جامايكا رحلات و [توور غيد]

يخطّط أنا يتلقّى يكون رحلة طويل الأجل إلى جامايكا ل الى حدّ بعيد بعض وقت الآن ورغم أنّ هو قد كان أقلّ من جدّيّة أنا على الأقلّ أنا [فميلير ويث] ماذا نحن نريد ويحتاج لخبرة مريحة. قد كان [إي] بنفسي إلى جامايكا على اثنان أخرى مناسبات وأسرتي كنت سيسافر [فور ث فيرست تيم]. أنا جدّا أثرت حول [رتثرن تريب] ي غير أنّ يريد أنا حقّا أن يتمّ بعض تخطيط هذا [غو رووند]. نحن كنت سنسافر مع أطفال ويريد أنا أن يكون مؤكّدة نحن نحصل حول الجزيرة بنعومة. أنا حقّا كرهت لبداية سيّئة أن يدمّر عطلتنا لذلك ينظر أنا في أين أن يبدأ أولى [أف كورس].

مع الوقت قد أنفق أنا في جامايكا وفكرتي من ماذا نحن نكون يفتّش أنا يفكّر في مكان ما [كلوس تو] [نغريل] كان إختباري جيّدة لأولى منزل أو شقة أن يستأجر. أنا أفكّر مكاننا أولى سوفت كنت لطيفة واحدة لذلك يضمن نحن داخل جامايكا مثل بسهولة بما أنّ يمكن. حاليّا يعتبر نحن شقة إيجار في مكان ما قرب [نغريل] شاطئ منطقة وأنا أفكّر نحن بكل أمل كنّا يمكن أن يقرّر داخل أكثر مكان دائمة أثناء شهرنا أولى [إين.]. أنا مشجّعة نحن سيكون يمكن أن يجد مكان جيّدة أن يبقى عقب يصل نحن لأنّ المصادر [أفيلبل ونلين] يكونون إلى حدّ ما مشفقة.

هناك [ا نومبر وف] موقعات جامايكيّة عبر إنترنت غير أنّ لا كثير لشقة بحوت. في الماض قد استعمل أنا موقعات مثل Jamaicans.com و Everytingjamaican.com لعامّة سفر وجزيرة معلومة. Jamaicans.com من المحتمل الموردة جيّدة ل [جنرل ينفورمأيشن] على جامايكا والالناس جامايكيّة. ال Jamaicans.com ساحات يتلقّى موضوع وخبيرة على فقط حوالي كلّ شيء جامايكيّة وأنت يستطيع يتلقّى أسئلتك يجاب بخبيرة بالأحرى بسهولة ب يتلاقى في المحادثات مع هم.

أكثر من الموقعات حول جامايكا حول [فكأيشنينغ] في جامايكا وبينما كثير من هذا معلومة يكون مفيدة إلى نا يفتّش نحن أكثر [إينفو] خاصّة على يتحرّك إلى جامايكا وال [ستبس] ضروريّة أن يتمّ هكذا قانونيّا. We may spend some time in a hotel but we’re probably looking for a more long term rental space and the typical room search in Jamaica isn’t going to do us much good. Searching for “Jamaica real estate” brings us sites such as Sangsters Realty which isn’t the prettiest site on the net but it does have quite an extensive selection of Jamaican real estate. Coldwell Banker also has a great site for Jamaican realty and one can find anything from multi acre farm estates to single family homes for sale or rental apartments throughout the island. Both of these sitews seem to have a better selection of properties listed then the official Jamaican Realtors website at RealtorsJamaica.com does. Using a combination of all these sites helps you get a better understanding of the Jamaican rel estate market but I do believe there is much more to things than what we can find online. It seems to me a great need for smaller local property listings in areas surrounding the major cities in Jamaica. Many of the properties listed are expensive all inclusive type vacation rentals and finding properties to rent for long term use is going to be easier for us using the Jamaican newspaper website at Jamaica-Gleaner.com. I’ve been able to get a better idea of living costs from the local news site then anything else. It’s been a hard year for the tourist season and living in Jamaica should actually be cheaper for us then expected due to the lack of visitors to the island thus far this year.

Of course finding a place to live is only one part in relocating to Jamaica and securing the proper documents and travel permits is probably the most important thing we need to do first. I have already sent out applications for passports for everyone and I am having mine renewed as well. It’s got 2 years left but I think it’s best we all have fresh documents and photographs. The US Passport agency is running behind schedule because of the new travel rules and passports are taking up to 10 weeks to deliver now. I was forced to pay to have ours processed within two weeks because of my lack of planning. I should have taken care of those last year. I think the best resource I have found for general information on actual moving to Jamaica procedures has got to be the EscpapeArtist.com pages on Jamaica. This site is huge and has loads of great articles on living abroad and their information on moving to Jamaica is great.

Finding travel arrangements was pretty simple for us as we live in Florida and Air Jamaica has flights from Fort Lauderdale three times daily. Their Specials Page offers great rates on air travel to Jamaica and we’re going to be traveling at about $169 each for round trip tickets from June 1 to Dec 10. I considered other forms of transport including taking a boat or cruise ship over to avoid the need for passports but in the end it was easier to fly into Mobay and take a cab to our destination city after we land. I think the kids will enjoy the airplane ride although AJ may find it noisy. I will have to get him some ear plugs for certain.

I have decided that in order to enjoy our first month in Jamaica and to ease the transition from America we shall spend our first month in Negil on the beach somewhere. We’re going to start it out like a vacation and ease into Jamaican life. I searched the web for “negril apartments” and ended up with a rather poor selection of available long term rentals. Realizing that the local economy and the tourist season this winter was weak I decided we should contact some of the nicer places to rent on the beach and ask if they were offering a discounted rate for long term rentals. We are currently looking at a studio apartment directly on Negril beach that rents for $79 per evening with a full kitchen and bath. The current offer is $800 for a full month and I think we might just take that. I’ll keep you posted on those developments and more later.

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