The views from this hotel are exceptional. We could see the mountains and sea from our room. The balcony was huge and so was the suite, which includes a sitting area the size of a small living room. The water pressure was very low in the shower, so plan to spend a few more minutes showering than usual, but the water was clean and drinkable.

If you want to get away from everything, this is the place to go. There are no phones or clocks in the rooms to remind you of the "real world" that you are trying to escape. There was a TV with basic cable, but why go to paradise to watch TV? You can make phone calls in the lobby.

All the rooms are on a mountainside, so there is a lot of walking up and down stairs to go from your room to the lobby/restaurant. This is not a handicap-friendly facility.

The only complaint I have is with the restaurant. They seemed to be out of many of the foods on the menu. We figured this out after a few meals there and started finding other places to eat, but the restaurant does have good food. Try the chicken curry or cajun chicken.

Downtown Port Antonio is about 10-15 minutes drive from the hotel. It is a busy small town with lots of locally grown fruits and vegetables at low prices. The pineapple is awesome. It reminds me of the fresh pineapple I have eaten in Hawaii. There are many fruit stands and stores that sell all the basic necessities.

Most people who visit the tourist towns in Jamaica such as Montego Bay or Ocho Rios do not enjoy their trip because those are not the "real" Jamaica, plus they are constantly bugged by pushy merchants. Port Antonio is nothing like that. It is a small town in the jungle-covered mountains that is unspoiled by comercialism. All the people were very nice to us. They would ocassionally come up to us and ask us if we needed anything. We would tell them what we needed and give them some money. They would disappear and then come back with whatever we asked for. Many people there make their living this way because the unemployment rate is high, but it is nice for tourists because these people are willing to buy you anything, take you on tours, etc. for a small fee. That is a nice thing for foreigners visiting Jamaica.

The places we visited on our trip were Boston Beach (great jerk chicken and a beautiful beach with rolling waves), Sommerset Falls (take the boat trip that goes under the falls, it is awesome), Frenchman's Cove, and the Blue Lagoon. Please be advised that the Blue Lagoon restaurant is permanently closed. We paid $60 total to ride a bamboo raft through the Blue Lagoon (where we swam). The ride also took us over to San San Beach where we ate lunch and then continued the ride back. The raft ride was very pleasant and relaxing and worth twice what we paid.

There are many beautiful beaches in Jamaica that you will not hear about online, so there is a lot more to explore than what you might think. There isn't a lot of information and photos about the Port Antonio area online, so we were really impressed with what we experienced once we got there.