A Comparison Between Stinkin' Rich People And The Average Joe
These people paid $36K for the same vacation I got for free.
In 2017, I was hired by Forbes Luxury Travel Guide to review a ridiculously extravagant Half Moon resort in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Although ultra luxury isn’t my style I had no problem pretending to fit into its opulence.
I ended up fitting in so well that I returned to the resort a week after my assignment to have a few drinks with the bartender and watch the jazz band I had seen a week earlier.
It was a Saturday night when I returned and in true Kristi fashion, I sat at the bar alone, chatting up the bartender. The one thing he and I had in common was that neither of us could afford to breathe Half Moon air if it wasn’t part of a job.
A few bar stools over sat two ladies who assumed I was a regular by how I interacted with the bartender, so they asked me how long I’d been staying at the resort. I told them I wasn’t staying there at all, I had just dropped in for the evening to watch the band.
I added that I had stayed a few nights the previous week to write the review for Forbes.
These ladies, a mother and daughter duo, were from England and through conversation it became obvious that they came from a LOT of money. They spoke of world travel, staying in excessively high-end accommodations, and living an incredible life of luxury.
Maybe I would do that too if I were wealthy. But probably not.
During conversation, the women asked how my review of the resort turned out, and whether I’d enjoyed it. Obviously, I gushed about it to them just as I did in the epic, multi-part miniseries I wrote on my destination blog.
Writing for Forbes does not permit gushing of any sort. Hence, I felt a burning desire to spew out what could have been a whole paperback to anyone who would listen.
Right after singing my praises about the experience, the first thing these ladies did was disagree and begin ripping into how terrible their experience at the resort had been so far.
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