Jamaica Travel Blogs

I didn't sleep a wink that night as the excitement was way to much for me to handle, images of crystal clear waters, white sands and rum based cocktails would not leave my mind. I couldn't beleive that in just a few hours I would be on a flight to Jamaica, away from London for 3 weeks for qualitly …

I awoke early this morning to watch the sunrise from the balcony amongst the pretty pond and green trees. Around 11pm we had a glass bottom boat trip booked, the hotel provides this trip for free, there were quite a few couples on this trip, the guys guiding the excursion were great one was appare…

Leaving Jamaica was one of the hardest things I've had to do in a long time.  I was darn near tears when going because really, who wants to leave paradise?!?  We woke very early that morning, got our luggage together and waited for our driver to arrive and take us to the airport where we …

Jamaica in July... Hotter than hell, but it was still beautiful! The home of jerk chicken, Bob Marley, Appleton Reserve rum, and white sand beaches... it's heaven mon!

Digging into the archives to share another travel adventure, a decidedly posh retreat to the splendid Half Moon Bay resort near Montego Bay.  This was our introduction to Jamaica, birthplace of the Rastafarian movement.  Most folks are cognizant of the term ‘Rastafari’ without app…

Wow, what a great place!   Such friendly people the Jamaicans are! We flew down to Fort Lauderdale on a Northwest Airlink CRJ-200 and then caught a Spirit Airlines A-319 to Montego Bay.   It was about 2 hours and $40 return by bus to Ocho Rios from there.   …

We learned that we were behind on our painting and had to re-paint everything that we had painted. The blue we used in the beginning had to be repainted especially because we didn't use the right base paint. It started to rain and and we had to work overtime. But that was okay because we went to th…

Another great trip to Jamaica under my belt. This time Wolf and I brought along two of our greatest friends, Jodi and Dorothy. We all stayed at Hedonism 3 near Ocho Rios Jamaica. The resort needs to work on it's guest services and update the rooms and amenities. But then again, we didn't go to Jama…

Ok, so my little brother decided to get married.  Despite my warnings to run now while he still has a chance or even to deploy quickly and we will claim he moved and left no forwarding address, but alas he says he loves this woman so there apparently was no stopping this one.    S…

I went to Jamaica with my Church Youth group. We stayed in the interior mountains of Jamaica, in a little town called Bamboo, and visited orphanages, hospitals, schools, and built a home for a family. We had a day off where we went to the coast. A very unique experience.

I don't think anyone expected what happened this year in the Olympics. Those of us who are avid track and field fans were hoping for the best and were given new hope as athletes we have long suspected as dopers -Marion Jones etc- were finally caught and now the real competition could start. It was …

We woke up to our usual routine of breakfast before hitting the beach. We planned a more active day than the previous day so we enjoyed the water after breakfast and went into the pool on the other side of the resort. A game of chess exercised our brain for 15 minutes before Finelle and I - eventua…

"Gonna meet a little girl in Kingston Town."  I used to sing that song during school assemblies when I was a pup.  The romance of the idea was lost on me back then but as I got older and my taste in music developed to my discovery of Reggae as something fantastic I knew I had to go there,…

Part of the requirements for the program were to visit two beaches near Kingston: Hellshire Beach and Lime Cay.  This was because Hellshire was the beach for "the masses" whereas Lime Cay is more frequented by the upper-class.  Much of this difference is do simply to accessibility.  …

Our final day in Port Maria.  Tidy up the apartment and farewell to our playmate Ruff.  He has fetched and destroyed many soft drink bottles and has been a good surrogate cocker spaniel for us! We cross over the market and into the space that is called the bus station on the seafront.&nb…