One of Chef Jeff Bland's favorite hotels

This is Jamaica's first great resort and still one of the Caribbean's finest. It is a canvas of pastel tropical flowers and graceful colonial architecture framed by lush Jamaican countryside and a crystal clear and beckoning sea. Round Hill is perched on a lush, green peninsula. A former 100-acre pineapple, allspice and coconut plantation, Round Hill Hotel and Villas today provides a welcoming paradise in style — breakfast served in your private villa suite or ocean-front, spacious hotel room; a serene beach; and a fabulous new spa at Welcome Wharf featuring an air-conditioned indoor/outdoor fitness centre/gym, beauty salon and seven treatment rooms as well as a tropical outdoor treatment area. This property offers a selection of 110 guestrooms and suites housed in the Pineapple House and privately owned villas on Round Hill’s peninsula — 22 villas boast a private pool.

This very sophisticated Jamaican resort is just 30 minutes from the Montego Bay airport.