Are you considering the Secret St. James
in Montego Bay Jamaica because if so
I'm Christine with Where in the World is cL
and I make videos like this to help you
Get up get out and travel.
Today I've got a room walk through of a Junior suite
Ocean View room. If you stick around until the end I'll share with you a couple
quick tips to help make your travel into
Montego Bay a little bit smoother and if
you're curious how much I spent and if I
would recommend it I'll share that as well
Alright let's take a look!
Like I mentioned I was in a Junior suite
oceanfront room. My lobby experience was underwhelming
I didn't receive a welcome drink and
when I went to the bar myself I was served
cheap champagne in a paper cup.
So when I first entered the room
I was surprised because I was expecting
the worst the finishes were actually
pretty nice and the room was well lit
they provide a small bottle of rum with
the room along with a nice welcome
letter and they had the standard coffee
lineup that you would expect there was a
mini fridge in the room that the
housekeeping staff will keep well
stocked and outside there's a nice patio
coming back inside there was a nice
sitting area and the bed was actually
pretty comfortable the bathroom was
spacious and they provided full-sized
amenities like shampoo and body wash
they also had side by side sinks and a
separate bathtub they did provide
bathrobes but no supper and in the
closet you have the standard safe
clothes steamer instead of iron and
hairdryer the thing that I was really
wowed by in the room was the butler door
in other words as you order a room
service from the tablet that's by the
bed if you have the privacy indicator on
for the room they will deliver your food
into the butler door so as not to
disturb you oh there's my Gray Goose
soda I'll take that food is included
with your room but you need to pay for
alcohol to be delivered otherwise
alcohol is included if you go to the bar
yourself so there is your room tour I
hope you found it helpful
and thanks for sticking around till the
end I have two quick tips to help your
travel into Montego Bay just a little
bit smoother tip number one if you're
flying in
to sangster airport or mbj airport the
resorts including the secret st. James
in Montego Bay are super close to the
airport depending on traffic it takes
anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes to get to
the hotels there are three ways that you
can get there the first way are taxis
and there's two different types of taxis
the second way is through private
transportation whether that means a
shared shuttle or your own private
shuttle and the third way is renting a
car it comes to taxis there are two
different types of taxis but everything
I read online made me feel like it would
be difficult to get the actual going
price in other words you might get
scanned by someone in a taxi I decided I
didn't really want to go that route but
I'll link one of the most helpful
articles that I read in the description
below so you can take a look the second
way to do transportation is with the
shared or private shuttles or cars and
this is the route that I took I went
with AM star which is the primary
transportation company that works with
the secret st. James and I found them to
be the most inexpensive almost half the
price of what I normally saw out there
which was $48 round-trip transportation
for two people one of the other reasons
why I liked going with AM star was I was
able to pay with my credit card online
in advance in other words my goal when I
went to Jamaica because I was only there
for three days short party weekend was
not to exchange any money in other words
I paid for my hotel in advance and I
paid for my transportation advance which
brings me to my final tip which is
bringing money for gratuity you don't
need to exchange dollar bills for
Jamaican dollars when you're giving
gratuity everyone at the resorts doing
it in u.s. dollars so if you're
wondering how much did she pay I stayed
at this resort in September of 2019 and
I stayed from a Saturday to a Monday I
was originally going to buck through
some discounted travel website but I
always do my homework and I look on the
hotel website as well to price compare
this was exactly the same to book
directly through the hotel versus
booking through some outside blood
I always prefer to book with the hotel
so I paid in full in advance for two
nights with taxes and all in it was 806
dollars and again that's all-inclusive
so all your food your activities your
drinks etc and if you wanted to see what
I did during that time don't forget to
watch the video linked below so would I
recommend the secret st. James to be
honest it wasn't my first choice hotel
the other ones that I was looking at
were fully booked during the time in
which I was taking this trip I did a lot
of other research so please drop me a
comment below if you're considering the
st. James or somewhere else
I'd love to have a conversation about
what you're considering and compare it
to what I was looking at the three
reasons why I chose the secret st. James
is because it's an adult all-inclusive
which means a little bit more on the
drinking side the second is because it
was really close to the airport and the
third is because from everything I
looked at its kind of seemed like you
should stay at an all-inclusive you had
to fit all of those items and it had its
hits and misses I did write a full
TripAdvisor review that you can find in
the description below would I recommend
it yeah I would recommend it if it's on
your list of places you are looking at
but if I were to go back to Montego Bay
I'd probably stay at one of the other
resorts I was considering alright mom
it's time for you to get up get out go
travel and get after life I'll see you
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