Great Huts

[gregandkelly63]

When you get a chance please tell me more about flying from Port Antonio. Didn't realize there was an airstrip nearby. We will be paying a lot for our usual driver to transfer us back and forth from MBJ to PA

[Odinson]

When you get a chance please tell me more about flying from Port Antonio. Didn't realize there was an airstrip nearby. We will be paying a lot for our usual driver to transfer us back and forth from MBJ to PA

It was totally a splurge trip, 30th wedding anniversary. We flew TimAir from MBJ to the really small airstrip in Port Antonio (Ken Jones Aerodrome) on a dual prop plane. Pilot, co-pilot and a flight attendant (not attendanting our flight, just sat in the teeny jump seat in the back of the plane). Driver from GeeJam picked us up for the 15 min drive. Flew from Ken Jones to the Negril Aerodrome on a single prop, us, pilot and co-pilot. Then our regular driver picked us up and took us to Catcha.

Both flights were amazing. Jamaica is a really beautiful island and you really get a feel for that flying the length of the island. The rolling lush green hills of Falmouth are burned forever in my memory. So many trees and shades of green! Flew over the Blue Mountains (a little choppy) and the morass then he buzzed us over the length of Negril and landed. Regular driver took us back to MoBay.

TimAir works out of the MBJ departure terminal at the opposite end from security. No waiting area but we did get some Stripes. It was pretty expensive and even more so now I hear. Back when the road to Negril was barely a road, the flight was much more reasonable, probably because they flew more routinely.

There is another flight service out of MBJ besides TimAir, Rob put links to their sites on the Negril page. Treasure Beach has an aerodrome too. We drove through the John Crows in a hella storm over the partial road to get there - flying would have been great for that trip.

Also wonder if there are fast boat water taxis? Might be a decent business out of MBJ to other parts of JA and a neat perspective from the water.

[gregandkelly63]

Sounds awesome!

[njone]

How'd your trip end up?

[gregandkelly63]

How'd your trip end up?

Disappointing. Great Huts is in decline. I wonder how it had 4.8 out of 5 on trip advisor. I left a review with photos of the deterioration of the resort.

[madcam94]

[QUOTE=gregandkelly63;225746]Disappointing. Great Huts is in decline. I wonder how it had 4.8 out of 5 on trip advisor. I left a review with photos of the deterioration of the resort.

How was the trip aside from Great Huts? Is this a must do as in go and spend the vacation there or is it a few days and back to Negril type thing? We go in December to Negril and someone told us to check out the E. Side of the island (a local). Trying to gauge if I should snag up some economy rooms for a night or two.

TIA

[Rob]

And please remember TripAdvisor tries to give accurate advice for every vacation place on the planet.

Negril.com only gives accurate, on the the ground information from Negril and Jamaica.

We don't pretend to be experts on the planet Earth.