Click profile photo for ea bedroom listing. Airport shuttle $25/1+$10/pp. Free Tea/coffee/toast. Safe friendly area. Bonus for fee: A.C. $1 hr/bedrm, massage. hair braiding, cooking class/meals, tours incl. our organic farm. 1 block to grocery, cook shops, ice cream, $ exchange, route taxis ($1US) 10 minute drive to center city & free Harmony beach. Live-in hosts for assistance. Health/tour tips. Near bus, dining, dancing, shops, museums. Cool breezes/views. Sky Lounge/wkspace, hammock. Our guest home is built on top of Mount Salem, so there’s always a cool breeze and views from our roof deck and verandas, overlooking Montego Bay, the ocean, and mountains. Reggae music is usually wafting through the air from the nearby corner of indoor markets, takeout food, and other local neighborhood services. It’s just a short drive from the airport, the “hip strip” for dancing, shopping, and beaches, the straw market for local crafts, carvings and clothing, the experience of downtown and suburban health food store, pharmacies, bookstores, and large supermarkets. You can enjoy the living room, kitchen, and verandas on your floor. The two suites, one on each floor have separate entrances but can be joined together for larger groups. All are welcome to the roof deck, 2nd fl verandas, and roof deck. Route taxis ($1US to dlowntown, shopping, beaches, etc.), grocery stores, markets, ice cream and take-out food are a block down the street. We enjoy interacting with our guests, and are also fine with giving you your own separate space and quiet . . . whatever you desire. We are here to help you have the best vacation possible. We’ve had a number of guests who all gave us excellent reviews before we listed. Toney is an excellent chef for meals and juices prepared with fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, fish and chicken from the nearby farmers’ market. If you wish, he’ll guide you through the market, and provide cooking lessons. He’s a great ‘selector’ of CD love songs, soul and reggae music. Cheri, a certified health education coach, enjoys sharing her miracle recovery from cancer using natural healing methods. We both love to introduce our guests to welcoming family and friends, the beautiful beaches and countryside, cultural history, folktales, and the variety of attractions. Montego Bay is the second largest city in Jamaica and preferred destination for most tourists. It's an hour from Negril, two to Ocho Rios. We'll pick you up and take you back to the airport. Cheri met Toney in 1994 when she came to Jamaica to find a guest house she had ‘dreamed’ she was to have in retirement. Instead, she met Toney; they instantly fell in love and were married in 1996, raising two sons in Philadelphia. In 2006, the time was right for Toney, with a contractor friend and family expertise, to build our guest-house. The name combines our November birthstones—topaz, plus my dream, plus it looks like a palace, doesn’t it! Be ready to be treated like the Queens and Kings you are! We live in a very safe middle-class neighborhood where you can walk any hour of night or day. Conveniently, just a block away are grocery stores, small markets, an ice cream shop, and take out food cookshops, and inexpensive Mt. Salem route taxis to take you downtown in 10 minutes and a bit further to beaches, dining, dancing, and shopping. MENU: Topaz Dream Palace Jamaican Homestyle Sample Menu Prepared by Chef Jah B with TLC; By request by the eve before. Ital meals also available. Healthy coconut oil is used for fried foods and when oil is called for in heated dishes. Items are subject to seasonal availability. Sample choices: Morning Gratis: High (Blue) Mountain coffee, or tea (i.e., ginger, mint, green tea, noni, nutritious sour-sop leaves from yard, or garlic). Plus, sometimes banana. $2.50 USD: (small juice glass): i.e., mango carrot, guava pineapple, lime in coconut water. $8.00USD A. Fruit and/or green smoothie with selection when available: juiced pineapple, mango, banana, papaya, melon, chia, flax, ginger, spirulina, callaloo, bok choy, lettuce B. Callaloo/cabbage, fried plantain, and fried dumplings or festival (or breadfruit in season) C. Fresh fruit banana, pau pau/papaya, pineapple, watermelon, cantaloupe, mango D. Ackee* with/wo salt fish (national breakfast), yam, green banana, festival (sweet fried bread) E. Pancakes, scrambled eggs (with tomato, onion, green pepper), and turkey sausage. F. Oatmeal with selection: cinnamon/cane sugar, honey, almonds, raisons, banana, chia Mid-day or Evening $8.00USD choice of: A. Green/fruit Smoothie or Tossed Fresh Salad: selection of dark green lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, green pepper, carrot, tomato, onion, almonds, sunflower, chia, pumpkin seeds, pear/called avocado (Aug.