Recent reports have also indicated that hotel bookings across T&T for the 2009 Carnival season have been slow, and the Tourism Minister has been pleading with hoteliers to drop their rates in order to entice revelers who may still be in two minds about coming to Trinidad for this year’s Carnival.

Notably also, the usual influx from Caribbean neighbors such as Jamaica is expected to be lower than normal. In Jamaica, where various financial and economic issues have affected the country over the past year, quite a few carnival regulars are reportedly not making the trip this time around.

Despite all … we will still play Mas, and get real real mad. So who not here you’ll be missing out, big time!