I need to chime in on this one. We normally leave on Sunday. Flight time is usually around 3pm. We always check bags and fly Delta. I think we flew Southwest once. We have never left Negril before 12 noon. A couple times we left Negril at 12:30 pm. I don't think it has ever even taken 45 minutes from curb to terminal. We always say we're too early. We always have to sit and wait to board. Never had an issue in at least 10 trips.

Driver always says based on our flight time, we need to leave Negril at 11:30am. We always say how about noon (and we are usually running late) when he arrives.

We tried Club Money departure once but it's really not our thing. In fact, we've gotten to the airport with friends who had CM departure and we beat them through security.

Not recommending this for everyone but we stay until the very last minute that we possibly can.