Montego Bay has been welcoming visitors over fifty (50) years to share in her joie de vivre.

Millions of cruises ship passengers have had brief acquaintance with this the second city in Jamaica. The port of Montego Bay was built in the 1960s on which was called the Bogue Islands; the area is now called Montego Freeport.

Visit historical great houses or working plantations that were formerly grand estates. How about an exhilarating round of golf on one our championship courses nearby a game of tennis, or just laze around on the beach. Others may wish to experience an guided river ride on a bamboo raft, or an exciting sailing cruise or take a snorkeling or scuba expedition in the Montego Bay Marine Park which covered 15 square Km with beautiful fish, corals and other aquatic life.

Montego Bay is Jamaica's second city in size and importance, but it is the island's tourism capital. It boasts the most hotel accommodation; the most transport facilities and is, in fact, a cosmopolitan holiday centre, offering a wide choice of amenities. Montego Bay is divided into three fairly distinct parts. There is the city itself with its crowded streets. There is the "hotel area" which is the mile-and-a-half strip running from the town, past the celebrated Doctor's Cave Beach and out to the Dead End Bar. Thirdly, there are the outlying  hotels and villas on beach or hillside.

Architecture is a mixture of last-century "gingerbread" wooden houses interspersed with modern buildings, many of which harmonize because Georgian facades never really went out of fashion.

Sam Sharpe Square, a pleasant cobble stoned hub of activity, is roughly the centre of the town where stands the Cage, formerly a jail for runaway slaves,and the ruins of the Courthouse, built in 1804 and destroyed by fire some 20 years ago.

The name Montego Bay derives from the Spanish name Manteca Bahía or Bay of Lard, so called because of the lard-making industry made possible by the hunting of wild boars which abounded in the surrounding hills.

Montego Bay was a sugar and banana town but the sugar factories have closed down and bananas are now shipped out from Kingston and Port Antonio so the picturesque sight of women carrying bananas on their heads and singing the Tallyman song while carrying out their back-breaking work, is a thing of the past. Montego Bay's original claim to resort fame was the fabulous Doctor's Cave Beach which attracted celebrities and socialites from all over the world. The Beach is said to be fed by mineral springs and it certainly rejoices in the most uncommonly clear and sparkling water.