Jamaican Bobsled Adventure in Ocho Rios, Jamaica
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- I recently took a Carnival Cruise through the Caribbean. We thought that the Jamaican Bobsled ride would be a fun excursion.
We took a 2 hour guided van tour from the ship's port in Montego Bay to Ocho Rios, to the Mystic Mountains Rainforest Adventure. The Bobsled ride was part of the "Tranopy Tour" and consists of the SkyExplorer chair lift ride over the rainforest canopy to the pavilion, a ride down the Jamaican Bobsled ride and a zipline tour.
This is video was shot on a head mounted GoPro Hero3 Black Edition to really get first person perspective of the bobsled ride.
If you are an adrenaline junkie planning a Cruise though the Caribbean with a port in Jamaica in either Montego Bay or Ocho Rios, this is the excursion to take.
Subscribe now as I'll soon be uploading high definition videos of the Stingray City excursion in Grand Cayman and the bone shaking Xrail excursion in Cozumel.
Music:
00:00 R Reggae by Blair Darby
Feel de riddims feel de rhyme,
come on out it's bobsled time.
Cool Runnings!!
Lol
Douglas Rainford Speed demons wanted!!
Funny.
Can't wait to visit Jamaica...
Thanks for posting this Vid...love the fact you posted from beginning to end :)
Glad you liked it. I wanted to create a video with as close to the whole experience as possible so that someone could determine if they wanted to do this excursion event. Thanks for taking the time to watch.
New subscriber here. Watching from Barbados🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧
❤️🇯🇲😍 Beautiful!
Wow!!
This is fun!!
Virtual ride!
Great Vlog!
Got to try it for real!
Going there tommarow and from Jamaica !! 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
+Yeh Have fun! We had originally planned to also do the zip line, but it started raining and lightning so they made us wait. We ran out of time and had to leave... and we almost missed the boat!
omg! I'm from Jamaica TOO! Just went out there a month er two ago. I saw my aunts and uncles and cousins and great grandfathers it was AMAZIN MON.
I'm on the first Miami cruise of the Vista in 11 days & have this excursion booked exactly 2 weeks from today. Thanks for the awesome video! Now I can't wait even more!
Cool! It was a lot of fun. Though when we went it rained on the top of the mountain after we did the bobsled so we didn't get to do the zipline, which would have been fun. We waited a while hoping that the rain would subside, but ended up having to leave. We got back to the ship late and almost missed it.
Litterally just finished watching cool runnings and I have their little Jamaica we have a bob sled team stuck in my head!
Great share! Thanks 💛. Just came back from Jamaica this month, after spending two weeks out there! Had such a great time I had to do a vlog. The people, food, sunshine and beaches were all to die for! Can't wait to go back 💛
I think its cool they turned this into a ride. they have something simular to this In denver except its down a mountain
What an adventure! I'd love to do that. And the GoPro did a superb job of capturing it.
“Take the opportunity to look around the jungle and take in the panicked screams of other riders”
Excuse me
😱
Feel the rhythm feel the rates come out it’s bobsled time cool runnings!!
I love that ride
Yeah, it did a pretty good job. Though my girlfriend tried to disown me because she thought I looked ridiculous with the thing strapped to my head. Oh the sacrifices we make for art.
Lol. Good video man. I'm actually looking to buy one of those head camera contraptions for my wife. We'll be in ochi in 2 weeks for our 1st anniversary. She can use it for snorkeling.
Looks cool, I need to do that
Great video
I know this Long time I went there orches rios San Anne Spanish town and Montego Bay and more it is fun bob sledding and zip lining fun I want to do it again
lydene2004 It is Ocho Rios, not orches rios
when we were riding back down the lift a guy asked us to buy weed under the lift
I didn't experience that this time. The last time I visited Jamaica we were at an arts and crafts market in Ocho Rios and some guy came up behind us whispering and asking us if we wanted to buy. They probably target tourists. It's probably a scam.
When I visited, the busboy in front of the airport offered me a handful of weed, and then the busboy at the hotel offered me another handful. People were walking up and down the beach with ounces of it in their pockets. Couldn't believe it
That happened to us too. A vendor had a picture of weed leave and brownies on a sign, and asked us if we wanted a GANJA BROWNIES. As childish as we are we burst out laughing! So now when anyone in my family says "hey, hey- ganja brownies!". We burst out laughing. My four year old cousin even told us he wanted one. We offically died. #jamaicareallydoesthingstoyou #IloveJamaica #lol #ProudJamaicanHere
Sanka, you dead mon?
Ya Mon
Sonya Nov I love that movie!!
Ya mon
Jamaica up that were I came from big bamboo
Yeah, they redesigned the lens port to make it flat. The old one had a bubble sort of port that sent things a little out of focus when underwater... another reason I waited to get the Hero3. I guess enough divers complained that they re-engineered the thing. Have you tried the smartphone app? You can get a video preview streamed straight from the camera over wireless.
Bobsleding is great, but the trip up was nerve racking, with nothing to protect you
I WENT THERE LAST YEAR!
