Jamaica Hotels Offer Assortment of Holiday Specials

Several Jamaica hotels and resorts are offering holiday value-added packages that coincide with Jamaican cultural holiday festivities and winter events. Breezes Runaway Bay Resort & Golf Club is offering a five-night Girls Golf Getaway package featuring a one-hour private lesson at the resort’s 18-hole golf course; a one-hour native’s touch massage; and a manicure and pedicure at the full-service, à la carte Blue Mahoe Spa. The package starts at $1,065, double occupancy.

CocoLaPalm is offering special savings on all room categories from Jan. 2 to April 14, 2011, with rates starting at $140 for standard rooms based on double occupancy. The rate is not available from Dec. 23, 2010, to Jan. 1, 2011, or Feb. 8 to Feb. 24, 2010. For more information, visit www.cocolapalm.com. The “Fifth Night Free” package at Coyaba Beach Resort offers travelers every fifth night free for stays through April 15, 2011. Rates start at $360 per room, per night, double occupancy. This offer is not valid during all major holidays.

The Jamaica Inn’s 2010 Holiday Season “Short Minimum Stay” package allows guests to forgo the 10-night minimum stay, and instead book for seven nights from Dec. 23, 2010, to Jan. 3, 2011. For more information, visit www.jamaicainn.com. Hilton Rose Hall Resort & Spa is celebrating the season with a “Winter Escape All-Inclusive” special offering guests who book by April 28, 2011, up to $250 in resort credits. This deal offers a $50 per-room resort credit with a minimum two-night stay; each additional night’s stay earns a $25 incremental resort credit. The special all-inclusive rates are per room, based on double occupancy, and start at $249 through Dec. 20, 2010; at $539 from Dec. 21, 2010, to Jan. 1, 2011; and at $349 from Jan. 2 to April 30, 2011.

Foote Prints on the Sands is offering a room rate of $80 from Dec. 15, 2010, to April 15, 2011. The offer is based on double occupancy, with a supplement of $20 for an additional person. For more information, visit www.hotelfootprints.com. Round Hill Hotel and Villas’ “Winter Escape” package offers a $400 resort credit for stays of four nights or longer in an oceanfront room. Guests can stay in a Ralph Lauren-designed room with vaulted ceilings and ocean views at a nightly room rate of $495. This package is available for travel from Jan. 3 to Feb. 13, 2011. The booking code is Winter4.

The Wexford Hotel in Montego Bay is offering special winter room rates of $90 and $105, based on single and double occupancy, respectively, including breakfast, through March 31, 2011. Guests can also opt for the all-inclusive plan of $120 per person, per night. For more information, visit www.thewexfordhotel.com. Guests at Richmond Hill Inn can enjoy special rates starting at $90 for a minimum two-night stay in a standard double room. This package is valid for travel until April 30, 2011.

Guests at any of the four Couples Resorts properties -- Couples Negril, Couples Tower Isle, Couples Swept Away, and Couples Sans Souci -- can stay at any of these properties for rates starting at $316 per night, per room from now until Dec. 25, 2010. For more information, visit www.couples.com. From Jan. 5 through Feb. 12, 2011, Villas by Linda Smith is offering complimentary couples massages to guests. Bookings must be made by Jan. 1, 2011.