Great Huts

Top choice in Ocho Rios, Port Antonio & the North Coast


A green 'ecovillage' meets sculpture park overlooking Boston Bay; this is a distinctive and imaginative collection of African-style huts and tree houses with open verandas, bamboo-walled bedrooms and alfresco showers. There's a private beach, a walking trail along the cliff, yoga, an Afro-centric library and a restaurant-bar with live music on Saturday. If only all resorts in Jamaica felt this 'inclusive.'

A proportion of profits goes to supporting Portland Rehab Management, the only homeless shelter in the eastern half of Jamaica.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Ocho Rios, Port Antonio & the North Coast attractions

1. Boston Bay Beach

0.16 MILES

Boston Bay's beach sits in a small pretty cove, and while its golden sand is draw enough, the shape of the bay and prevailing weather make it a perfect…

2. Winnifred Beach

1.57 MILES

Perched on a cliff 13km east of Port Antonio is the little hamlet of Fairy Hill. Follow the road steeply downhill and you’ll reach Winnifred Beach, yet…

3. Blue Lagoon

2.23 MILES

The waters that launched Brooke Shields’ movie career are by any measure one of the most beautiful spots in Jamaica. The 180ft-deep (55m) “Blue Hole” (as…

4. San San Beach

2.93 MILES

San San is a pretty beach used by residents of the villas on Alligator Head, and guests of the Goblin Hill, Fern Hill and Jamaica Palace hotels. The bay…

5. Frenchman’s Cove

3.17 MILES

This beautiful little cove just east of Drapers boasts a small but perfect white-sand beach, where the water is fed by a freshwater river that spits…

6. Trident Castle

4.49 MILES

A strange slice of Ruritania in the Caribbean, this folly on a headland 3km from Port Antonio was built in the 1970s by the (in)famously eccentric…

7. Folly

5.94 MILES

This rather appropriately named two-story, 60-room mansion on the peninsula east of East Harbour was built entirely of concrete in pseudo-Grecian style in…

8. Folly Point Lighthouse

6.16 MILES

Near the Folly mansion stands the orange candy-striped Folly Point Lighthouse, built in 1888, which overlooks Monkey Island. Said island adds even more…