MoBay Proper

Montego Bay


Proper is often packed with locals and expats returned to the motherland. It’s a friendly, occasionally raucous spot and probably the easiest bar for tourists to access off the Hip Strip. Beneath a ‘chandelier’ of Heineken bottles, the pool table generates considerable heat, while dominoes are the rage with an older crowd out on the patio.


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