Originally Posted by
henkybaby
Once again, we are different travelers perhaps, but your previous suggestion that you cannot find a good beach resort under $700 anywhere in the world is nonsensical.
I agree that this maybe the case iMRU and - if you recall - that was why the place is not my cup of tea. That and the lack of anything outside of the hotels. To each there own though.
You do sometimes make blanket statements that make me wonder if they are really based on the truth like the one about >$700 hotels.
Once again though you selectively quote from replies to suit your own argument. I did not say that you cannot find a "good" beach resort for under $700. I said that "I cannot think of many places in the world where you may find a top notch luxury beach resort for less than $700". See the difference?
There are many places you can find "good" beach resorts for around the $200 mark, there are many fewer places where you will find top notch luxury 5 star deluxe properties for under $700. That is the rub. MRU has a high concentration of such properties and the rates for them do not seem out of the norm when compared against their real international peers. Obviously they seem high when compared to Uncle Somchais Beach Shack in Krabi. Whilst the hypothetical Uncle Somchai's may be a "good beach" resort it wouldn't really be aiming at the top notch luxury crowd would it?
The broad thrust of my comments re: MRU is this. I have stayed in MRU more than once (total about 4 weeks). I have stayed in a range of properties and visited even more. I have visited all the major sites on the island (the majority of which I have been to at least twice). More importantly for the OT of this thread I have successfully hired a great car at a very decent rate and driven all over the island. You have stayed once for a short time at one property at the low end of those available on the island and it appears you didn't explore much beyond your immediate surroundings, yet somehow you think your opinion (even as an opinion) is worth more than mine? I would have to say this it clearly isn't. However ultimately that is a matter for those reading this thread to decide.
Anyone can make anyone else sound inconsistent if they selectively quote and then substitute words which are similar but with a totally different meaning. Then again some of us do not need others to selectively quote and twist those quotes to make others look inconsistent, some of us do this entirely for themselves.