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Property Amenities
Guests may book either an All-Inclusive plan or a Room-Only (No Meals) plan. All-Inclusive plans include meals, drinks, gratuities, and the majority of resort-offered amenities and activities. Room-Only (No Meals) plans do NOT include meals, drinks, gratuities, and certain resort-offered amenities etc. (scroll up to the All-Inclusive Plan Details section for more information).
The 68,000-square-foot Fern Tree Spa at Half Moon includes complimentary women's and men's saunas and steam rooms and, for surcharges, treatments such as Jamaican Bush Bath. A couples' pavilion includes a two-person spa tub, twin tables, ceiling mirror, and cushioned lounge chairs for services such as Lovers' Fantasy (candlelight, music, champagne).
Complimentary wireless Internet access is available in the lobby and the Hibiscus section. A games room contains video games (surcharges), with video, DVD player, and DVD rentals available. Limited complimentary parking is available (during stay only). Airport and complimentary beach shuttles are available on request. There's also a doorman/doorwoman and a piano in the lobby.
Ground transportation:
Shuttle vans and private cars of varying prices are available. They can be reserved during the process of booking a reservation for this hotel, via this Web site, and added to the total trip cost.
Room Amenities
Rooms
Guests may book either an All-Inclusive plan or a Room-Only (No Meals) plan. The All-Inclusive plan includes meals, drinks, gratuities and the majority of resort-offered amenities and activities. The Room-Only (No Meals) plan does NOT include meals, drinks, gratuities, and certain resort-offered amenities (scroll up to the All-Inclusive Plan Details section for more information).
The Half Moon's 398 guestrooms and suites in small, two-story buildings and beachfront cottages have Queen Anne-style furniture, minibars, bathrobes, VCR and DVD players, and televisions offering U.S. cable channels.
All-Inclusive Details
Guests can book rooms at Half Moon for a rate that is either for the room only or for all-inclusive. All-inclusive rates are higher because they include onsite food and beverages in the room rate (some restrictions may apply, for example, to premium food items or drinks; or to dining at specific restaurants). Guests who book all-inclusive rates do not have to pay extra for onsite activities such as snorkeling. Gratuities are included. Please note items that are not included; these require a surcharge.
Taxes and gratuities
Gratuities are included.
Food and beverages
Kids' club
Entertainment
Other inclusions
Not included
Accessibility Options
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the “Special or Accessibility Requests” section of “Trip Preferences” when you book your hotel.
Dining
Guests may book either an All-Inclusive plan or a Room-Only (No Meals) plan. The All-Inclusive plan includes meals, beverages, and gratuities at the following restaurants, snack spots, and bars. The Room-Only (No Meals) plan does NOT include meals, beverages, or gratuities (scroll up to the All-Inclusive Plan Details section for more information).
Seagrape Terrace - Restaueant with an air-conditioned dining room in the main building and expansive sea-view terrace seating at wrought-iron tables under buttonwood trees. (Tiny white lights on trunks after dark). Afternoon island music, nightly dance music. Buffet and à la carte breakfasts. Lunch choices such as soups, salads, sandwiches, burgers, fish, steak, jerk chicken. Traditional afternoon tea. Dinner choices include curried lobster salad, sweet-potato crab cakes, broiled snapper with bananas and almonds, broiled beef tenderloin. Reservations required for dinner. Dress code: no t-shirts, jeans, shorts, beach sandals.
Il Giardino - Located next to Seagrape Terrace. Air-conditioned dining room with gray marble floor, sponged rose walls. Sea-view terrace seating at wrought-iron tables. Italian cuisine featuring vegetables, herbs from resort garden. Dinner only; reservations required. Choices such as tagliolini with shellfish in crayfish sauce, goat cheese-celery ravioli with walnut pesto, osso buco, rack of lamb, grilled swordfish. Dress code: no t-shirts, jeans, shorts, beach sandals. Closed Monday and Friday.
