Considered the top boutique hotel in St Mary, the 14-room Galina Breeze Hotel in Galina is described in some quarters as a “hotel sitting on the edge of the Caribbean Sea”. Galina Breeze offers facilities for parties, weddings, and conferences. All...
Couples Resorts has pushed back renovation plans for its Sans Souci hotel in St Mary because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In statement online last Friday over the signature of Chairman Lee Issa, the company said: “In light of COVID-19, we have decided...
In what is considered the biggest tourism investment locally, ground was broken last Friday in Llandovery, St Ann, for the construction of the Sugarcane Bay Hotel, a US$1-billion project, which is expected to build 4,700 rooms over a 10-year period...
Miss T’s Kitchen, a restaurant in Ocho Rios, is collaborating with MSC Cruises to bring the Martha Stewart Caribbean Excursion to this resort town within a matter of weeks. Miss T’s, owned and operated by Anna-Kay Tomlinson, recently opened a new...
For the fifth straight year, Island Gigs took the Bright Side Festival to the Jewel Paradise Cove in Runaway Bay, with reggae music the featured genre for the second consecutive year. As customary, the hotel was booked out exclusively for fans of...
A new venture to positively impact the environment of three parishes along the north coast was started recently when Mystic Mountain Rainforest Foundation launched the Youth Environment and Tourism Project. The project sees schools in St Mary, St...
The recently refurbished Riu Ocho Rios has expressed delight at being given a special award at the 2019 RJRGLEANER Hospitality Jamaica Awards. The hotel picked up the Special Award for Investment in Tourism after a massive US$85 million upgrade to...
It appears Hospitality Jamaica’s (HJ) Most Eco/Sustainable Award could have gone to any other hotel but Jamaica Inn. The long list of green initiatives at the hotel is implemented “with vigour and enthusiasm. There is no other way at Jamaica Inn,”...
Over the years, the resort town of Ocho Rios, St Ann, has won several tourism-related international awards, but there is always a special feeling when the award comes from your peers. Last week, at its annual awards ceremony, Hospitality Jamaica...
Hotels on Jamaica’s north coast continue to welcome local guests and Jamaicans continue to take up the offers. Newly promoted Senior Superintendent of Police Stephanie Lindsay and her batchmates who graduated from the Police Academy on November 12...
With six hotels and over 3,000 rooms available locally, RIU Hotel caters to the major tourism markets across the world, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The brand, however, has maintained its interest in the local market and is...
A spanking new water park and 45 new rooms that bring the room stock to 901, are the main features of the J$11.22-billion refurbishing exercise recently completed at RIU Ocho Rios. Additionally, though, there has been a complete renovation of the...
Riu Montego Bay will close in April 2020 for a refurbishing exercise and reopen in September as an adults-only property, according to Niurka Garcia-Linton, director of sales for RIU Hotels in Jamaica. The closure is similar to what took place at...
Attractions at Dunn’s River Falls and Park in Ocho Rios just got a bit more diversified with the official opening of the Chukka’s Zipline Over Dunn’s River Falls tour last Friday. In operation since November 2017 and proving to be a hit with...
Judith O’Sullivan has become the third woman to be elected to the Jamaica Co-operative Automobile and Limousine (JCAL) Tours Limited board in the organisation’s 30 years. The tourism marketing consultant was also the first female from the Ocho Rios...
The annual Moon Palace Foundation Summer Art Camp that ended recently at Moon Palace Jamaica in Ocho Rios provided more than just fun for the children of employees at the hotel. Manager of the foundation, Natalie Boreland, declared the annual camp...
It’s a story that seems to justify the labelling of Jamaica as a paradise, with Couples Tower Isle resort being the preferred spot. Over the past 48 years, Gene and Jane Saks of Florida in the United States has made a staggering 89 visits to...
