Half Moon Montego Bay
Hotel Information: Queen Elizabeth II stays here when visiting Jamaica. Fidel Castro slept here. The Jamaican prime minister brings visiting dignitaries to lunch. Since 1954 when it opened as a cluster of cottages, the resort has welcomed luminaries, celebrities, and not-so-famous couples and families from around the world seeking relaxation in a plantation-style resort redolent with Jamaica's English-colonial past.
The resort constitutes a vast botanical preserve, with a 25-acre protected wetland. All manner of mature palms, trees, shrubs, bushes, and blossoms grace the 400 acres. Semi-secret places are everywhere, some with benches facing lawns screened by dense foliage, others with bird baths and statues, and others consisting of dense tree groves. Surprises such as tree stumps carved in bird and sealife images and sculpted bushes pop up. Attention to ecology earned the resort admission to the Caribbean Green Hall of Fame.
Insider tip: The Bob Marley Experience, a 68-seat theater showing a free video biography and offering souvenirs, is located in the resort's Shopping Village, which also includes a 24-bed hospital, a dentist, a bank, a post office, a grocery, a beauty shop, an English pub, and a public school.
Guests may book either an All-Inclusive plan or a Room-Only (No Meals) plan. The All-Inclusive plan includes meals, drinks, gratuities and the majority of resort-offered amenities and activities. The Room-Only (No Meals) plan does NOT include meals, drinks, gratuities, and certain resort-offered amenities (scroll up to the All-Inclusive Plan Details section for more information). The Half Moon's 419 guestrooms and suites in small, two-story buildings and beachfront cottages have Queen Anne-style furniture, minibars, bathrobes, VCR and DVD players, and televisions offering U.S. cable channels. |
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