Jamaica received a big international boost after the S Hotel in Montego Bay ranked as the No1 All-Inclusive Caribbean resort in the USA TODAY newspaper.
The award came in the paper’s 10 Best Readers’ Choice Awards 2024 voting. Edmund Bartlett, Jamaica’s Tourism Minister, said: “S Hotel has delivered. Their fulsome embrace of Jamaican culture combined with elevated levels of customer service and a penchant for going beyond has earned them pride of place. They have set a unique standard, and we always applaud our tourism establishments that continually makes all of Jamaica and her people proud. Kudos to the team and we salute their award-winning efforts.”
The hotel was voted Jamaica’s Leading Hotel in the 2023 World Travel Awards and recently it was ranked the No1 resort in the Caribbean and Central America and an impressive 16th globally on the Conde Nast 2023 Best Hotels in the World Readers’ Choice Awards.
Jamaican culture and heritage are on display throughout the award-winning hotel including sculptures of renowned and historic people; a pair of 12-feet long boots are adorned in traditional Jamaican colours; a reggae and dancehall themed nightclub, named S Club, on its outskirts among other cute displays.
S Hotel is a Jamaican-owned, managed and staffed resort on the famous Jimmy Cliff Boulevard in Montego Bay. It is the only luxury hotel located on the celebrated Doctor’s Cave Beach. The all-inclusive S Hotel Jamaica welcomes ages 16 and over and offers an array of culinary options, wellness amenities, guest experiences and local excursions. S Hotel features buzzing bars, a 24-hour chic café, pool, sky-high suites, a variety of restaurants featuring authentic Jamaican and international cuisine, a subterranean (irie baths) spa with three plunge pools and sauna, a cultural centre, gym and rooms with a design aesthetic thoughtfully combined into a modern sensibility with an effervescent sense of place.
Guests are treated to a visual history lesson on every floor with impressive life-size sculptures made from recycled material of national heroes such as Samuel Sharpe and Marcus Garvey and National Heroine Nanny of the Maroons.
There are also statues of music legends Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff. There is a monument in honour of the Reggae Girlz footballers as well as sprint king Usain Bolt. Works by Tamara Harding are included. She is a local lumber artist whose pieces feature wood recycled from trees removed from the property during construction.
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