Where to go, and when · with the homework done
NEGRIL · WHERE TO STAY · BY ZONE Negril has no downtown to sleep in and no rail line to rescue a bad address. Nearly every bed in town sits along one of two roads: Norman Manley Boulevard behind Seven Mile Beach, or West End Road along the cliffs. The rest are on the hill … Read more
NEGRIL · THINGS TO DO · WATER, CLIFFS, MORASS Wind sets the order of a Negril day. The sea off Long Bay is at its glassiest early, which is why snorkel boats and catamarans leave in the morning, and why the ladders and jump ledges along West End Road belong to the hours after lunch, … Read more
MONTEGO BAY · IS IT SAFE? · THE STRIP, THE WATER, THE RIDE HOME Most of what goes wrong here is a transaction rather than a crime. Visitors come home describing much the same short list: someone selling hard on the sand, a phone that left a bar table, a dark stretch of coast road … Read more
MONTEGO BAY · AIRPORT TO CITY · MBJ TO YOUR HOTEL DOOR You land at Sangster International, and for once in Jamaica the hotel is already close. The terminal stands at the city’s eastern edge, with Gloucester Avenue and the Hip Strip a short run west of it and the Ironshore and Rose Hall resort … Read more
MONTEGO BAY · 3 DAYS · ONE BASE, THREE DIRECTIONS Three days is the length Montego Bay handles well. It is long enough to swim in the city, run the coast road east to Rose Hall and Falmouth, and still keep the river side of town for a morning. It is short enough that changing … Read more
MONTEGO BAY · DAY TRIPS · WEST, EAST AND OVER THE HILLS Montego Bay’s day trips run on one advantage: the island’s fastest road starts here and goes east. Falmouth is close enough for an afternoon, Ocho Rios fits between breakfast and dinner if the alarm goes early, and the west coast road delivers Negril … Read more
