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Half Moon in Rose Hall, Jamaica |
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Half Moon
Rosehall Main Road
Rose Hall, Jamaica
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| Caribbean classic favored by dignitaries, families This long-established destination resort near Montego Bay provides a complete vacation, from water sports to horseback riding. Guest accommodations range from rooms to suites to five-bedroom villas with private pools, housekeeper, cook, and butler. A shuttle whisks guests to tranquil beaches, swimming pools, health spa, golf course, shopping village, and children's center.
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Amenities | Recreation | Features | Reviews
Half Moon Amenities
A health spa includes complimentary women's and men's saunas and steam rooms and, for surcharges, treatments such as Jamaican Bush Bath. A couples pavilion includes a two-person spa tub, twin tables, ceiling mirror, and cushioned lounge chairs for services such as Lovers' Fantasy (candlelight, music, champagne). A business center offers high-speed Internet access (surcharges), with wireless access (surcharge) available in the lobby and the Hibiscus section. A games room contains video games (surcharges), with video, DVD-player, and DVD rentals available. Ground transportation:
Shuttle vans and private cars of varying prices are available. They can be reserved during the process of booking a reservation for this hotel, via this Web site, and added to the total trip cost.
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Recreation
The resort's Hibiscus section features a 46-m (152-ft) freeform pool with water spouts and swim-up bar; a four-lane, 25-m (27.5-yd) lap pool; and between them a 6-by-2.5m (20-by-8-ft) waterfall pool with barstools. In the Oleander Area outside La Baguette restaurant/bar is a 17-m (56-ft) irregularly shaped pool. The resort's 2-km (1.25-mi) Caribbean Sea frontage features Sunset Beach on calm, crescent-shaped Half Moon Bay, the center of swimming and nonmotorized water sports. To the east, long, uncrowded Sunrise Beach (protected by an artificial reef) offers motorized sports, sunbathing, and encounters with two Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (surcharges) in a lagoon pen. For surcharges, guests enjoy windsurfing, kayaking, sailing, snorkeling, pedal-boating, glass-bottom-boat trips, water skiing, parasailing, banana-boating, deep-sea fishing, boat cruising, scuba-diving/snorkeling excursions, and scuba-diving instruction/certification. Complimentary recreational facilities include 13 tennis courts (four artificial grass and nine hard surface, with nine lighted), two championship croquet lawns, an 18-hole putting course, Ping Pong, pool, badminton, volleyball, horseshoes, and giant outdoor chess. For surcharges, guests can golf on an 18-hole course designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. and featuring a Georgian clubhouse; use an equestrian center offering a jumping course and beach/swim, jungle, and trail rides as well as pony rides; take guided mountain-bike tours; and play on four lighted squash courts. Also for surcharges there are lessons at David Leadbetter Golf Academy and instruction for tennis, croquet, horseback riding, and windsurfing. An enormous, complimentary fitness center provides weight-training machines and free weights in one air-conditioned room and cardio equipment and aerobics classes (surcharges) in another. Yoga, aerobics, and pool aerobics classes (surcharges) are available. Located in a quiet, secluded area shaded by trees and bamboo, a children's center includes a two-story air-conditioned clubhouse, a fish-feeding pond, playground equipment, and a thatched playhouse. Supervisors offer complimentary sessions during the day for ages 3-6 and 7-12. The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.
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Features
What to expect: Queen Elizabeth II stays here when visiting Jamaica. Fidel Castro slept here. The Jamaican prime minister brings visiting dignitaries to lunch. Since 1954 when it opened as a cluster of cottages, the resort has welcomed luminaries, celebrities, and not-so-famous couples and families from around the world seeking relaxation in a plantation-style resort redolent with Jamaica's English-colonial past. The resort constitutes a vast botanical preserve, with a 25-acre protected wetland. All manner of mature palms, trees, shrubs, bushes, and blossoms grace the 400 acres. Semi-secret places are everywhere, some with benches facing lawns screened by dense foliage, others with bird baths and statues, and others consisting of dense tree groves. Surprises such as tree stumps carved in bird and sealife images and sculpted bushes pop up. Attention to ecology earned the resort admission to the Caribbean Green Hall of Fame.
Amenity highlights: Sunset Beach on Half Moon Bay offers calm-water swimming and nonmotorized water sports. Long, uncrowded Sunrise Beach features motorized sports and encounters with two Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (surcharges) in a lagoon pen. The main pool complex consists of a freeform pool with swim-up bar, a lap pool, and, between them, a waterfall pool with barstools. A secluded children's center provides supervised activities for ages 3-6 and 7-12.
