My wife and I did Labadee with Royal Carribean. Nice enough, I suppose, but it was pointed out that Labadee was essentially privately owned, and definitely NOT the real Haiti.
Some folks who did the shopping thing said the same thing about the merchants—pushy and intimidating.
Re: “My wife and I did Labadee with Royal Carribean. Nice enough, I suppose, but it was pointed out that Labadee was essentially privately owned, and definitely NOT the real Haiti.
Some folks who did the shopping thing said the same thing about the merchants—pushy and intimidating.”
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Yes, I, too, was on Royal Caribbean — we saw the kids in little broken down kayaks yelling and begging for ‘change’ from passengers high above the water when we pulled in —
When we were leaving in the late afternoon, we spied small boats carrying Labadee’s ‘day workers’ back to the REAL Haiti since no one lives right there at the cruise stop. It was a pathetic sight and one I have no desire to see again.