Safe, friendly area. Airport shuttle $35/1-2+$10 pp. Free coffee/tea. For fee: A.C. $1/hr, tours, massage, braids, meals/lessons! Double bed, full bath, kitchen, living/dining rm/twin bed, veranda/private entrance. Access to hammock, roof lounge. 1 block: grocery, cook shop, route taxis $1US, 10 min. to Harmony Beach, center city, farmer market, bus, then $1, or walk, to 'Hip Strip' shops, dancing, dining, Dr Cave beach. Health/tour tip, JM&Rastahistory, culture. Click profile pic for all rms. Note: We’re committed to AirBnB’s Cleaning Standards: We sanitize high-touch surfaces, down to the doorknobs, using approved cleaners, wearing disposable gloves. We clean each room using a cleaning checklist. We provide extra cleaning supplies, so you can clean as you stay, if you wish: paper towels, disposable gloves, multi-surface cleaner, wipes or spray, antibacterial hand sanitizer, and extra hand soap. 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. Free coffee/tea. Welcome, Jah B and Cheri, your resident hosts, live on the second floor and are available to provide, by arrangement: chef service/lessons, health coaching, transport, tours, local culture/stories, dominos, and music. We’re 20 minutes from the MoBay airport, nearer to bus stations, taxi stands, and 'Hip Strip/Jimmy Cliff Blvd' beaches, dancing at Margaritaville, Pier 1, Rehab Sports Bar, and Clock Tower, and shopping the straw market shops for local crafts, carvings, and clothing. Experience the local scene in Mobay, and suburb Jerkys open-air restaurant, health food store, ATMs, currency exchanges, hardware, pharmacies, department stores, bookstores, large supermarkets, and casino. View/breeze on verandas/roof deck 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. Suites: 1st fl. One Love Suite: sleeps 7: 1 double bed and 1 single bed(Jamaican Apple), private bath; Jamaica Flower (sleep 4): 2 double beds , adjacent bath; shared living/dining/kitchen/veranda/separate entrance. 2nd fl. One Heart Suite: sleeps 6: Hummingbird, 1 queen bed private bath; Blue Mahoe: queen bed, adjacent bath; Purple Haze, 1 double bed shared liv/din/kitchen; share hall bathroom with Blue Mahoe. Apartment: Mango Island: sleep 3: one double bedroom, full bath, kitchen, dining area living room with sofa and single bed, cable TV, private veranda entrance. The suites, one on each floor have separate entrances but can be joined together for larger groups, along with the apartment and 2-room suite on roof deck (Cloud 9). Total capacity 15. Our guest home overlooks Montego Bay, the ocean and mountains, so there’s always a cool breeze and views from our roof deck and verandas. All are welcome to the roof deck and 2nd-floor veranda. We enjoy interacting with our guests, and are also fine with giving you your own separate space . . . whatever you desire. We are here to help you have the best vacation possible. Check out the excellent reviews from our prior guests. Jah B is an excellent chef for meals and juices prepared with fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, fish and chicken from the nearby farmers’ market. If you wish, he’ll guide you through the market, and provide cooking lessons (small fee). He’s a great ‘selector’ of CD love songs, soul and reggae music. Cheri, a certified health education coach, enjoys sharing her miracle recovery from cancer using natural healing methods. She also loves hearing about the guests' travels and lives, and providing info on Jamaica sites, history, etc. 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. We'll pick you up and take you back to the airport for $35 1-2 person/trip, or $10 each extra (less than airport taxi). We'll be glad to arrange other transportation and tours as well. If you've driven expertly in Jamaica, NY, Rome or Caracas, only then, consider renting your own car! We both love to introduce our guests (Kings and Queens) to the beautiful beaches and countryside, cultural history, folktales, and the variety of attractions. Montego Bay is the second largest city in Jamaica and preferred destination for most Jamaican tourists. We like to tour guests to the amazing ahh RasNatango Garden and Gallery, and the Rastafari indigenous village (each about 1/2 hr away). It's an hour (+) from Negril (Calico Jack's, Chukka horseback riding, Rick’s Café, Bourbon Beach, The Jungle (dance club), Barney’s Hummingbird Garden), less time to Falmouth (Glistening Water), an hour (+) to Ocho Rios (Dunns River Falls, Blue Hole, Fern Gully, Dophins Cove, Mystic Mountain – sky ride, zipline, bobsled rides), and three hours to the South Coast (Treasure Beach, Black River, YS Falls, Alligator Tours, Appleton Rum Factory Tour). Cheri met Jah B in 1994 when she came to Jamaica to find the guest house she had ‘dreamed’ in 1979 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! 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. Enjoy local treats like breadfruit, Jamaica apples, June plums, 'sweet' soursop fruit, mangos, spice buns, cocoa balls, coconut drops, grape-nut ice cream, sweet potato pudding, and "blue drawers." Feast on ackee and salt fish (the national dish; ackee from our backyard tree), jerk chicken, curried goat, festival (sweet fried pastry), yam, green banana, rice and peas (red beans), and callaloo (greens), and snack on patties (veggies, chicken or beef in fried pastry). Savor mountain spring water, coconut water, lime, pineapple, soursop, cherry, and mango juices, ting (carbonated grapefruit), sorrel, ginger beer, rum cream, Red Stripe beer, and the nutritious tea from moringa or soursop leaves (from our backyard tree).