Ocho Rios has the waterfalls. This single fact — that Dunn’s River Falls, one of the Caribbean’s most photographed natural features, is accessible from the resort zone by a thirty-minute drive — is the primary reason that guests who want to experience something of the Jamaican landscape rather than merely to be in it tend…
Jamaica is the only Caribbean island that has produced a global music culture, a cuisine with a specific philosophy behind it, a distinct political and spiritual tradition in Rastafarianism, and a landscape — the Blue Mountains rising to over two thousand metres behind the coast, the waterfalls of the interior, the rivers navigable by bamboo…
Sandals Royal Plantation exists in the Sandals portfolio the way a single malt exists in a blended whisky company’s range — the product that demonstrates what the brand can do when scale is removed from the equation and the focus narrows to quality for its own sake. Seventy-four suites. No buffet, ever. Butler service for…
Jamaica Inn does not try to be anything other than what it is, which is partly why it has been what it is since 1950 without significant alteration of its essential character. Fifty rooms on a private cove in Ocho Rios, the beach below the white-columned verandahs that run the length of the property, the…
Montego Bay is the right base for a Jamaica holiday if you want the island’s most developed resort infrastructure, the easiest airport transfer, and the specific combination of accessibility and quality that makes a first Jamaica visit feel both easy and rewarding. It is the wrong base if you came to Jamaica for the most…