Climb a waterfall before lunch. Swim in a lagoon that glows after dark.
Which Blue Hole trip stops at the rope swing. Whether Dunn’s River is worth it on a cruise-ship morning. Reviews of every tour you can book in Jamaica.
A jump pool, a bamboo raft, a glowing lagoon and a catamaran.
Four bookings a first week in Jamaica tends to hang off. What each one costs, and what the people who took it say.
01The big dayTriple Action pack Combo (Blue Hole, Horse back riding and river tubing)Blue Hole rope swings, an hour on horseback and a tubing run down the river, all before the drive back.
02The slow morningJamaica Bamboo Rafting Experience with Lime Stone MassagePoled down the Great River on bamboo, then a foot massage on warm limestone at the landing. The cheapest good idea on the island.
03After darkLuminous Lagoon Night Tour from Montego BayGlistening Waters turns silver where you swim through it. Go on a dark night; a full moon washes the whole thing out.
04The boat dayCatamaran Cruise Full Day Tour to Reef, Caves and Negril BeachOut past the Negril cliffs to the caves and the reef, with a snorkel stop and the bar open on the way home.
Dunn’s River, the Blue Hole, or a raft on the Martha Brae. Pick your river.
The best Jamaican days are freshwater. Four kinds of river morning, what each costs to join, and which coast it leaves from.
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · Blue Hole, Secret Falls, and Dunn’s River Falls Combo Day-Trip
The falls climbHands linked up the terraces, then the beach at the bottom.
The bamboo raftTwo of you, a captain with a pole, nobody in a hurry.
The tubing runA rubber tube, a gentle current, a guide riding at the back.
The south-coast dayYS Falls, crocodiles on the Black River, a bar on stilts.
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Six coasts, and the day out that makes each one worth the drive.
The airport town with rafting rivers behind it, the falls coast, seven miles of sand, a lagoon that glows, crocodile country, and the capital under the Blue Mountains.
The days out more travellers take than anything else in Jamaica.
The whole Jamaica catalogue →What the island actually sells, in order, and what earns each of them the slot.
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Rastafari Cultural ATV Community Experience from Montego Bay
Travel from Montego Bay to Roaring River for coffee, local history, and a fresh juice welcome before riding an ATV through farms and forest. Guides such as Gilbert, Paul, Alicia, Nick, and Owen lead stops for swimming, fruit tasting, and a ganja farm visit, followed by a homemade lunch.
From · $164
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Jamaica All-Access Adventure Pass at Ocean Outpost
from $163
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Negril One Love Bus Bar Crawl
from $25
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Jamaica Dunn’s River Falls Party Cruise with Snorkeling
from $133
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Blue Hole, Secret Falls, and Dunn’s River Falls Combo Day-Trip
from $125
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Rastafari Cultural ATV Community Experience from Negril
from $164
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Triple Action pack Combo (Blue Hole, Horse back riding and river tubing)
from $141
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Jamaica Martha Brae Bamboo Rafting with Bus Transportation
from $134
Between the Negril cliffs and the Montego Bay reef, the good days are afloat.
Catamarans leaving Montego Bay with the bar open and a snorkel stop on the reef, the sunset run down to Rick’s Cafe for the cliff divers, a glass-bottom boat over Booby Cay. Salt water is the other half of this island.
Montego Bay: the airport, the hip strip, and the rivers behind the hotels.
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Most people land here and most people never leave the strip. Twenty minutes inland the Great River runs through bamboo; ninety minutes east the falls start. These three carry more travellers than anything else in the parish.
A bamboo raft on the Great River
A captain poles you down through the bamboo while nothing at all happens, which is the point. Most trips tie up at a landing where the limestone foot massage is waiting.
Dunn’s River, and the drive along the coast
Ninety minutes along the north coast to the terraces, where a guide takes the first hand and the whole line follows it up. Take the earliest slot on a ship day.
Rick’s Cafe, and the run back after dark
An hour and a half to Negril for the cliff divers, a drink while the sun drops behind the boats, then the ride home. Worth doing once, and only with a driver.
Negril is seven miles of sand at one end and a diving board at the other.
The beach runs flat and shallow the whole way north, which is why the horses swim there. South of the roundabout the sand stops and the limestone starts: caves, ladders into the water, and a cliff everybody jumps off at six.
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The real price of a Jamaican day out.
Every tour on the site, grouped by price. Some of the best mornings here cost less than the taxi to the beach.
