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A Caribbean bay on Curaçao in strong midday sun: brilliant turquoise water, a bright white-sand beach with thatched shade, and a green headland behind it
Starting in the Caribbean

Find your Caribbean

Same sea, completely different holidays. We help you understand the places, stays and inclusions before you choose.

Start with Jamaica Places we stayed
From our travels

Inside our overwater bungalow and villa stays in Jamaica

We stayed in the overwater accommodations four times—once in a regular bungalow and three times in the larger villas. See our photographs, villa walkthrough and the details we still remember.

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A wooden deck built out over the sea in bright daylight, with a tiled plunge pool flush with the deck, a furled parasol and steel handrail in the water and pale reef showing through toward the horizon.

More from our travels

A turquoise swim-up pool with a curved stone edge and flowering shrubs, with a strip of sand, a thatched-roof beach bar and the calm sea beyond it.
Negril, Jamaica

Sandals Negril

The swim-up suite, Seven Mile Beach, Jamaican food and the quiet evenings that kept bringing us back.

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The beach and turquoise water seen through a sliding window from inside the villa, with palms and a striped roof in the foreground.
Turks & Caicos

Beaches Turks & Caicos

How a four-bedroom villa near the beach gave seven family members room to stay together comfortably.

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A tiled plunge pool in the foreground with a palm frond overhanging, and a turquoise bay with a thatched shade hut on a rock jetty beyond it.
Antigua

Cocobay Resort, Antigua

A quieter couples stay with a private plunge pool, bay views and hummingbirds outside our accommodation.

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Heart-shaped arrangement of Sandals South Coast overwater villas in Jamaica

Places I'd Like to Experience

Sandals South Coast Overwater Villas

A distinctive collection of overwater butler villas on Jamaica's quieter southwest coast—and one of the stays still on my travel wish list.

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Whitehouse, Jamaica

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What are you actually going for?

Seven Mile Beach at Negril, Jamaica: flat pale sand, calm turquoise water and palms along the shore

Beaches

Long, flat, walkable — or a quiet cove.

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A white bowl of braised oxtail in its own dark gravy with a butter bean, served beside rice and peas flecked with kidney beans

Food

Oxtail, jerk, patties — and eating off-property.

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Water cascading over the wide terraced rock face of Dunn's River Falls near Ocho Rios, Jamaica

Water

Rivers, falls, reefs, overwater rooms.

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Resort pool deck with loungers looking out to the sea

Places to stay

All-inclusive, adults-only, swim-up, villa.

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Green ridges and valleys of the Blue Mountains in Jamaica under a hazy sky

Blue Mountains

Coffee country, and cool air above the coast.

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Sun setting over the sea in Jamaica, with the sky and water lit orange

Sunsets & cliffs

The famous one is not on the beach.

Thematic imagery. Full credits are listed at the foot of the page.

Start with a place

We begin with Jamaica. Montego Bay, Negril and Ocho Rios are areas within it, and each makes a different kind of week.

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Jamaica

Jamaica

Three very different resort coasts under one flag — the choice that matters most is which one, not which island.

  • ✓All-inclusive value
  • ✓A choice of very different resort areas
  • ✓Beach and waterfall variety
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Montego Bay

The widest choice of resorts in Jamaica, and convenient for shorter stays.

See it in the Jamaica guide

Negril

Best known for its long beach and the West End cliffs.

See it in the Jamaica guide

Trip ideas by style

Pick the shape of the trip first.

A family week where the adults still get an evening

A family week where the adults still get an evening

Children's programming and adult dining, looked at separately.

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All-inclusive, done with your eyes open

All-inclusive, done with your eyes open

Line-by-line inclusions and the items that quietly cost extra.

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Jamaica planning guides

The guides we have finished so far, in the order they usually matter.

Guide

Jamaica

Jamaica's three main resort areas make genuinely different holidays. Here is what each one is like, what an all-inclusive rate covers, and what to sort out first.

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All-inclusive or not: what each kind of week was actually like for us

We have enjoyed all-inclusive stays at Sandals and Beaches, and a breakfast-only stay at the Negril Tree House. Here is what each kind of week was actually like for us.

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Jamaica family resorts: family-friendly without forgetting the adults

Most family resort guides cover the children's side and stop. This one covers both: what your children actually get, hour by hour, and whether you get an evening.

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How we work

We publish fewer pages, later, and check accommodation details against what each resort publishes itself. Inclusions change, so we tell you what to confirm.

How we research

Photo credits

Creator, licence and source for every photograph on this page.