Insider tip: The Bob Marley Experience, a 68-seat theater showing a free video biography and offering souvenirs, is located in the resort's Shopping Village, which also includes a 24-bed hospital, a dentist, a bank, a post office, a grocery, a beauty shop, an English pub, and a public school.
Seagrape Terrace - Air-conditioned dining room in main building and expansive sea-view terrace seating at wrought-iron tables under buttonwood trees. (Tiny white lights on trunks after dark). Afternoon island music, nightly dance music. Buffet and à la carte breakfasts. Lunch choices such as soups, salads, sandwiches, burgers, fish, steak, jerk chicken. Dinner choices such as curried lobster salad, sweet-potato crab cakes, broiled snapper with bananas and almonds, broiled beef tenderloin. Dress code: no tee-shirts, jeans, shorts, beach sandals. Il Giardino - Located next to Seagrape Terrace. Air-conditioned dining room with gray marble floor, sponged rose walls. Sea-view terrace seating at wrought-iron tables. Italian cuisine featuring vegetables, herbs from resort garden. Dinner only. Choices such as tagliolini with shellfish in crayfish sauce, goat cheese-celery ravioli with walnut pesto, osso buco, rack of lamb, grilled swordfish. Dress code: no tee-shirts, jeans, shorts, beach sandals. Sugar Mill Restaurant - Located in garden near golf course. Adjacent to 200-year-old working water wheel. Dining-room, veranda, and terrace seating. Dinner only. Jamaican specialties such as curried crayfish bisque; chicken-pineapple stew with tumeric-passionfruit sauce; dasheen-crusted mahi mahi with ackee and tomato-basil confit; jerked chicken, pork, fish combination. Also, grilled steaks, fish. Dress code: no tee-shirts, jeans, shorts, beach sandals. La Baguette - Restaurant/bar in open-air sea-view pavilion. Pool table. Brick floor, rattan seating, colorful seat cushions, yellow walls. Open late morning to early even for burgers, hot dogs, sandwiches, salads, grilled food, tropical drinks. Open in high-occupancy periods for dinner, with choices such as steaks, lobsters, fish, chicken.
The Royal Stocks English Pub & Steakhouse - Located in Shopping Village. Traditional pub fare and Jamaican specialties for lunch and dinner. Beach Barbecue - Complimentary cocktail reception on Monday and Friday evenings followed by Caribbean buffet at picnic tables under trees festooned with lights. Steel band. Crab races. Lester's Bar - Lobby bar open midday to after midnight. Cedar Bar - Casual beachfront spot open mid-morning to late night. Beach Bar - Open mid-afternoon to late night. Royal Pavilion - Open-air bar near dolphin-encounter lagoon. Open mid-morning to early evening. 19th Hole Bar - Golf-clubhouse bar serving cocktails, beer, Jamaican beef patties from early morning to early evening. Hibiscus Bar - Pool bar with swimup side open late morning to early evening.
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Half Moon Reviews
| Traveler Ratings Summary for Half Moon
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Overall: 4.67 |
Service
4.89 |
Condition
4.78 |
Cleanliness
4.78 |
Comfort
4.44 |
Recommend
88.89 % |
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| Definitely worth a second stay |
Overall: 5 |
Service
5 |
Condition
5 |
Cleanliness
5 |
Comfort
5 |
Recommend
Yes |
| The grounds were beautiful, clean, and completely accessible. Rooms are large and comfy. Plenty of linens. Staff is courteous, accomodating and respectful. No busybodies. Food at the Seagrape Restaurant was delicious. A bit light on the portions, but good variety and satisfying. Did not have opportunity to visit two other restaurants on site. Great resort for families with children. It was truly more than I expected. Only concern: the main thoroughfare was dimly lit after hours. I preferred to walk the grounds as it was so beautiful, but as a female alone, it was unsettling at night. However, Bell Hops were available to provide shuttle escort at all hours day and night.
Reviewed by traveler from Los Angeles, CA on August 30, 2006 |
| Beautiful, romantic getaway |
Overall: 5 |
Service
4 |
Condition
5 |
Cleanliness
5 |
Comfort
4 |
Recommend
Yes |
| We stayed in a beautiful suite overlooking the ocean. The 2 rooms were well appointed and very comfortable and the huge balcony was a wonderful place to have breakfast or enjoy the sunset. There are many things to do at the resort and we took advantage of many of them as well as just relaxing at the beach directly in front of our suite. I would definitely suggest staying at a beachfront location because the scenery and easy access were really worth it. There are some parts of the property that aren't as well-maintained as others, but overall the complete experience was great. I loved our room and the ambiance at the hotel, which was very relaxed and romantic.
