Does The Caves Hotel have a restaurant/bar open to the public?

[Monty&Melo]

Have to agree with a lot of posts here, maybe I'm a simpleton or maybe I don't have the kind of money that has spoiled me like some do, but a day at Catcha, followed by a night at Ivans is pretty much the greatest thing I have ever done in my life and it maybe cost me $300 total. If it can get better than that I can't imagine it and I sure as hell don't want to pay for it. Catcha is a bargain compared to anything like this. If I won the lottery, I wouldn't go to the Caves, I would just go to Catcha....a lot more often!!!!

M&M

[suzengrace]

hey Gerry .my friend and I did a hotel inspection of the place for her travel agency...They were very proper and nice -showed us a few of the rentals, showed us where they have the caves dinnner and then we had a very nice lunch there ...not sure if open to general public...The service was top-notch,best i've ever exp.in Jam-but over-all i found it not worth the price tag..dont get me wrong, i'd stay there in heart beat but not for what they ask a night..reminded me of citronella or catch falling star (when they had fewer properties )...but a few notches up on the quality ladder....

[Accompong]

Have to agree with a lot of posts here, maybe I'm a simpleton or maybe I don't have the kind of money that has spoiled me like some do, but a day at Catcha, followed by a night at Ivans is pretty much the greatest thing I have ever done in my life and it maybe cost me $300 total. If it can get better than that I can't imagine it and I sure as hell don't want to pay for it. Catcha is a bargain compared to anything like this. If I won the lottery, I wouldn't go to the Caves, I would just go to Catcha....a lot more often!!!!

M&M

Nice post. Made me think a likkle bit about when I talk to people and tell them I live in Jamaica. A lot of them (who went there, of course) do what I call "reply to impress". What I mean by that is saying they stayed at Sandals, Hedo, The Caves, etc. with an expectation of impressing me on how classy they travel.

When I say that I live in deep in the Cockpits and that it cost me about $3500 - $4000 to live there for about half a year (including my airfare), they are usually quite confused as that was about what they spent on a week or two.

I was an Economics Major and I explain the "value" of your money in what is called "utils" (stands for Utilization Value). In other words, if you spend a dollar and get a dollar's worth of value then you get "one util", if you get more, you get 1.(whatever) and less you get .(whatever) etc.

What is hard to evaluate are the intangibles like "peace of mind", etc. so staying at say Catcha would probably be a higher value than staying at The Caves based on money spent for the value received because "peace of mind" is a constant so that once you get it, you don't need to spend any more to achieve it.

My conclusion is that it doesn't take a pile of money to get a good value for your buck. Regardless of where you stay and how long you stay, if you achieve "peace of mind" then you had a good vacation.

Just an observation.

Peace and Guidance

[saeyedoc]

You definitely don't stay at The Caves looking for value. What I've found in our two stays there is that it's like staying at a rich person's home with all their staff, very un hotel like.
I've stayed in a few really high end properties and what I've found is you get past the kiss butt service and end up with something more casual, but extremely competent.
Anything you want for breakfast, great service, good food. Accommodations are rustic chic, not marble everywhere, but cool furnishings, nice little touches. Bar is just left open when the staff leave for the night.
It's all about the vibe.
That said, I'd rather spend my time in the Owner's Villa at Nirvana, just more of a beach person.

[Seveen]

So for example, you might think a new Lambourghini Diablo would cost $250,000, but in Bill Gates dollars that's 31 cents.

That fully loaded, multimedia active matrix 233 MHZ laptop with the 1024x768 screen you've been drooling after? Half a penny.

A nice home in a rich town like Palo Alto, California? Two dollars. That nice mansion he's building? A more reasonable $63 to him.

You might spend $50 on tickets, food and parking to take your date to see an NHL hockey game. Bill, on the other hand could buy the team for 50 Bill-bills.

You might buy a plane ticket on a Boeing 747 for $1200 at full-fare coach. In Bill-bills, Mr. Gates could buy six 747s (Not tickets, the planes themselves). Two for him, two for Melinda and two for young Jennifer Katherine.