Topaz Dream Palace Wi-Fi, Hot Water, AC $1 hr

Airport ride $35/1-2 +$10/pp. Safe friendly area. Nearby grocery stores, cook shops, ice cream, Cambio, taxi ($1USDpp/%130JMDpp) 10-minute ride to mid-town, bus park, free Harmony beach, museums; then walk or $1USD taxi to dining, dancing, shopping, Dr Cave beach. Live-in hosts. Rooftop Sky Lounge. Extras for fee: AC $1 hr/unit, in-house detox, massage, braids, cooking class/meals, tours, physical therapy, transport. Tips: health, culture/history. Click hosts' photo to book separate bedrooms. The space There are 5 bedrooms (7 beds). : Ground/1st fl. One Heart Suite: Jamaica Flower, 2 double beds, an adjacent bath.: sleeps up to 4; Jamaica Apple, 1 double bed, 1 single bed, shared living/dining room, large kitchen, veranda with private entrance; 2nd fl: One Love Suite: 3 bedrooms (3 beds): Hummingbird (queen bed and private bath), Blue Mahoe (queen bed and adjacent bath), Purple Haze (double bed; share hallway bath with Blue Mahoe). Ground floor: Mango Island Apartment: one double bedroom, bath, kitchen, living room with double bed, private veranda and entrance. Roof: Cloud 9 for Lovers Sweet Suite (on roof deck): queen bed (sparkling lights on ceiling optional), kitchenette, jacuzzi/shower. (2) All welcome to roof deck, enclosed Sky Lounge and workspace. Mosquito mesh on all windows, verandas. Views/breezes on verandas/roof deck. Our guest home is high up, overlooking Montego Bay, the ocean, and mountains, so there’s always a cool breeze and views from our roof deck and verandas. Reggae music is usually wafting through the air from the nearby corner of indoor markets, takeout food, ice cream, and other local neighborhood services. Mackies, a well-known local sports bar, is a few blocks away. There are churches in the area. Be amazed at the mountain view, botanical garden and art gallery at the nearby Ahh Rasnatango Gardens and Gallery, and the neon glow of Glistening Waters, a rare phenomenon. You can enjoy the living rooms, kitchens, dining areas, and verandas. The two suites, one on each floor have separate entrances but can be joined together for larger groups, along with the apartment, and roof deck Cloud 9. Topaz Dream Palace Jamaican Homestyle Sample Menu Prepared by Chef Jah B with TLC; By request by the eve before. Ital meals also available. Healthy coconut oil is used for fried foods and when oil is called for in heated dishes. Items are subject to seasonal availability. Sample choices: Morning Gratis: High (Blue) Mountain coffee, or tea (i.e., ginger, mint, green tea, noni, nutritious sour-sop leaves from yard, or garlic). Plus, sometimes banana. $2.50 USD: (small juice glass): i.e., mango carrot, guava pineapple, lime in coconut water. $8.00USD A. Fruit and/or green smoothie with selection when available: juiced pineapple, mango, banana, papaya, melon, chia, flax, ginger, spirulina, callaloo, bok choy, lettuce B. Callaloo/cabbage, fried plantain, and fried dumplings or festival (or breadfruit in season) C. Fresh fruit banana, pau pau/papaya, pineapple, watermelon, cantaloupe, mango D. Ackee* with/wo salt fish (national breakfast), yam, green banana, festival (sweet fried bread) E. Pancakes, scrambled eggs (with tomato, onion, green pepper), and turkey sausage. F. Oatmeal with selection: cinnamon/cane sugar, honey, almonds, raisons, banana, chia Mid-day or Evening $8.00USD choice of: A. Green/fruit Smoothie or Tossed Fresh Salad: selection of dark green lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, green pepper, carrot, tomato, onion, almonds, sunflower, chia, pumpkin seeds, pear/called avocado (Aug.-Sept.), and dressing B. Soup: pumpkin, chicken, fish, Rasta sip (red bean-based with vegetables) C. Pasta: with broccoli, cauliflower, carrot, tomato, onion, with or without tomato sauce D. $14 USD: Chicken: curried, brown-stewed, fried, or jerk E. $16 USD: Fish: Red Snapper: steamed, fried, brown-stewed, Trout steak: fried, brown-stewed, or F. $16 USD: Beef: ox-tail, brown-stewed, or hamburger (minced beef) Entries served with 3 choices: Rice ‘n peas (red beans); stewed peas (seasoned red beans with some veggies); yam (renter, sweet, yellow), dasheen (taro/coco), and/or pumpkin; callaloo, cooked cabbage, or salad. *Ackee: yellow fruit with taste/look/texture similar to scrambled eggs. Only eat from tree when self-opened. Cheri met Jah B in 1994 when she came to Jamaica to find the guest house she had ‘dreamed’ in 1979 that she was to have in retirement. Instead, she met Jah B; they instantly fell in love and were married in 1996, raising two sons in Philadelphia. In 2007, the time was right for Jah B, with a contractor friend and family expertise, to build our guest home. The name combines our November birthstones—topaz, plus both our dreams, plus it looks like a palace, doesn’t it! Be ready to be treated like the Queens and Kings you are! Guest access You can enjoy the living rooms, kitchens, dining areas and verandas. The three suites, one on first floor, one on second floor, one on roof, have separate entrances but can be joined together for larger groups. All are welcome to the roof deck. Other things to note MoBay Sumfest is mid-July (a week of all-night reggae artists); Emancipation Day Aug 1; Independence Day Aug 6; and much more. The Maroon Festival high in the Mountains (celebrates the peace treaty that successful runaway enslaved Africans signed with British in 1739), Jan. 6; Rebel Salute (a two "night-long" reggae stage show around Jan 15 nearer Ocho Rios; the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival in January, TBA in Ocho Rios; Bob Marley celebrations (Feb. 1-6 mostly in Kingston). Climb Dunns River Falls, go zip-lining and bobsledding, drive through Fern Gully and Bamboo Avenue, express ahhh as you visit with the botanical artists at Rasnatango Gardens and Gallery, feed hummingbirds close-up, experience cliff jumping at the famous Rick's Cafe, go rafting on the Martha Brae, and snorkeling with Captain Poly's glass bottom boat, add 10 years to your life by swimming in the rare sparkling Luminous Lagoon, tour the Green Grotto Cave, go horseback riding in the mountains and along the ocean, bike ride through the Blue Mountains, enjoy the 7-levels of YS Falls, tour the Appleton Rum Estate and factory, dine in the Houseboat Grill, Pier 1 and the Pelican Grill, dance at Margaritaville, Pier 1, Clock Tower, Jazzy Blue Beat and The Jungle(Negril) , hang out at Sports Bars -- Mackie's, Rehab, Powers, the Brewery, go to services in the St. James Anglican church, built in 1775.