Sugar Mill Restaurant - Located in garden near golf course. Adjacent to 200-year-old working water wheel. Dining-room, veranda, and terrace seating. Dinner only; reservations required. Jamaican specialties such as curried crayfish bisque; chicken-pineapple stew with tumeric-passionfruit sauce; dasheen-crusted mahi mahi with ackee and tomato-basil confit; jerked chicken, pork, fish combination. Also, grilled steaks, fish. Dress code: no t-shirts, jeans, shorts, beach sandals.
La Baguette - Restaurant/bar in open-air sea-view pavilion. Pool table. Brick floor, rattan seating, colorful seat cushions, yellow walls. Serves Continental breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Open late morning to early evening for burgers, hot dogs, sandwiches, salads, grilled food, tropical drinks. Open in high-occupancy periods for dinner, with choices such as steaks, lobsters, fish, chicken. Closed Monday and Friday.
The Prince of Wales English Pub & Steakhouse - Located in Shopping Village. Traditional pub fare and Jamaican specialties for lunch and dinner. Meals are included in the All-Inclusive Plan but beverages are not.
Aarya - Indian and Thai cuisine. Lunch and dinner served. Reservations required for dinner. Meals are included in the All-Inclusive Plan but beverages are not.
Beach Barbecue - Complimentary cocktail reception on Monday and Friday evenings followed by Caribbean buffet at picnic tables under trees festooned with lights. Steel band. Crab races.
Lester's Bar - Lobby bar open early morning to late night.
Cedar Bar - Casual beachfront spot open mid-morning to late night.
Beach Bar - Open mid-afternoon to late evening.
Royal Pavilion - Open-air bar near dolphin-encounter lagoon. Open mid-morning to early evening.
19th Hole Bar - Golf-clubhouse bar serving cocktails, beer, Jamaican beef patties from early morning to early evening.
Hibiscus Bar - Pool bar with swimup side open late morning to early evening.
Recreation
Guests may book either an All-Inclusive plan or a Room-Only (No Meals) plan. Please note the following recreational amenities may incur charges for some or all guests (scroll up to the All-Inclusive Plan Details section for more information).
The resort's Hibiscus section features a 46-m (152-ft) freeform pool with water spouts and swim-up bar; a four-lane, 25-m (27.5-yd) lap pool; and between them a 6-by-2.5m (20-by-8-ft) waterfall pool with barstools. In the Oleander Area outside La Baguette restaurant/bar is a 17-m (56-ft) irregularly shaped pool.
The resort's 2-km (1.25-mi) Caribbean Sea frontage features Sunset Beach on calm, crescent-shaped Half Moon Bay, the center of swimming and nonmotorized water sports. To the east, long, uncrowded Sunrise Beach (protected by an artificial reef) offers motorized sports, sunbathing, and encounters with two Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (surcharges) in a lagoon pen.
Recreation opportunities include windsurfing, kayaking, sailing, snorkeling, pedal-boating, glass-bottom-boat trips, water skiing, parasailing, banana-boating, deep-sea fishing, boat cruising, scuba-diving/snorkeling excursions, and scuba-diving instruction/certification.
Complimentary recreational facilities include 13 tennis courts (four artificial grass and nine hard surface, with nine lighted), two championship croquet lawns, an 18-hole putting course, Ping Pong, pool, badminton, volleyball, horseshoes, and giant outdoor chess.
Guests can golf on an 18-hole course designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. and featuring a Georgian clubhouse; use an equestrian center offering a jumping course and beach/swim, jungle, and trail rides as well as pony rides; take guided mountain-bike tours; and play on four lighted squash courts. David Leadbetter Golf Academy offers instruction for golf, tennis, croquet, horseback riding, and windsurfing.
An enormous fitness center provides weight-training machines and free weights in one air-conditioned room and cardio equipment and aerobics classes in another. Yoga, aerobics, and pool aerobics classes are also available.
