Jamaica

S Hotel Jamaica

Price per night from$403.97

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Style

Sandy-soled sophisticate

Setting

MoBay’s big-name beach

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Set just off the hustling Hip Strip and backing onto the city’s best-loved beach, S Hotel in Montego Bay is a Caribbean retreat with a sun-charged spring in its step. Between the three bars and two restaurants – larders all suitably loaded with locally sourced fare – even the ficklest of gourmands will be spoiled for rum-sipping, seafood-sampling choice. You can play Goldilocks with your pick of ray-catching spots, too – will you plump for a super-sized lounger at the palm-fringed main pool, a sunset-facing cabana after a rooftop paddle or powdery sand between your toes on Doctor’s Cave Beach? And if all that decision-making proves a little too taxing, let the wisdom of the ancients guide you to the Roman-inspired spa and baths.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

120, including 59 suites.

Check–Out

11am. Earliest check-in, 3pm. Both are flexible, subject to availability.

Prices

Double rooms from £404.36 ($505), including tax at 25 per cent.

More details

Rates usually include a breakfast buffet and à la carte options at the Marketplace restaurant or S Café.

Also

You're in luck, lovebirds. The hotel hosts weddings, too, so you can tie the knot in swooning distance of Doctor's Cave Beach.

At the hotel

Spa, gym, beach access, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, coffee machine, minibar, free bottled water, bathrobes, yoga mats, and air-conditioning.

Our favourite rooms

Plump for a suite to enjoy the sweeping sea views over a private balcony breakfast – or soak it in from your outsized ocean-facing tub.

Poolside

The main pool is just steps from Doctor’s Cave Beach, but the cosy cabanas, cherry-red loungers and choice cocktails from the bar make staying put all day a seriously tempting prospect. The Sky Deck rooftop pool and bar is the place for a sunset paddle, complete with tapas, tipples and top-notch views.

Spa

An extensive menu of massages, manicures and more await at the Irie Spa and Baths, where treatments involve a stress-melting (and sunburn-soothing) mixture of Sothys products and locally made skincare. There’s also a sauna and three subterranean plunge pools, inspired by the ache-easing baths of ancient Rome. You’ll find a hair salon onsite too, so no need for blowout-saving timidity when you go for your ocean dip.

Packing tips

Between the personal trainers, yoga sessions and state-of-the-art gym, you’ll want to make room for your Sweaty Betty best alongside the bikinis and Bermuda shorts. Leave the yoga mat at home, though – you’ll find one in your room.

Also

Unfortunately, the hotel is not wheelchair accessible.

Children

Leave the little Smiths at home – this grown-up getaway is for over-18s only.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Snag a spot on Rocksteady’s covered deck to watch the sun set between the palms.

Dress Code

Chic kaftans and sea salt-tousled hair are the must-have accessories at Marketplace, but swap the cozzie and flip-flops for crisp linens and floaty frocks to dine at Rocksteady.

Hotel restaurant

Come hungry, folks. With two main restaurants, a café and an alfresco grill, there’s much feeding to be fitted between the pool-hopping and tan-honing. Rocksteady, the hotel’s culinary headline act, is a celebration of some of Jamaica’s finest homegrown goodies. The menu spotlights the country’s fresh-caught seafood and regional specialities, and prints by legendary local artist Michael ‘Freestylee’ Thompson deck out the light-flooded dining room.

Pull up a white-rattan pew in Marketplace for a more casual bite. With a hearty morning buffet of local favourites on offer, breakfast here is hard to beat, but between the irie atmosphere and ocean views, we wouldn’t blame you for lingering for a long alfresco lunch…and dinner. Poolside, there’s a menu of salads, made-to-order sandwiches and fresh-off-the-grill specialties to tuck into; or head up to the Sky Deck for a selection of tapas come sundown. And, in case you’re still hungry, S Café – your stop for pastries, fresh-pressed juices and pulls of Blue Mountain espresso – is open 24 hours to keep you in round-the-clock rations.

Hotel bar

After a hard morning’s sunning and splashing, a classic cocktail or ice-cold Red Stripe goes down swimmingly. Grab one at the pool bar and grill, alongside a lunch menu of sandwiches, salads and freshly squeezed juices. At the rooftop bar, craft cocktails are poured within paddling distance of your cabana. Chase your tropical tipple of choice with a selection of tapas and swoon-inducing sunset views. Come nightfall, toast the Caribbean’s golden-child export over a piña colada or gutsy rum punch at the Lobby bar. Here, the bartenders mix up a curated list of local-favourite cocktails, so you’ll be seeing in the small hours like you’re MoBay born-and-bred.

Last orders

Marketplace is open from 7am to 10pm, dinner is served at Rocksteady from 6pm to 10pm, and S Café is your 24-hour snack spot. The pool bar and grill is open from 11am to 6pm, and the Lobby bar will keep you in good spirits 5pm to 1am.

