Where to go, and when · with the homework done
MONTEGO BAY VS NEGRIL · THE DECISION · SETTLED PROPERLY The Caribbean’s most-asked either/or deserves better than “both have beaches.” So: Montego Bay is Jamaica’s front door — the airport, the grande-dame resorts, the golf, the infrastructure — while Negril is its philosophy: one long sunset-facing beach, cliffs with bars attached, and a town that … Read more
JAMAICA · WHAT TO PACK · THE SHORT LIST THAT WORKS Jamaica is the easiest packing job in this site’s catalog and still gets fumbled weekly, always the same three ways: sun protection sized for a weekend instead of a tropic, nothing for the afternoon downpour that owns the summer calendar, and no repellent on … Read more
JAMAICA · 7 DAYS · TWO BASES, ONE ISLAND A Jamaican week has a natural shape, and it isn’t the resort brochure’s (seven identical pool days) or the checklist’s (five bases, all spent in vans). It’s two bases: the west’s sunset languor and the north coast’s waterfall energy, joined by one scenic driving day, with … Read more
JAMAICA · SHOULD YOU DRIVE? · THE VERDICT BY TRIP TYPE In Portugal we wrote a rental guide because you’ll probably rent. Jamaica earns a different page, because the first question isn’t which car. It’s whether driving yourself makes your trip better at all. For a solid majority of visitors the answer is no, and … Read more
JAMAICA · TRIP COST · THE ALL-INCLUSIVE QUESTION, PRICED Jamaica’s bill has a fork in it that Portugal’s doesn’t: the island practically invented the all-inclusive resort, and your single biggest money decision is whether to take the wristband or build the trip à la carte. Both are legitimate Jamaicas at genuinely different price logics. This … Read more
JAMAICA · THE YEAR, MONTH BY MONTH · 18.1° N Jamaica doesn’t do seasons the way a calendar does: days sit in the 80s°F every month of the year, the sea never drops below bath-warm, and the real variables are rain, storms and the price of a room. That’s good news for planners, because it … Read more
