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Grand Palladium Jamaica Resort & Spa
A 537-room family resort at Point Lucea, 32 km and about forty minutes from Montego Bay airport, documented from the operator’s own fact sheet dated May 2026. It publishes a full room breakdown by category, white sand, a lifeguard, and 48 rooms with a private pool.
At a glance
| Audience | family verified 2026-09-13 |
|---|---|
| Minimum age | Not published by the operator |
| Rooms | 537 rooms verified 2026-09-13 |
| Location | Point Lucea, Hanover, Jamaica verified 2026-09-13 |
| Transfer from Cancun airport | 40 minutes verified 2026-09-13 |
| Check-in | 15:00 verified 2026-09-13 |
| Check-out | 12:00 verified 2026-09-13 |
| Pools | Not published by the operator |
| Adults-only pool | Not published by the operator |
| Restaurants | Not published by the operator |
| Kids club | Not published by the operator |
| Complex access | Not published by the operator |
The first non-RIU resort we can document in Jamaica
Until now every Jamaican property in our coverage was RIU, because RIU’s pages were the ones we could read. This one comes from Palladium’s own property fact sheet, dated May 2026.
A room breakdown, by category, with counts
537 rooms, published as: 317 Junior Suites, 71 Junior Suite Oceanfront, 60 Suites, 40 Junior Suites with a private pool and ocean view, 20 Suites Oceanfront, 15 Junior Suites Poolside, 8 Suites with a private pool, oceanfront, and 6 Junior Suites Ocean View. With floor areas for each.
Nothing else in our coverage publishes this. It means you can see that 48 rooms — just under 9% — have their own pool, rather than reading “private pool suites available” and guessing.
Facts nobody else publishes
White sand, and a lifeguard on the beach. Beach type is one of the fields we most often have to record as unknown; this operator simply states it.
One accessible room, with level access and pool access both confirmed. That is a small number in a 537-room resort, and it is published rather than hidden, which is the only reason we can tell you.
Built 2007, refurbished 2022 — the most recent refurbishment date we hold anywhere.
The figures that are not this hotel’s
The fact sheet gives 5 swimming pools, 21 bars, and 3 show-cooking plus 7 a la carte restaurants.
Those are complex totals. The neighbouring Grand Palladium Lady Hamilton publishes identical figures on its own fact sheet, and the restaurant table tags each venue with the hotel it physically sits in — some at Grand Palladium Jamaica, some at Lady Hamilton.
So we have recorded them as complex facts and left this property’s own pool, bar and restaurant counts unknown. Printing “21 bars” against a single hotel would have been wrong by a factor we cannot even measure.
Forty minutes
32 km from Sangster International, about forty minutes by taxi.
That is the middle of Jamaica’s range: much further than the 2.7 km Montego Bay corridor, and closer than Ocho Rios at ninety minutes or Negril at 80 km.
What is not published
Kids club age bands, despite three clubs being named. No minimum age. No mandatory fee schedule.
What the rate includes
Not published by the operator.
What it does not include
Not published by the operator.
Mandatory costs
The operator does not publish a mandatory fee schedule on its official pages. That is not the same as there being no fee. It means we read the official source and found no figure, so we are not going to state one. Confirm any property charges at the point of booking.
Costs that apply wherever you stay in Quintana Roo
Strengths, and what supports them
- Publishes a full room breakdown by category with counts and floor areas
Because: rooms.categories - 48 rooms with their own private pool, published as counts by category
Because: rooms.private_pool_rooms - Publishes beach sand type and the presence of a lifeguard
Because: beach.beach_type, beach.lifeguard - Publishes accessible-room provision and level access
Because: accessibility.accessible_rooms - The fact sheet carries its own date, so the evidence can be aged honestly
Because: inclusions.board_basis
Limitations, and what supports them
- Pool, bar and restaurant figures are complex totals printed on both hotels’ fact sheets, so this property’s own counts are unknown
Because: complex.bars_total needs_reverification - One accessible room in a 537-room resort
Because: accessibility.accessible_rooms, rooms.room_count - Forty minutes from the airport, against 2.7 km for the Montego Bay corridor resorts
Because: location.airport_distance
Who it suits
- young family
- multigen
- long stay
- value seeker
Who it is not for
- Travellers on a short stay
Because: location.airport_transfer_minutes – forty minutes each way against under fifteen on the Montego Bay corridor - Adults wanting a child-free resort
Because: identity.audience_class = family - Anyone relying on the headline pool and bar counts
Because: complex.pools_total – those figures are complex totals shared with the neighbouring hotel, not this property’s own - Parents who need confirmed kids club ages
Because: unknowns.children.kids_club_age_bands
What the operator does not publish
We checked the official source for each of these and it was not stated. We have not filled them in from anywhere else:
- minimum age
- kids club age bands
- restaurant count
- bar count
- pool count
- mandatory fees
Prices
We do not publish prices for this resort yet. We only publish a price when we can state the amount, what it covers, the basis it is quoted on, and when we observed it.
We have no affiliate relationship for Grand Palladium Jamaica Resort & Spa yet, so this is not a tracked link and we earn nothing from it. When that changes, this page will say so and the disclosure will appear above it.
Sources
- Palladium Hotel Group — read 2026-09-13
Last verified 2026-09-13. We re-check resort facts at least every six months.
Last verified 2026-09-13.