Who knew camera quality was so good in 2013
Que legal. Poderia vir pro Brasil. mas tem que ver se o clima é favorável pro brinquedo. Aqui no Brasil o pessoal iria adorar. A manutenção do aparelho deve dar muito trabalho.
Thank u
Do they offer helmets to wear? I’m all for speed but would want my head protected in case it jumped track.
I don't think so. You are strapped into the sled and the sled is sort of attached to the track just like a roller coaster. There is netting in places like the curves as well.
The zip line had helmets. A storm rolled in and we ended up not having time to do the zip line. We tried to wait it out but ended up having to leave. We almost missed the boat.
If you do zip line the vertical drop is scary they hold you then drop you
lydene2004 the brat at the top of that vertical drop stopped me with my crotch right in the guy at the bottoms face. I yelled at him that he was a tricky bastard lol 😝
Yeah, I have one of the earlier GoPro HD cameras and then just before this vacation trip bought the new GoPro Hero3. I got the "black edition" that shoots 4k and 2.7k. Though it only shoots 4k at 15fps or something. I shot stingrays in Grand Cayman at 2.7k. Need to edit that footage together next...
I've been on it its so fast
Do you take the ski lift back down? I assume so, right?
Yes. We were originally scheduled to have done the zip line, but it started raining and was lighting so we had to wait it out. By the time that ended it was too late to do the zip line and we had to take the lift back down and hurry back to the tour van. We came very close to missing the boat. The tour operation had to call the boat and tell them not to leave. Everyone on the ship was lined up on the railings and cheering and clapping when we came running down the pier.
I was on this tour on Dec. 12th. No 700 foot height on the chairlift. Maybe 70.
+gotrocs4751 I don't know for sure. I got that off of the Rain Forest Adventures website. Has to be more than 70 feet. Funny thing was that we got stuck on one spot that had to be at a peak for probably 20 or 30 minutes...Not just once but twice. I cut it out of the video obviously.
Sure looked like a long way down. Probably crosses a valley or something to make that claim.
Can you control how fast you go? I'm not a roller coaster person and this reminds me of one. I like going fast but those little drops get me lol
+Queen gingin yes. It has a brake that you can pull to control your speed. I used mine a lot "cause I'm a chicken. My girlfriend didn't use it at all when she went because she is a speed freak. If you are with someone they can also hook your sleds together. We didn't because my girlfriend said I was going to be too slow. She didn't want me slowing her down.
My boyfriends a big fella and 6’2 279 pounds I think we would have to ride separately correct?
I would think so. I believe they have a weight limit for safety purposes because of the forces the ride has as you take turns and such at speed. They don't want anyone flying off the tracks I guess.
Didn't I say that Jamaica is eveything?
Unlike the United States, nothing is free, in Jamaica, although Jamaicans are generally poor, Americans can afford a luxury like a trip to Jamaica.
No drop?
What's the cost?anyone can tell?
Cost?
only one person can ride the bob sled at a time?
+Akira Shipp there is only enough room in the bob sled for one person. If you want to go down with another person they latch two bob sleds together so they are connected and you go down together.
They wait until you are making the trip back up to send the next sled(s) down. I think it is too dangerous otherwise since people go down at different speeds or if there is a problem and a sled is stalled on the tracks. They don't want to risk a collision.
I went with my girlfriend. She didn't want to be tethered to me because she is a speed demon.
When I went down I used the brakes in places. She didn't touch the brake at all.
How much for the price of one person
+Candice Skeine I don't remember what it was for us specifically. The trip we took was part of a cruise ship excursion that we picked before taking our trip. According to the Mystic Mountain Rain forest Adverture website it looks as though the price for the bobsled tour is around $69 USD. But like I said, our trip was part of an excursion package offered by the cruise line, so the price and activities included might have been different. Ours included the canopy ride, a little lunch, the bobsled run and a zip line tour...we didn't get do the zip line since a storm rolled in and we couldn't wait or we would have missed the ship out.
If I remember correctly the cruise line offered a couple of different packages that were different combinations of activities for similar pricing per package.
You mean 15 to 20 mins
James Walcott lol I was just thinking that like wait I gotta ride back up 😳 that’s longer than 2 minutes lol
Is there a way to walk up? Lol
I'm not sure. I know there was a way to drive up.
How safe is this lmao
VizionWorksEditing it's actually not that bad. The sleds actually felt pretty secure. The bigger curves had netting around them I would assume in an effort to keep you from flying off into the jungle if the thing did manage to become disconnected from the rails. It's basically just a roller coaster.
epontius my bad. I should of been my specific, i mean the sky lift lol
VizionWorksEditing the sky chair thing is sketchy. It broke at least 2 times on our trip up. We were stuck in one place dangling 100 feet or more up for probably 20 minutes or more.
epontius so can i hike my way up the mountain instead haha
Speed limit?
There aint no damn speed limit fool!!
I went faster
lydene2004 Ocho Rios, not orches rios