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Oceanfront View
Oceanfront Patio
Deluxe Villa Suite
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- One King Bed
Jamaican vacation retreat with private beach, spa
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Former plantation
Occupying a former plantation on a secluded peninsula 17 km (10 mi) west of Montego Bay, this seaside family-friendly resort offers rest and relaxation for the world-famous and the world-weary.
Private beach
With private beach access, Round Hill Hotel and Villas features a full-service health spa, seaside swimming pool, a children's club and swimming pool, and on-site banquet facilities.
Rooms and villas
Guests of the Round Hill Hotel can choose between Ralph Lauren-designed hotel rooms overlooking the calm-water bay and spacious villa suites tucked into forested hillsides.
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Hotel Amenities
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Begun in 1953 as a collection of villas on a 110-acre pineapple/allspice/coconut plantation, Round Hill Hotel has long served vacationers who come here for the restful rusticity, which attracts celebrity and non-celebrity couples and families.
Accessible by a path from the resort's beach, an adults-only retreat features a health and beauty spa in a restored 18th-century plantation house and an 8-meter-diameter (26-foot) seaside pool. The spa (surcharge) offers treatments in air-conditioned rooms, on a veranda, at the sea edge, and in a hillside hydrotherapy area enveloped by trees.
A children's club with clubhouse provides complimentary activities for children ages 3–11, with special programs during family-holiday seasons. A 24-hour business center offers high-speed Internet access and a library includes game tables. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available throughout the resort.
- 24-hour front desk
- Children's club (free)
- Total number of rooms - 110
- Banquet facilities
- Bar/lounge
- Beauty services
- Business services
- Cell phone/mobile rental
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Concierge desk
- Currency exchange
- Doorman/doorwoman
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Event catering
- Full-service health spa
- Arcade/game room
- Hair salon
- Laundry facilities
- Library
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Medical assistance available
- Multiple small meeting rooms
- Babysitting or childcare
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- On private beach
- Restaurant
- Room service (limited hours)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Meeting facilities size (feet) - 12917
- Complimentary reception
- Security guard
- Self parking
- Shopping on site
- Smoke-free property
- Supervised childcare/activities
- Swimming pool - children's
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- Wedding services
- Floor butler
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Grocery store
- Health club
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Technology support staff
- Designated smoking areas
- Beach/pool umbrellas
- Half board rates available
- Full board rates available
- On-site medical assistance available
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free Wi-Fi
- Massage - spa treatment room(s)
- Multilingual staff
- Free parking
- Garden
- Meeting facilities size (meters) - 1200
- Number of meeting/conference rooms - 2
- Year Built 1953
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- 24-hour business center
- Outdoor tennis court
- Shoe shine
- Number of buildings/towers - 27
- Spa services on site
- Suitable for children
- Television in lobby
- Internet
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Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
- Parking
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Free parking, Self parking
- Room Amenities
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- CD player
- Separate sitting area
- Ceiling fan
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Complimentary bottled water
- Wake-up calls
- Turndown service
- In-room massage available
- Extra towels/bedding in room
- Handheld showerhead
- Bathroom scale
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- Window opens
- Desk
- Pillow menu
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Premium bedding
- Patio
- Climate control
- Complimentary newspaper
- Access via exterior corridors
- Direct-dial phone
- Refrigerator
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Designer toiletries
- Makeup/shaving mirror
- Slippers
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Rainfall showerhead
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- iPod docking station
- Free Wi-Fi
- Double sink
- Speakerphone
- Beach view
- Ocean view
- Pool view
- Individually furnished
- Individually decorated
- Dining
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Georgian Dining Room - Dining room and Upper and Lower Seaside Terraces with tropical-almond trees and sea/sunset views. À la carte breakfast and dinner. International choices and Jamaican specialties. (Buffets offered during high-occupancy periods.) Live music nightly. Dinner dress code: long pants, collared shirts for men.
