EXCELLENT experience and stay. Friendly people, clean room, great experience. Biggest beef: the toilet seat lid didn't want to stay up on its own.
More context/detail:
Late 40s/early 50s couple. We enjoy the local experience. Give us a local hotel within range of food stuff to do and we're good. The Airport Beach Hotel was like gold in that respect:
LOCATION
- Close to the airport so we were able to maximize our time on vacation. The hotel is literally a couple hundred yards from the runway, but the airport noise at night was not disruptive at all.
- On a third mile(ish) strip where locals go to hang and play music until late. The sides of the street are packed with cars and "tent bars" (a canopy with a folding table with beer & liquor for sale on it), and there are two small beaches.
- Less than a mile to the Hip Strip (look it up) and Doctor's Cave Beach - easy, safe walking, or grab a short Uber.
FOOD
- A local restaurant right across the yard from our room that served THE BEST Jamaican food. Brown stew chicken, saltfish & beans, breadfruit, red snapper, boiled dumplings, fried dumplings, yams, plantains - I could go on and on. It's a place locals come to eat, even though it's somewhat out of the way, if that's any indication. One hundred out of 5 stars.
- Next door to another restaurant that's open late, so if you want some Scotch Bonnet wings or a Red Stripe or some Jerk Chicken at night you can get them when other restaurants are closed. Epic bartenders.