Jamaica Heights Resort Port Antonio, Port Antonio Villas, Jamaica

Location

Housed in a plantation home on top of a hill, this intimate hotel is surrounded by tropical vegetation and rain forest. The columned verandas, whitewashed walls, dark hardwood floors, louvered windows, French doors and cool white–and–blue color scheme combine to provide a gracious environment.

Accommodation

The six rooms and two cottages are tastefully furnished with white wicker and antiques, plus four–poster beds. A spa offers massage and treatments, and there's a beautiful plunge pool plus a nature trail.

The minimalist accommodations are spotlessly clean. Each has a four–poster bed and funky lighting fixtures, plus tub/shower combination bathrooms. Doors can be opened or closed to create suites with between two and four bedrooms.

Doors can be opened or closed within this scattered hotel to create suites with between two and four bedrooms. Don't overlook the possibility of renting the entire compound for a worldly, and ultra–private retreat at a place that's much, much more iconoclastic than what you might have found at a typical hotel or guesthouse.

Dining and Refreshment

There's an in–house restaurant that's open only to residents of the hotel and their guests, a swimming pool, a riverfront gazebo for swimming, and the possibility, through Helmut, of arranging any of the land– or watersports available in the surrounding region.

The garden sports exotic palms a stream with its own waterfalls, the most elegant Ping–Pong pavilion in the world, and dozens of botanical oddities from around the world.