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Jamaica Leads World’s Best Caribbean Hotel Category

Thursday, 21/08/2008

Jamaica is the Caribbean island with the most resorts on Travel + Leisure magazine’s 13th annual World’s Best Awards readers’ survey, with five hotels named to the list of Top 25 Hotels, Caribbean, Bermuda and the Bahamas.

The top-ranked Jamaican hotel is Couples Swept Away. The resort, located in Negril, appears on the World’s Best Awards list for the first time this year and is ranked number five in its category. There are three other Negril properties also on the World’s Best Awards list of Top 25 Hotels, Caribbean, Bermuda, and the Bahamas this year.

The Jamaican properties on the list of Top 25 Hotels, Caribbean, Bermuda and Bahamas category include: Couples Swept Away (5); Couples Negril (8); Half Moon (13); Sandals Whitehouse European Village & Spa (23); and Grand Lido Negril Resort & Spa (24).

Survey results for the 2008 World’s Best Awards appear in the magazine’s August 2008 edition, on newsstands now and online at www.travelandleisure.com/worldsbest.
A complete methodology of the awards also appears on the Web site.

Jamaica has been the most recognized Caribbean island in the hotels category in Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards readers’ survey for the past several years. In 2007, the island-nation held six spots in Top 25 Hotels, Caribbean, Bermuda & the Bahamas category.

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TINA THOMPSON (Friday, 22-08-2008 09:03) you wrote:
My family and I just experience a horrible experience at Jamaica Grande In Ocho. Needless to say the staff was rude and very uncooperative. We were not the only guest who had this experience many people was saying they would never come back to this hotel.
KIM (Friday, 26-09-2008 03:54) you wrote:
I went to Jamaica and i just came back the the ppl that that same hotel was very nice they attend to me ever need. Maybe you when at a bad time and that is no excuse.

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