Special Nights - Monday-night beach-party buffet (casual wear). Friday-night Jamaican buffet with folkloric show (dress shorts permitted). Saturday-night dinner-dance with live jazz (men's jackets suggested but not required).
Beach Bar - Circular bar built around tropical-almond tree. Open late morning to early evening for sandwiches, salads, burgers, tropical drinks.
Pool Bar - Circular bar built around tropical-almond tree. Open late morning to early evening for sandwiches, salads, burgers, tropical drinks during high-occupancy periods.
Cocktail Bar - Located in rear of Lower Terrace. Open mid-morning to late night. Contemporary designer decor in blue and white with wood trim. Complimentary afternoon tea. Cocktails, cigars, live music.
- Entertainment
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Round Hill features nightly entertainment, from the steel drum bands on Monday evening with the Beach BBQ to a full Jamaican Heritage Show on Friday evenings, with the Mento House band and local singers and musicians on all other nights.
- Recreation
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A terrace overlooking Round Hill Bay and the forested mountains on the bay's opposite side features a large family swimming pool surrounded by cushioned lounge chairs. Another pool measuring 8m in diameter (26 ft) overlooks the bay in the resort's 4-hectare (10-acre), adults-only spa-and-fitness retreat, which is accessible by a 400m (437-yd) path along the bay.
The complimentary fitness center contains free weights and cardio and weight machines. Complimentary aerobics sessions take place on the veranda, with yoga classes (surcharge) on the lawn.
Furnished with cushioned lounge chairs and umbrellas, the resort's private 75-m (76-yd) beach is lapped by the calm waters of little Round Hill Bay. Cushioned lounge chairs also are available on a 75-m (76-yd) stone-and-concrete walkway shaded by tropical almond trees that extends from one end of the beach. A trampoline raft and two wood rafts are anchored off the beach, and there's snorkeling among rocks near the beach and a reef farther offshore.
The resort provides complimentary snorkeling, kayaks, pedal boats, and glass-bottom-boat tours. Water skiing and fishing are available for surcharges, as are scuba-diving instruction/certification, diving excursions, and a 15.5-m (51-ft) catamaran with crew for sailing/snorkeling excursions.
Use of five tennis courts (two lighted) is complimentary, and the resort provides a complimentary professional-taught tennis clinic in July and August for children age 12 and younger. Also complimentary are guided Friday-afternoon nature walks through the resort's grounds. A jogging/running path winds through the resort's hills.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.
- Horse riding/rental nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Aerobics on site
- Basketball on site
- Boat launch on site
- Boating on site
- Dock on site
- Fishing on site
- Kayaking on site
- Motor boating on site
- Parasailing on site
- Pilates classes on site
- Running track/path on site
- Sailing on site
- Scuba diving on site
- Snorkeling on site
- Swimming on site
- Tennis on site
- Tennis lessons on site
- Water skiing on site
- Windsurfing on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
- Ecotours nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Spa
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Located in an 18th century Great House on 10 oceanfront acres, The Spa at Round Hill features 7 treatment rooms including a couple's suite along with an outdoor treatment area in a garden setting. Treatments include deep tissue massages, aroma stone massages, facials, salt scrubs, body wraps, manicures, pedicures, and other beauty services.
- Number of treatment rooms 8
- Outdoor treatment areas
- Couples treatment rooms
- Massages on beach
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Spa café
- Spa boutique
- Beachfront spa
- Ocean view from spa
- Water view from spa
- Mountain view from spa
- Massages
- Minimum age to access spa is 12
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
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Policies & Fees
- Check-in
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Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out
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Check-out time is noon
- Payment types
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Accepted at this hotel: Cash not accepted, American Express, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
- General
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Early departure fee charged
Caters to couples
Caters to families
- Additional Details
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Some facilities may have restricted access. Guests can contact the property for details using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
Awards & Affiliations
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- Round Hill Hotel And Villas is listed in the 2010 Condé Nast Traveler Gold List of the world's best places to stay and the 2011 Travel + Leisure 500.