-Sept.), and dressing B. Soup: pumpkin, chicken, fish, Rasta sip (red bean-based with vegetables) C. Pasta: with broccoli, cauliflower, carrot, tomato, onion, with or without tomato sauce D. $12 USD: Chicken: curried, brown-stewed, fried, or jerk E. $16 USD: Fish: Red Snapper: steamed, fried, brown-stewed, Trout steak: fried, brown-stewed, or F. $16 USD: Beef: ox-tail, brown-stewed, or hamburger (minced beef) Entries served with 3 choices: Rice ‘n peas (red beans); stewed peas (seasoned red beans with some veggies); yam (renter, sweet, yellow), dasheen (taro/coco), and/or pumpkin; callaloo, cooked cabbage, or salad. *Ackee: yellow fruit with taste/look/texture similar to scrambled eggs. Only eat from tree when self-opened. Enjoy! 20 Crichton Drive, Mt Salem, Jamaica Enjoy local treats like breadfruit, water apples, June plums, 'sweet' soursop fruit, mangos, spice buns, cocoa balls, coconut drops, grape-nut ice cream, sweet potato pudding, and "blue drawers." Feast on ackee and salt fish (the national dish; ackee from our backyard tree), jerk chicken, curried goat, festival (sweet fried pastry), yam, green banana, rice and peas (red beans), and callaloo (greens), and snack on patties (veggies, chicken or beef in fried pastry). Savor mountain spring water, coconut water, pineapple, soursop, cherry, and mango juices, Ting (carbonated grapefruit), sorrel, ginger beer, rum cream, Red Stripe beer, and the nutritious tea from moringa or soursop leaves (from our backyard tree). We'll be glad to arrange transportation to/from airport $25/1+ $10pp, and other locations. Only if you've driven expertly in Jamaica, NY, Rome or Caracas, consider renting your own car! MoBay Sumfest is mid-July (a week of all-night reggae artists); Emancipation Day Aug 1; Independence Day Aug 6; much more. The Maroon Festival high in the Mountains (celebrates the peace treaty that successful runaway enslaved Africans signed with British in 1739), Jan. 6; Rebel Salute (a two "night-long" reggae stage show around Jan 15 nearer Ocho Rios; the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival in January, TBA in Ocho Rios; Bob Marley celebrations (Feb. 1-6 mostly in Kingston), Feel One Love and express ahhh as you visit with the artists at Rasnatango Gardens and Gallery, feed hummingbirds close-up, experience the breathtaking views; then go to Rastafari indigenous Village for drumming/chanting, learning about Rasta livity, make jewelry from meaningful seeds, powder cocoa, get herbal, healing soaps, watch an elder make drums from tree log, perhaps carve some calabash. View or join in the cliff jumping at the famous Rick's Cafe in Negril, go to Calico Jack's, an island bar with exquisite grilled lobster; In Ocho Rios, climb Dunns River Falls, and down Little Dunn's River Falls (for free); go zip-lining and bobsledding, swim with the dolphins (sharks and sting rays); drive through Fern Gully (and down south, through Bamboo Avenue). Go rafting on the Martha Brae, and snorkeling with Captain Poly's glass bottom boat, add 10 years to your life by swimming in the rare sparkling Luminous Lagoon, tour the Green Grotto Cave, go horseback riding in the mountains and along the ocean, bike ride through the Blue Mountains, enjoy the 7-levels of YS Falls, tour the Appleton Rum Estate and factory, Mobay: dine in the Houseboat Grill, Pier 1 and the Pelican Grill, dance at Pier 1, Clock Tower, Margaritaville, Rehab Sports bar, (Taboo, and Moods strip clubs); Jazzy Blue Beat and The Jungle (In Negril), hang out at Mackie's, Powers, the Brewery; go to services in the St. James Anglican church, built in 1775, and meet family and friends near Jah B’s hometown nestled in the rural mountains (where we met).