Hilton Rose Hall Resort & Spa (from US$148 pp) is a 489-room, seven-floor property that boasts sleek South Beach design. Food is excellent, with indoor and outdoor seating in buffet and à la carte formats, and a seaside bar and grill by the Olympic-size pool in front of the hotel.

Pepper’s Jerk Centre (10am-10pm Mon.-Sat., US$5-6) serves jerk chicken, pork, fish, and lobster with sides like festival, bammy, and rice as well as a rotation of Jamaican favorites like baked, curried, and brown stew chicken, curry goat, oxtail, and roast fish.

Jerk Island (entrance to Rois Lagoon, Green Side, Falmouth,11am-4pm Sat.-Sun. and days when cruise ships are in port) serves jerk chicken and pork accompanied by festival, fries, rice-and-peas, along with rum ribs and jerk burgers.

The oldest Spanish Bridge on the island can still be seen at the river’s upper reaches, just above the site where Chukka Caribbean’s River Tubing Safari begins. Several river parks and gardens dot the banks. To get to the White River Valley, turn right at the first stoplight heading east from Ocho Rios along the A3, just after the second gas station.