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Runaway Bay has a down-to-earth bar scene with a few options for late night drinks and occasional dances. Light House Lounge & Grill (11am-4am daily) hosts dances in the open- air yard every other weekend on Friday or Saturday. Inside the bar, two billiards tables and karaoke on Wednesday entertain patrons. It’s on the left when you’re heading west, just past the stoplight as you enter Runaway Bay.
Milestone Sports Bar & Grill (Salem, next door to Tru-Look, 11am-11pm Sun.-Thurs., 11am- midnight Fri.-Sat.) is on the second level of a modern built-to-purpose plaza. Openers include chicken wings, kebabs, or shrimp cocktail, while mains are pasta alfredo (US$12), chicken cordon bleu, grouper fillet, and lobster curried, grilled, or in garlic sauce (US$25). Specializing in, you guessed it, jerk chicken and pork.
A Mi Fi Tell Yuh (next door to Jewel Runaway Bay, noon-midnight daily) is an alfresco bar and grill where regulars gather in the evenings for a few drinks. Proprietor Robert Taylor can always be found on-site manning the bar or preparing steam fish with crackers. Diners require a reservation.
8 Rivaz Ultra Lounge (Sun-Thurs 5pm-2am, Fri/Sat 5pm-4am, admission free weekdays, US$5 on weekends) is a modern club with an outdoor deck / hookah lounge located on the top floor of Bheecham Plaza overlooking Main Street Ocho Rios. Ladies night on Tuesdays features free shots and specials all night, with R&B on Wednesdays and Dancehall on Thursdays. Glo Fridays has patrons dancing with glow sticks and international night on Saturdays features in-house and guest DJs spinning a mix of dancehall, reggae, hip hop and pop.
Beach j’ouvert, part of the carnival season’s festivi- ties, is held at James Bond Beach in Oracabessa in early April, where revelers whine out to soca and throw paint on each other, with after-par- ties spilling into Ocho Rios.
Amnesia (US$3–7, cash only) is Ochi's most authentic, down-market Jamaican nightclub. Thursday is Ladies' Night and gets quite busy, with a regular after-work jam and occasional deejay performances on Fridays. Muddy Mondays features mud wrestling.
Margaritaville (9 a.m.–4 a.m. on club nights Mon., Wed., and Sat. and 9 a.m.–10 p.m. on Sun., Tues., Thurs., and Fri.) is Ochi's most popular club with the tourist crowd. This is one of Jimmy Buffet's chains, and it sees a lot of debauchery--the pool party on Wednesdays attracts a large crowd. It's also a venu for Fame FM's annual road party, which takes radio disc jocks to various venues around the island over the course of several weeks.
The Runaways Sports Bar & Grill (7am-3am daily, US$9-36) is a cool local joint on top of a four-story no-frills hotel in the easternmost of Runaway Bay's little shopping plazas in Salem district . The roof has a small swimming pool, two billiards tables, and flat-screen TVs airing major sports broadcasts. The bar serves domestic beers and mixed drinks, with the kitchen serving breakfast items like ackee and saltfish and Jamaican dishes like fried chicken and steam fish. A budget hotel downstairs has no-frills accommodations with kitchenettes.
