"Jamaica's Rockhouse hotel is the ultimate exotic escape. With brilliant sunsets, chic décor and credo of brotherhood and goodwill, it's the total package." "Caribbean Dream"
"Jamaica's Rockhouse hotel is the ultimate exotic escape. With brilliant sunsets, chic décor and credo of brotherhood and goodwill, it's the total package." "Caribbean Dream"
Rockhouse is a boutique hotel stretching across the cliffs of Pristine Cove in Negril. The resort, nestled amongst eight acres of tropical lush gardens, boasts a 60-foot cliff-top horizon pool and an award winning restaurant set on a balcony suspended directly over the water. Thatched roofed villas with private sun-bathing decks perch on the cliff's edge, and throughout the property, ladders and stairs carved into the rock lead down to easy water access for swimming and snorkeling on the reef.
Rockhouse has a newly constructed Spa, where the philosophy is a simple, holistic approach to well-being, health and happiness with Jamaican style. Spa treatments are undertaken "on-the-rocks" in the cliff-edge Massage Cabana, at the Caribbean Drench hut, inside the eight room garden spa, or can be arranged in the privacy of your guest room. Yoga classes are offered daily in the recently built yoga room.
The Rockhouse vibe is laid back; you'll find that bare feet are more common than dress shoes at the restaurant. As the restaurant's menu cover most appropriately warns – "Visiting Rockhouse for lunch can lead to staying for the sunset, ordering a cocktail, booking for dinner, checking in for a week, and coming back every year for the rest of your life ... Don't say we didn't warn you!"
Rockhouse is consistently ranked one of the top resorts in the Caribbean. In 2007 Rockhouse is nominated for four World Travel Awards including best Boutique Hotel in the Caribbean for the 3rd consecutive year. In the November 2007 issue of US Condé Nast Traveler Magazine's "Best In the World" Awards the readers ranked Rockhouse Hotel as the #17 Resort in the Caribbean and the #2 Resort in Jamaica overall. In August 2007 Travel & Leisure readers voted Rockhouse into the "Worlds Best" including the hotel in the Top 25 hotels of the Caribbean. 2007 marks the first time Rockhouse has been included this "Best In The World" list and the "World's Best" list. Patricia Schults named Rockhouse as one of the "1000 Places to See Before You Die" in her New York Times Best Selling Book, and Kay Showker included Rockhouse in her book "100 Best Resorts in the Caribbean."
The hotel is located on the cliffs, two and a half miles west of Negril town on Negril's West End Road. The hotel is sited on the western most point of Jamaica – the best spot for sunsets. The closest major international airport is Montego Bay, just over an hour away.
The objective of the hotel is to responsibly and sustainably balance the interests of all the parties: giving the guests an amazing vacation, making the staff partners in the success, taking care of the environment, while putting back into the community through the Rockhouse Foundation.
"Mornings at Rockhouse we listened to the surf crash while we drank coffee in bed; afternoons we read by the pool, snorkeled, or scanned for dolphins; evenings we watched the sunset, then ate dinner beneath the stars."
"Close to Negril, Pristine Cove is quite an address to live up to, but Rockhouse Hotel fuses sensitively with the rocky landscape."
"Once in a while, we stumble across a place so friendly it feels like home – albeit a particularly stylish home with horizon pool, queen-size four-posters, private sun terraces, open-air showers and a dining room suspended over the sea. Jamaica's Rockhouse Hotel is just such a place."
"Look beyond the great design, the glorious sunset view, the charming service and cleansing sea breeze... you'll see the world in a better light and you'll find one of Jamaica's most relaxed and authentic experiences."
"Relaxed and insanely chilled I finally understood why nothing is a problem... with reggae playing in the background whilst the ocean laps against the rocks below, the Rockhouse is as unpretentious as you could wish a place to be."