Hotel Riu Palace Jamaica

Ten to fifteen minutes from the plane

This is the shortest published airport transfer of any resort we have documented, anywhere. Two point seven kilometres from Sangster International.

That number deserves more weight than it usually gets. On a four-night trip, the difference between this and a ninety-minute transfer is roughly three hours of holiday — most of an afternoon and an evening, taken off the two days that are already the most compressed. Resort features get compared endlessly; transfer time gets a shrug, and it is often the larger variable.

It cuts the other way too. A resort three kilometres from a runway is not a remote one, and anyone whose picture of Jamaica is seclusion should read that number as a warning rather than a feature.

Three infinity pools

Published specifically: three infinity pools with swim-up loungers, plus one outdoor pool with a swim-up bar. Again, that is a described layout rather than a count, which is the more useful form.

Splash Water World access and the Renova Spa are both stated as part of what the rate reaches — unusual for an adults-only property to publish a water park, and worth knowing if that is not what you are looking for.

The missing age

Labelled adults-only, with no minimum age published. The same gap as its sister property along the same road, and the same advice: if a genuinely adult environment is the reason you are booking, confirm the number in writing before paying. We will not print one we cannot source.

What else is unpublished

No room count, no restaurant count, and no exclusions list. The 24-hour all-inclusive model is stated; where its edges fall is not.

The comparison that matters here

Riu Montego Bay sits on the same 2.7 km corridor, also adults-only, generally a tier below. Same transfer, different fit-out — which makes it the single most useful comparison on this coast.