Room service

A full room service menu is available from 6am to 11pm, so you needn’t stray from your suite when you get snacky.

Location

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Address
S Hotel Jamaica
7 Jimmy Cliff Boulevard
Montego Bay
Jamaica

Jamaica’s S Hotel calls Montego Bay’s bustling Hip Strip home, with the city’s famous Doctor’s Cave Beach within splashing distance of the palm-shaded pool.

Planes

Sangster International Airport is just a five-minute drive away. Flights from major North American cities including New York and Miami, as well as seasonal direct flights from London Heathrow and Gatwick, touch down there. The hotel can arrange transfers on request – it’s US$15 each way for up to three passengers.

Automobiles

If you fancy heading out beyond the Hip Strip, it’s a good idea to hire a car. The main coastal routes are well maintained, but ask at the hotel before adventuring too far off the beaten track to avoid pothole-related hiccups. There’s a free private car park at the hotel.

Worth getting out of bed for

Let the siren song of lapping waves and laidback reggae beats lure you out of bed bright and early – you’ve got a packed to-do list of sun soaking and cocktail swigging here in the hotel. Breakfast treats and Blue Mountain coffee beckon in the Marketplace restaurant and breezy S Café. Still bleary-eyed? Pop out for a pick-me-up paddle in the main pool – or swim straight out for a catnap in a cabana – then stroll down to Doctor’s Cave Beach to dose up on white sands and vitamin sea. Gym bunnies can bounce over to the fitness centre for a personal training session or jump into a yoga class at the spa. For those with less spring in their step, the sauna, hydrotherapy pools and full menu of massages are on hand to soothe swim-sore muscles. Take in the sunset over tapas at the rooftop pool, then wrap up the day – and wave in the new one – with a late-night tipple at the Lobby bar.

Head straight out of the hotel and you’ll hit the Hip Strip. This is your one-stop street for novelty trinkets and rum-laced tipples, soundtracked till the small hours by smooth reggae and the sizzle from jerk restaurants. Hungry to explore MoBay’s heritage heft? The National Museum West is home to exhibitions on the history of Jamaica, and the National Gallery West highlights the region’s homegrown artistic talent. Montego Bay Marine Park has made impressive strides to protect the local life aquatic. Unlock your inner Attenborough with some bird-watching and barracuda-befriending from the safety of a glass-bottomed boat, or see out the day on a mangrove-shaded sunset tour. Further afield, a rafting excursion on the Martha Brae River might float your (bamboo) boat. Fear not, the raft captain will see to the steering, filling you in on the local wildlife and legends along the way. All you need to do is sit back and soak in the vine-draped view.

Local restaurants

Sustainably sourced local seafood takes a starring role at Marguerite’s, a waterfront home turned well-heeled dining hotspot. Score yourself a table and you’ll be treated to a fresh fish dinner paired with plantain, callaloo and other Caribbean classics. For a home-style Jamaican feast, follow the locals to family-run jerk joint Pelican Grill – their signature spice rubs and sizzling seasonal menu have made them the MoBay go-to for decades.

Local bars

If you’re up for a north-coast road trip, you won’t find a better spot for a sundowner than Rick’s Café in Negril. Soaking in bucket-list-worthy sunsets from its perch on the West End Cliffs, this relaxed bar and restaurant has been the hangout of choice for cliff divers and daiquiri-downers alike since the town’s hippie heyday of the Seventies. Recently, it’s been named one of the ‘1,000 places to see before you die’, so we’d say this old-timer on the rocks has still got it.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this beachside hotel in Montego Bay and unpacked their Red Stripe and surf shorts, a full account of their Caribbean break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside S Hotel Jamaica…

From its privileged position on the medicinally soul-soothing sands of Doctor’s Cave Beach, S Hotel could easily have adopted a swankier-than-thou superiority complex. Instead, everything here feels authentically irie (as they say here). Much of the hotel sports the classic monochrome and sandy neutrals long-beloved of boutique beachside stays, but they’ve sidestepped the one-size-fits-all resort getup in favour of curated local flourishes: clusters of carved-wood sculptures greet you in the lobby, and bold-hued posters by Kingston-born artist Freestylee make for kaleidoscopic mealtime viewing.

There’s no skimping on the luxe life, but it’s all set to a distinctly MoBay beat. In the spa, lotions made by local artisans are applied alongside luxury Sothys of Paris products. Dining here hits the same sweet spot – Rocksteady restaurant crafts elegant seafood suppers of the day’s catch, but swing by the pool and you’ll catch the cinnamon-spiced waft of jerk specialities sizzling on the grill. Even the hotel’s setting, skirted by the hustle of the Hip Strip but also wave-lapped white sands, lend the place both a sea-salt-scented calm and gentle reggae rhythm. If it’s a well-balanced slice of MoBay’s bounty you’re hunting, S very much marks the spot.

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