Jamaica Itinerary - Family Trip

The beach area is very rocky as expected because the resort is located on a Bay but the pools more than make up for it. The pool is so huge that you always find a lounge charge in the 100s of cabana areas they have around the pool. The swim up bars are so spacious that even on the busiest of days, we had a spot at the bar with drinks served fairly quick and the baby loved swimming in the beautiful pools as well. Some of her best naps were on the lounge chair right by the pool!

Like I always say, do not let a baby stop you from having fun but make them a part of your fun and they are sure to surprise you. Because we went for a wedding, we quite often joined into the late night entertainment with our friends and the baby slept in her stroller with a Babybanz to cancel out all the noise around her and she seemed so undisturbed by it. 

There were so many choices for food around the resort and we never seemed to be short them. My favourite was the arcade area and the cafe there served delicious hot Jamaican patties - those are my absolute favourite and I still cannot stop thinking of those (wish I had eaten maybe just one more!). There was also an a la carte restaurant that served Indian food and it was the most delicious Indian food we ate! 

Let's talk about the drinks! There are so many bars around the property that you will never be standing without a drink in your hand. Jamaicans make some of the most delicious drinks and even the virgin ones were so delicious! Because I was feeding the baby, I only indulged myself with alcoholic beverages once the entire trip and had to 'Pump and Dump' but Hey! it was so worth it. 

We had heard so much about Rick's cafe and knew that this would definitely be a place we would want to visit. 

We weren't wrong at all! Imagine diving off a 35 foot cliff into the blue water? Well, that is what Rick's Cafe is worldly famous for. And also the gorgeous sunsets you can see from here while sipping on some delicious cocktails or lounging in their beautiful pool. 

I was so excited to dive off a cliff and so was my hubby but travelling with a newborn does come with certain restrictions and this was one of them. While we would have loved to do it, we also knew that this was where we would have to draw the line and instead, we watching others jump off the cliff, clapped at their bravery while sitting in the Cafe, enjoying some nice drinks and hot food. 

When I do return to Jamaica, this will definitely be on my to-do list because I do want to experience this for myself. Once you jump off the cliff and into the water, the current is pretty strong and you need to really put in all that you got to come back to the shore area. If you do get pulled away by the current, you will be surprised to sit in a cave which is known to be the place Bob Marley sat and wrote his songs. That would be worth the pull from the currents! 

Dunns River waterfalls was another must do for us! We were lucky to have our friends parents watch the baby while we climbed the waterfalls. This was the only reason why we were able to do this and one we are thankful for to date.

You are put into groups of people and you hold hands, for a human chain and literally climb up a waterfall. There are natural slides through the falls where you get to slide down or there are natural massage areas - what I like to call it. The force of the water is so powerful that you can sit under it and get a nice massage. 

You need to wear water shoes to be able to do this climb. You can purchase them there or even wear running shoes - which I did! This was such a memorable trip for us because it was the first and probably only time in our life that we climbed a 180 foot waterfall. It may sound quite a bit but it took us around 1.5 hours to climb it and we did stop a lot in the middle to enjoy the natural waterslides.