Reviewed by traveler from San Francisco, CA on May 30, 2006 |
| Absolutly wonderful time |
Overall: 4 |
Service
5 |
Condition
5 |
Cleanliness
5 |
Comfort
4 |
Recommend
Yes |
| The staff was amazingly nice. The resort beautiful. Wasn't clear about tips at first, and believe me, it's tipland there ... worth every penny. Restaurants outside the resort are nice, do it. The food at Half Moon is so so compared to everythng else. Yeahmon
Reviewed by traveler from Arlington, VA on May 30, 2006 |
| British colonial style |
Overall: 5 |
Service
5 |
Condition
5 |
Cleanliness
5 |
Comfort
5 |
Recommend
Yes |
| Very clean, employee well trained, and spetacular ocean view from the room. Food was not impressive, but within acceptable level.
Reviewed by traveler from New York, NY on May 30, 2006 |
| Absolutely Fabulous! |
Overall: 5 |
Service
5 |
Condition
5 |
Cleanliness
5 |
Comfort
5 |
Recommend
Yes |
| I can't say enough good things about the Half Moon. The staff was kind, helpful and professional. The grounds are beautiful and really need to be explored by bike. The golf carts are not the way to go, unless you have a disability or something the prevents biking. Plus, you need the exercise with all the amazing food you'll eat. We did the All-Inclusive Platinum Plan and HIGHLY recommend it! But, you will gain a few pounds. We didn't want to leave this island paradise. I would go back in a heart beat!
Reviewed by traveler from Seattle, WA on May 24, 2006 |
| Pleasantly surprised!! |
Overall: 4 |
Service
5 |
Condition
4 |
Cleanliness
4 |
Comfort
4 |
Recommend
No |
| This hotel was really nice. I was expecting the usual "4 - 4 1/2 star" Jamaican hotel which price per night in the US would get you a NICE room. However, even though some of the furniture is not brand new, and the kitchenette was not the most modern, overall I was plesantly surprised having been to Jamaica twice before. It's a beatiful resort, lots to do, and a friendly staff. It will be hard going back and staying in anything less. Some of our friends even got a maid, bulter and cook!!! Now that's vacation!!!
Reviewed by traveler from Houston, TX on May 10, 2006 |
| Wonderful |
Overall: 5 |
Service
5 |
Condition
5 |
Cleanliness
5 |
Comfort
5 |
Recommend
Yes |
| We went to the Half Moon for our honeymoon. We had the most wonderful time. The cottage we stayed in was lovely and had a beautiful ocean view. The water and beaches were clean and the snorkling was great. The food left a little to be desired, but overall was not bad. We really enjoyed the platnum plan all inclusive plan. I wouln't go back any other way because everything was included. The meals and drinks would be a little pricey otherwise. The cocktails were wonderful! The service could not have been any better. They were really bending over backward to get us everything we wanted. We will be returning in the future!!
Reviewed by traveler from Atlanta, GA on May 3, 2006 |
| Great place for a good time |
Overall: 4 |
Service
5 |
Condition
4 |
Cleanliness
4 |
Comfort
3 |
Recommend
Yes |
| We thought the food and service (although at times a bit slow) was great. The variety of activities was good especially for active children. The golf course was fabulous! Our room in the West Cottages was a bit tired, but with a wonderful sea view. We are planning a trip again next year and plan to try one of the Hibiscus Suites.
Reviewed by traveler from Boston, MA on March 5, 2006 |
| Montego Bay's Paradise |
Overall: 5 |
Service
5 |
Condition
5 |
Cleanliness
5 |
Comfort
5 |
Recommend
Yes |
| This hotel/resort exceeded my expectations!! It was absolutely gorgeous and all of the staff are very friendly.
Reviewed by traveler from Tampa, FL on November 22, 2005 |
| What a great time!!! |
Overall: 4 |
Service
5 |
Condition
4 |
Cleanliness
5 |
Comfort
5 |
Recommend
Yes |
| The Hotel is on beautifull grounds and it's very, very, big. Rent a golf car or be prepared to walk. The service and all the people are wonderful. The room isn't all that wonderful for the price, but the view is spectacular and the beach is there when you step out of your room. Snorkeling and Parasailing are a must! Alot of fun! Listen to your voicemail and read the hotel guide, it is very helpful.
Reviewed by traveler from San Antonio, TX on August 10, 2005 |
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