Sangster International Airport (MBJ): Approximate driving time is 15 minutes and distance is 5 miles (9 km.)

Driving directions from Sangster International Airport: Take the main road leading from the airport east towards Rose Hall. The hotel is on the left.

Getting there: The most popular way is by the hotel’s own shuttle van ($16–25 USD per adult round trip; half-price for children under 12.) Taxis ($16–25 USD), Town Cars (more than $36 USD), and rental cars (more than $36 USD) are also available. Fees subject to change without notice. Rental cars are available online.

Getting around: Walking outside the property allows some shopping and dining choices, but for more variety, a trip to Montego Bay is the best choice. The hotel arranges tour shuttles up to 3 hours long to the city for more than $36 USD, maximum of 4 passengers. Fees subject to change without notice. Taxis and minivans can be flagged down or called, but only those with red Public Passenger Vehicle (PPV) plates should be used. Local buses and private taxis are not recommended for safety reasons. Driving is not recommended for those unaccustomed to fast traffic on the left side of the road.

Il Giardino - Located next to Seagrape Terrace. Air-conditioned dining room with gray marble floor, sponged rose walls. Ocean-view terrace seating at wrought-iron tables. Italian cuisine featuring vegetables, herbs from resort garden. Choices include tagliolini with shellfish in crayfish sauce, goat cheese-celery ravioli with walnut pesto, osso buco, rack of lamb, and grilled swordfish. Dinner only.

Sugar Mill Restaurant - Located in garden near golf course. Adjacent to 200-year-old working water wheel. Inside, veranda, and terrace seating. Jamaican specialties such as curried crayfish bisque; chicken-pineapple stew; dasheen-crusted mahi mahi; roasted duck with warm pineapple-cabbage salad; jerked chicken, pork, fish combination. Also, grilled steaks, fish. Dinner only.

La Baguette - Large, open-air pavilion with ocean view near pool in resort's main section. Brick floor, rattan seating, colorful seat cushions, and yellow walls. Continental breakfast. Afternoon snacks and tropical drinks. Pool table.

The resort's Shopping Village contains two privately owned restaurants, The Royal Stocks English Pub & Steakhouse featuring traditional pub fare and Jamaican specialties for lunch and dinner and Sakura, a Japanese teppanyaki restaurant open for dinner only.

Following a complimentary cocktail reception on Monday and Friday evenings, the resort offers a beach barbecue at picnic tables under trees decorated with lights. A steel band plays before and after crab races in the sand.

The resort contains six bars, including Lester's Bar off the lobby, a beach bar, and a golf-course bar.

Amenity highlights: Guests have best of both worlds: To the west of the resort’s main buildings is 2-mile Caribbean Sea frontage that includes Sunset Beach on calm, crescent-shape Half Moon Bay, which is the focus of swimming and non-motorized water sports. To the east of these buildings is long, uncrowded Sunrise Beach (protected by an artificial reef) offering motorized sports, sunbathing, tranquil ocean watching, and a dolphin-encounter lagoon. The resort's principal pool area consists of a 25-meter lap pool and a free-form pool connected by a waterfall complex containing water slides and a large swim-up bar. (Completion in December 2003.) Another pool offers tranquil swimming and sunbathing in a red brick courtyard adjacent to a bar/snack bar.

Insider tip: Swinging from seagrape trees along Half Moon Bay, three rustic, cage-like hammock-chairs provide shady relaxation for a lucky few each day. Some guests commission the artisan to construct one or more of the wood-frame, rattan-wrapped hammock-chairs for their homes.

Half Moon Club's attention to nature earned it admission to The Caribbean Green Hall of Fame, the first hotel so honored. And the grounds are one reason for the resort consistently appearing on Condé Nast Traveler's Top 50 Tropical Resorts list and Travel + Leisure 's Top 25 Caribbean Hotels list.

Occupying its own building, the resort's health spa offers complimentary men's and women's saunas and steam rooms and, for fees, massage, body treatments, facials, and nail care. Treatment rooms include those for hydrotherapies such as Moor Mud Bath, Tyrolean Stone Oil Bath and Wrap, Vichy shower, and Swiss shower. A large, pavilion-like couples room includes a two-person jetted tub, twin tables beneath a ceiling mirror, and two cushioned rattan lounge chairs. Couples choices include Lovers' Fantasy (jet tub, candlelight, soft music, champagne) and Tropical Escape (massage, jet tub, champagne).

Body treatments include exfoliations such as Aroma Salt Glo (Dead Sea salts and oils), Gentle Polish (apricot-kernel cream), and Body Gomage (aromatic steambath, scrub with sea sand, oats, and aromatic oils). Body wraps include herbal, sea algae, and rehydrating-oil. Facials include Aromatic Hydrator, Sun Soother, and Deep Pore Cleanser. Massage options include Swedish, sports, aroma, and in a seaside gazebo.

An enormous, complimentary fitness center provides Nautilus weight-training machines and free weights in one air-conditioned room and cardio equipment and aerobics classes in another. Yoga classes are offered in a separate building. Water aerobics are also available. (Fees charged for classes.)

Located in a quiet, secluded area shaded by trees and bamboo, a complimentary children's center includes a two-story air-conditioned clubhouse, a fish-feeding pond, playground equipment, a thatch playhouse, video games, video movies, and a pool with a short waterslide. Supervisors offer half- and full-day activity sessions for ages 3-6 and ages 7-12.

The resort includes both a shopping arcade with international-brand-name boutiques and a Shopping Village. Featuring canary-yellow buildings with red tile roofs, the village includes shops, the Bob Marley Experience (68-seat theater for free video biography and souvenirs), a 24-bed hospital, a dentist, a bank, a post office, a grocery, a beauty shop, a public school, and two restaurants.

Complimentary shuttle service transports guests, stopping at selected points every 20 minutes including the golf course, the Shopping Village, and to Sugar Mill Restaurant near the golf course. Bicycles and golf carts are available for rent.

For-fee water-sports equipment and activities include windsurfers, kayaks, Hobie-Wave sailboats, snorkeling gear, pedal boats, glass-bottom boats, water skiing, parasailing, banana-boating, deep-sea fishing, and cruising. Motorized and non-motorized water sports are offered on two widely separated beaches. Aerobics, water aerobics, and yoga are offered for fees.

Complimentary recreational facilities include 13 tennis courts (four artificial grass and nine hard surface, with nine lighted); two championship croquet lawns; an 18-hole putting course; Ping-Pong; pool; badminton; volleyball; horseshoes; and a giant outdoor chess set.

Instruction is available for tennis, croquet, horseback riding, and windsurfing. Other recreational facilities listed below are available at the resort.