Located in a quiet, secluded area shaded by trees and bamboo, a children's center includes a two-story air-conditioned clubhouse, a fish-feeding pond, playground equipment, and a thatched playhouse. Supervisors offer complimentary sessions during the day for ages 3-6 and 7-12.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.
Spa
Fern Tree, The Spa at Half Moon, is a 68,000 square foot indoor/outdoor sanctuary. Fern Tree fuses modern spa techniques with ancient remedies using Jamaican herbs, fruits, and botanical blends. Set amidst lush gardens, each spa treatment room opens onto a private garden terrace. Couples may reserve the plantation-style massage room, equipped with a private patio and dipping pool. Families, wedding parties, and groups can enjoy the spa cottage with separate living and spa treatment areas. The spa also houses a relaxation lounge, yoga pavilion, and hydrotherapy and meditation labyrinth.
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out of 52 reviews
“Jewel of Jamica”
Very relaxed and elegant. Quiet and a wonderful place for both families and couples. All rooms are steps from the beach and very nice. Main resturant open and has a beautiful patio. As soon as you arrive you feel younger...
“Awesome Place, What you should know....”
This romantic, safe place was awesome. Beautiful, marble lobby, cool staff (young and old, all sweet), beautiful beach, and great pools and tennis courts and such. The only drag is the restaurant isnt that great, and there aren't many choices nearby, if you're not staying in the pricey villas. There is a killer jerk joint (which is, sadly, exclusively full of tourists) down the street, though, Scotchies. KEEP IN MIND: You are a 20-minute drive from Montego Bay, and removed from the real Jamaica.
“A Premier Resort”
This was one of the better experiences we've had bar none. The staff is polite and attentive. The accomodations are exemplary, and the grounds are magnificent. On the down side, was the pricing of food and drinks. We paid $22 on average for two drinks.... this is exhorbitant, and you are sort of captive to it since travelling outside the resort requires assistence to insure your safety (at night).
“Amazing Resort”
The resort was beautiful and the room was beyond my expectations. The service was good and the staff were friendly. The only downside was that food and activities were a little pricey. This is definately the place to stay.
“I would definitely go back!!!”
The staff was pleasant, friendly,and helpful. The room was beautiful and the view was breath taking.
“Outstanding”
This hotel was beautiful and the service was excellent. I had some business to transact, and the staff went out of their way to assist. The ocean view suite was the best.
“I wanted to stay!”
This was the first time my sister and I traveled to Jamaica and we had the best time of our lives. EVERYONE was so nice and friendly. We heard that Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles and a host of other royals and celebrities stay there, but they treat everyone like royalty. We truly felt like two Queens. I didn't want to leave, but I definitely will return. Take lots of cash because they love to receive tips, but they deserve it! The staff at Half Moon is the best!! The resort is beautiful!! The entertainment was great!! Half Moon is my home away from home. I can't imagine staying anywhere else. Thank you Half Moon for making our trip so momentus. We can't stop talking about it. meals. I highly recommend Half Moon! Enjoy your trip! Yeah Mon!
“Great Value”
If you do not like huge towering hotel, this is the place for you. Staff was very freindly.
“Jamaica's Best!”
This hotel is beautiful. My husband and I were attending a family member's wedding being held at the hotel. The wedding was just exquisite. It was like being in a fairy tale setting. Walking the beach in the early morning was simply the best. Every one of the hotel/spa staff was professional, friendly, extremely courteous, attentive and very respectful. I would go back in a minute!
“Best Place in Montego Bay”
Had a great time at the Half Moon Club. The staff there is incredible. Would go back in a heartbeat. Very private,not for party people. More for families and couples who like it quiet and relaxing. Rented bikes and rode around their 400 acre heaven. You can even rent golf clubs. Food a bit pricey so recommend the meal plan. worth it.
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The preferred airport for Half Moon is Montego Bay (MBJ-Sir Donald Sangster Intl.) - 7.9 km / 4.9 mi.
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