Self-catering accommodation is a place to stay with a kitchen, thereby allowing you to prepare your own meals. The accommodation may be a villa, a cottage or an apartment. They can be budget basic or wonderfully luxurious. If you have a tight budget, or simply like to do your own thing, this is an attractive alternative to staying in hotels.
We all know restaurants in hotels and resorts are usually expensive. Even restaurants just outside the hotels and resorts and those frequented by tourists tend to be expensive, with many proprietors setting their prices, not based on their costs or local market prices, but on what the visitors usually pay from wherever they came. Travelers, especially families, know all too well how the cost of keeping everyone fed and watered can add up!
What’s not attractive about self-catering accommodation then? Well, someone, usually the wife or Mom, has to spend all her time, not enjoying the destination or relaxing on the beach, but working. Yes, someone has to shop for groceries, prepare the food, and clean up afterwards. Just like she does back home. So this type of vacation can be described as housework with a different view! But ti does not have to be like that.
There is a lot of self-catering accommodation worldwide, but in Jamaica, some Jamaica accommodation rentals are offered with a marvelous difference. Jamaica villas take the work out of the vacation. These Jamaica rentals include staff in the cost of the Jamaica accommodation rentals. Typically, Jamaica villas will include in the price, the services of a cook and a housekeeper, who will prepare all your meals and shop for the groceries. They will keep the Jamaica villas clean and make the rooms every day.
Smaller and less expensive Jamaica villas may combine the cook and housekeeper in one person. Larger more luxurious villas will have more staff. Some will provide a cook, housekeeper, and gardener and pool man. Others provide even more service, with more than one cook, laundress, and even a butler. Many will even do your laundry. Imagine going back home with all your clothes clean and ironed and neatly folded! Sure beats getting back home with a suitcase full of dirty clothes that you then have to wash.
Take note that staying in self-catering Jamaica apartments does not usually provide these benefits. Most Jamaica apartments will provide the services of a housekeeper who will clean the apartment every day or every other day, but that’s all. If you want a cook, you will have to make additional arrangements and pay extra. In spite of this, there are many vacationers who are happy renting Jamaica apartments as they are much less expensive than Jamaica villas and these guests want to eat out in many different types of restaurants.
When renting Jamaica villas, it is important to inquire about the level of staffing you will get so you know what to expect. All this information should be readily available on the agents’ or owners’ web site. If it is not, you should ask, and don’t settle for vague answers.
You can see that renting a staffed self-catering accommodation can be a very smart, price competitive and yet luxurious option, beating hotels and resort vacations by miles. Even when tipping the staff is added on.
It is an industry practice in Jamaica villas to tip the staff for good service. The recommended amount is ten percent of the cost of the Jamaica rentals divided among the staff. You decide how to divide it up, but most guests give the cook or team leader a little more than the rest. Other guests just like to share it equally.
This type of vacation really works and that is why so many people who have discovered Jamaica villas will never go back to a hotel or resort again.
Author Resource:-
Sandy Summer is a travel writer specializing in Jamaica Accommodation Rentals, and dedicated to providing information on quality accommodation in Jamaica villas, cottages, and apartments by the sea.
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