weekend! I am off to West' to see my family. It will be one of my last trips home before my travel date, so I am looking forward to some serious QT with my Mom, the beach and some friends!
