Situated in Montego Bay, this lovely house for $60 per night is a great option for your next trip. You're family here In a safe, friendly community, with markets, grocery, ice cream, take-out food, and low-cost taxis a block away. We have solar hot water/energy and cable TV. Private veranda, with cool breezes and awesome sunsets. Enjoy the roof-top views overlooking Montego Bay, the mountains and sea. On-site hosts: Jah B prepares Jamaican meals to order, Cheri loves stories and giving guidance to enjoy JA. 10 minutes to beaches, shops, dining, dancing! In Topaz Dream Palace (capacity 18) The space Free coffee/tea and toast. Welcome, Jah B and Lady Cheri, your resident hosts, live on the second floor and are available to provide, by arrangement: chef service/lessons, health coaching, transport, tours, local culture/stories, dominos, and music. We’re 20 minutes from the MoBay airport, nearer to bus stations, taxi stands, and 'Hip Strip' beaches, dancing at Margaritaville, Pier 1, Rehab Sports Bar, and Clock Tower, and shopping the straw market shops for local crafts, carvings, and clothing. Experience the local scene in Mobay, and suburb Jerkys open-air restaurant, health food store, ATMs, currency exchanges, hardware, pharmacies, department stores, bookstores, large supermarkets, and casino. View/breeze on verandas/roof deck Reggae music is usually wafting through the air from the nearby corner of indoor markets, takeout food, ice cream, and other local neighborhood services. Mackies, a well-known local sports bar, is a few blocks away. There are churches in the area. Be amazed at the mountain view, botanical garden and art gallery at the nearby Ahh Rasnatango Gardens and Gallery, and the neon glow of Glistening Waters, a rare phenomenon. Suites: 1st fl. Kalonji Suite: sleeps 7: 1 double bed and 1 single bed(Jamaican Apple/magenta), private bath; 2 double beds (Wood of Life/blue and yellow), adjacent bath; shared liv/din/kitchen/veranda. 2nd fl. Talawa Suite: sleeps 6: 1 queen bed (Hummingbird/green), private bath; 1 queen bed (Blue Mahoe/burnt red), adjacent bath; 1 double bed (Purple Haze). shared liv/din/kitchen; (Purple Haze), 1 double bed, share hall bathroom with Blue Mahoe. Apartment: Mango Island: sleep 4: one queen bedroom, full bath, kitchen, dining area living room with sofa and double bed, cable TV, private veranda. The two other suites, one on each floor have separate entrances but can be joined together for larger groups, along with the apartment and 2-room suite on roof deck (Cloud 9). Total capacity 18. Guest access Our guest home overlooks Montego Bay, the ocean and mountains, so there’s always a cool breeze and views from our roof deck and verandas. All are welcome to the roof deck and 2nd-floor veranda. Interaction with guests We enjoy interacting with our guests, and are also fine with giving you your own separate space . . . whatever you desire. We are here to help you have the best vacation possible. Check out the excellent reviews from our prior guests. Jah B is an excellent chef for meals and juices prepared with fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, fish and chicken from the nearby farmers’ market. If you wish, he’ll guide you through the market, and provide cooking lessons (small fee). He’s a great ‘selector’ of CD love songs, soul and reggae music. Cheri, a certified health education coach, enjoys sharing her miracle recovery from cancer using natural healing methods. She also loves hearing about the guests' travels and lives, and providing info on Jamaica sites, history, etc. Other things to note We both love to introduce our guests (Kings and Queens) to the beautiful beaches and countryside, cultural history, folktales, and the variety of attractions. Montego Bay is the second largest city in Jamaica and preferred destination for most Jamaican tourists. We like to tour guests to the amazing ahh RasNatango Garden and Gallery, and the Rastafari indigenous village (each about 1/2 hr away). It's an hour (+) from Negril (Calico Jack's, Chukka horseback riding, Rick’s Café, Bourbon Beach, The Jungle (dance club), Barney’s Hummingbird Garden), less time to Falmouth (Glistening Water), an hour (+) to Ocho Rios (Dunns River Falls, Blue Hole, Fern Gully, Dophins Cove, Mystic Mountain – sky ride, zipline, bobsled rides), and three hours to the South Coast (Treasure Beach, Black River, YS Falls, Alligator Tours, Appleton Rum Factory Tour). Cheri met Jah B in 1994 when she came to Jamaica to find the guest house she had ‘dreamed’ in 1979 she was to have in retirement. Instead, she met Jah B; they instantly fell in love and were married in 1996, raising two sons in Philadelphia. In 2007, the time was right for Jah B, with a contractor friend and family expertise, to build our guest home. The name combines our November birthstones—topaz, plus both our dreams, plus it looks like a palace, doesn’t it! Be ready to be treated like the Queens and Kings you are! MoBay Sumfest is mid-July (a week of all-night reggae artists); Emancipation Day Aug 1; Independence Day Aug 6; and much more. The Maroon Festival high in the Mountains (celebrates the peace treaty that successful runaway enslaved Africans signed with British in 1739), Jan. 6; Rebel Salute (a two "night-long" reggae stage show around Jan 15 nearer Ocho Rios; the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival in January, TBA in Ocho Rios; Bob Marley celebrations (Feb. 1-6 mostly in Kingston). Climb Dunns River Falls, go zip-lining and bobsledding, drive through Fern Gully and Bamboo Avenue, express ahhh as you visit with the botanical artists at Rasnatango Gardens and Gallery, feed hummingbirds close-up, experience cliff jumping at the famous Rick's Cafe, go rafting on the Martha Brae, and snorkeling with Captain Poly's glass bottom boat, add 10 years to your life by swimming in the rare sparkling Luminous Lagoon, tour the Green Grotto Cave, go horseback riding in the mountains and along the ocean, bike ride through the Blue Mountains, enjoy the 7-levels of YS Falls, tour the Appleton Rum Estate and factory, dine in the Houseboat Grill, Pier 1 and the Pelican Grill, dance at Margaritaville, Pier 1, Clock Tower, Jazzy Blue Beat and The Jungle(Negril) , hang out at Sports Bars -- Mackie's, Rehab, Powers, the Brewery, go to services in the St. James Anglican church, built in 1775. Enjoy local treats like breadfruit, Jamaica apples, June plums, 'sweet' soursop fruit, mangos, spice buns, cocoa balls, coconut drops, grape-nut ice cream, sweet potato pudding, and "blue drawers." Feast on ackee and salt fish (the national dish; ackee from our backyard tree), jerk chicken, curried goat, festival (sweet fried pastry), yam, green banana, rice and peas (red beans), and callaloo (greens), and snack on patties (veggies, chicken or beef in fried pastry). Savor mountain spring water, coconut water, lime, pineapple, soursop, cherry, and mango juices, ting (carbonated grapefruit), sorrel, ginger beer, rum cream, Red Stripe beer, and the nutritious tea from moringa or soursop leaves (from our backyard tree). Other Listings: 1689149- Whole House max. of 16 people 1689727- Cloud 9/ Roof deck max. of people 1689747- Mango Island max. of 4 people 1689782- One Love Suite max. of 6 people 1689812- One Heart Suite max. of people