Bamboo rafts, limestone massages, the hip strip, and a falls ticket without the minibus.
The standards: Blue Hole combos, catamaran days, the lagoon after dark, ATV trails.
Private drivers, the full south-coast run, and the once-a-trip adventure passes.
Three Jamaican days you cannot have anywhere else.
Waterfalls and beach clubs exist all over the Caribbean. Water that lights up when you move through it, a village at the top of a hill with a stone pillow in it, and a massage given on a rock in a river do not.
The Luminous Lagoon
At Glistening Waters near Falmouth, fresh water off the Martha Brae meets the sea in a warm, shallow basin, and the organisms living in it flare where the water is disturbed. Boats go out after sunset and you get in. The glow is real but faint, so a bright moon, or a boatful of phone torches, ruins it for everybody.
- 1Luminous Lagoon Night Tour from Montego Bay★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 · 419 reviews
- 2Mesmerizing Luminous Lagoon (Glistening Waters) Night Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 98 reviews
- 3Explore Montego Bay to Luminous LagoonGlistening Water Night Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 78 reviews
Nine Mile
Two hours up from the coast road, in the hills of Saint Ann, sits the village where Bob Marley was born and where he is buried. The house is tiny, the mausoleum stands behind it, and the guides are family or near enough. Nothing about the day is polished, which is most of why the people who go rate it the way they do.
- 1Bob Marley’s Nine Mile Admission and Guided Tour from Montego Bay★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 350 reviews
- 2Jamaica Combo Tour: Dunn’s River Falls and Bob Marley’s Nine Mile★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 273 reviews
- 3Dunn’s River Falls, Bob Marley 9 Mile – Optional Lagoon Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 · 135 reviews
The limestone massage
At the rafting landings on the Great River and the Lethe, the rafts tie up and a masseuse works on your feet with warm limestone lifted out of the riverbed. It began as something captains added to the trip and it is now the reason plenty of people book the raft at all. An hour, on a rock, in a river.
- 1Jamaica Bamboo Rafting Experience with Lime Stone Massage★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 549 reviews
- 2Private Montego Bay Bamboo Rafting with Limestone Foot Massage★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 200 reviews
- 3Bamboo Rafting and Limestone Foot Massage on Lethe River Private Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 114 reviews
Four things here that are decided before you land.
Most of this island can be arranged from a beach bar the night before. These four run on timed entry, a boat that only goes after dark, a distillery two hours inland and a river that takes one raft at a time.
- 01Jamaica Dunn’s River Falls Party Cruise with SnorkelingEntry is timed and the cruise-ship mornings fill first. With ships in, the early climbs are gone before breakfast.
- 02Luminous Lagoon Night Tour from Montego BayThe boats only go after sunset, and the glow reads best on a dark night. A full moon washes it out completely.
- 03Jamaica Martha Brae Bamboo Rafting with Bus TransportationEach raft carries one captain and one couple, so the river moves at the speed of the fleet. Morning departures go first.
- 04YS Falls, Black River Safari, Appleton Rum Tour OR Pelican Bar (Choose Up to 3)The estate sits deep in the Nassau Valley, two hours off the coast, so every visit runs as a full-day tour on a fixed departure.
The Jamaican north coast takes an hour of rain most afternoons. Plan the roof.
Showers here arrive fast, empty out and leave, usually between two and four. Nothing on the water runs through one, and nothing on a river bank is any fun in it. The answer is an hour indoors: a great house, a rum estate, the craft markets, or a table with a view of the weather.
Appleton rum out of the Nassau Valley, coffee off the Blue Mountains.
Two Jamaican exports are each worth a day of a holiday. The rum is a two-hour drive into cane country; the coffee is a climb out of Kingston into cloud. Both end with you tasting the thing where it is made.
By coast: where you are sleeping
By kind of day: river, reef, trail or estate
Montego Bay, Falmouth, Ocho Rios, then west to Negril: the run most people do first.
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Luxury Transfer: Montego Bay Airport – Negril & Ocho Rios Resorts
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Bamboo rafting on the great river -Transportation only
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Negril Catamaran: Adults Sunset Party with Drinks & DJ
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Great River Rafting Tour With Limestone Body Massage From Negril
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Ocho Rios Private Horse Riding, River Tubing and Rafting[Entry fee not included]
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Private Transfer between Hedonism ll Resort and Airport
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Guided Snorkeling at the Anchor and Cannon Reef in Negril
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