Jamaica’s finest hotels blend with the Caribbean island’s lush scenery and lively music and food scenes. Here, we round up 10 of the best, from its rugged interior down to the golden beaches.
In Jamaica's coffee-growing Blue Mountains, rooms come with burlap pouches of fresh grounds to brew amid the morning mist. Remote Port Antonio is all about the sleepy rhythm — as slow as a raft punted down the Rio Grande. Hotels around the waterfalls and white sands of Ocho Rios try to outdo one another at the barbecue. And around the west coast in Negril, evenings are spent watching the sunset, whether you’re on Seven Mile Beach or the rocky cliffs around Rick’s Cafe.
Once you’ve made it to this south-coast hideaway on the jungle B road, you won’t want to leave — particularly once you’re plied with pink gin cocktails and shellfish plucked from Frenchman’s Bay. Jakes’ restaurant overlooking Treasure Beach champions a menu that might include its legendary jerk crab and leafy callaloo harvested at local farms. The bounty from the surrounding valleys is as colourful as Jakes’ psychedelically styled cabins, built among the mangroves.
Bringing a slice of Miami Beach to Negril, Skylark is a low-rise in white stucco, decorated with kidney-shaped tables and vintage travel posters. Long and deep, it’s obscured by thick palms ending at a private beach. Turquoise doors to the guest rooms are portals to the past: four-posters have side tables with Sputnik legs and Bakelite lamps, pink walls have psychedelic blaxploitation posters and there are no TVs.
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