Great resort

This is a beautiful hotel with nice rooms, service and entertainment. Everything is located right near the beach, so you can eat and look through palms at the sea. Amazing view! Our family had the best time ever at this resort: plenty activities from beach volleyball, soccer, aerobics to other fun activities at the pool and at night. The food was so wonderful and way too much! Whenever you go and whatever time you want, you can find food and eat. There was Monday beach party that you must to att [... read more]end as it was a lot of fun. The entertainment team was great and always organized something interesting for everyone. There is 1.5-2 hrs drive from the airport. We just loved this resort!

Very nice-clean resort, good beach, good food

We were 2nd time in RIO OCHO RIOS. Little bit far away form the airport 1.5 hr. drive. Driver stop for 30 min after 1 hr drive for "refreshments" that was not necesery. Tired from traveling we wanted to be at the hotel, not siting on bus and waiting for driver to get on the road. Registry: - went fast and they were very accomodating. Hotel: - room nice, big and most important clean, refrigerator stock up Food: - very good, tasty and plenty. Evebody could find what they like. We loved the sea foo [... read more]d. Beach: - very nice and long enough to have nice strol, water warm, deep, good for swimming Pool: - did no used it Entertaiment: o.k.

Very Good

We did not explore the resort thoroughly because it was raining almost everyday. Out of the 3 alacarts we dined at the scenery and food were very good. The beach was nice with many shaded spots from palm trees.

Lovely stay with few complaints

Hotel was very nice. Stayed in Deluxe Wing after changed from Adults only on Nov.1st. Only complaint about room was bed -- pushed two double beds together to make a king - was horrible...crack right in middle where beds would separate! Would rather have had one single queen or king. Nice sitting area, well maintained although looking a little worn with some broken bathroom tiles. Stayed for two weeks, and second week was crazy busy (tons of people came for a few days over the American Thanksgivi [... read more]ng holiday) so will time it to avoid this next time - challenge to get loungers. Beach was good, but couldn't walk too far either way because it was impassable. Great jerk chicken hut for lunch on beach. Fruit selection was a bit disappointing - not much fruit native to Jamaica -- no fresh pineapple, coconut, mango or papaya -- served melon, apples, grapes and sometimes kiwi. Disappointed that mandarins and pineapple were canned... Steakhouse and Japanese a la cartes very good...Mandalay not so much - just another buffet. Staff very friendly, cheerful, happy, good service. Long ride from airport. Booked ClubMobay for return home....wouldn't do it again, disappointing. Took Blue Mountain Bike Tour -- would recommend it. Other travellers who were familiar with Riu chain told us this hotel was not as good as others they stayed at. We would probably book other than Riu next time. But let's keep perspective -very minor disappointments, overall great relaxing two weeks.

Great Hotel

Most say I thought this was one of the nicest resorts I have stayed at. The staff are wonderful, the food was great and never had a problem finding chairs at the pool or beach and there were 12 adults and 3 babies in our group. My only complaint would be the elevator, it didn't seem to want to open on the 2nd floor.

Fantastic Resort

Everything at this resort was great! Clean rooms, rest rooms, dining assortment, entertainment all day and night, lots of excursions to choose from. Front desk service good. All staff friendly and helpful always! Lots of laughs for sure. The only thing that went wrong was our flight at sunwing was delayed 5 hours so did not leave hotel until 10pm at night. Had to check out at noon so wish we could have extended our room so we could rest or sleep as we did not sleep on plane ride home so pretty t [... read more]ired with no sleep. Will definitely return one day to Jamaica as our first time here,

Second Returnee

This was my second time here on a boys gateway. The food quality and variety was great. Drinks were exceptionally great and a wide variety including wray & nephew. The staff very friendly, grounds well kept. Rooms nice and well kept. Beach great and pool area was lively. Most likely to return

Great

It was a beautiful resort with lots to do for you and your kids clean and good food with lots of nice people willing to help had a great time and would love to go back I liked the 24hrs bar was one of my favorites and a casino can't beat that

Nice resort

nice resort paid for the adults only and yet the adults only pool closes at 6 pm.. REALLY? besides that it was a nice resort, rooms were clean, food was what we expected, most servers where good. thanks

Amazing trip central experience

My experience with trip central has been nothing but wonderful. When I first was looking on trip central website, I found it extremely easy to navigate and find a trip, best suited for me. When I first booked my vacation, my agent was extremely helpful and I booked my trip within that day. She kept me updated through email about excursions, deals and what information I needed. She listed all the steps for me, since it was my first vacation travelling alone. I stayed at the Riu in Jamaica (Ochos  [... read more]Riu) and the hotel was wonderful. The staff was amazing and the food was awesome. Our sunwing agent was extremely helpful and kind. Any questions we had she answered. Trip central made my first travel experience, nothing but easy and comfortable. I will be certainly booking all my trips through them.

Fantastic Resort

My boyfriend and I enjoyed our stay at the Riu Ocho Rios. We had pre booked for a standard room but we got a free upgrade to the deluxe suite. We thought that was a very kind gesture. The room was big and spacious. The living room was partially separated from the bedroom. We had a comfortable king size bed, flat screen TV with cable, a nice couch with other modernized furnitures. We also had a good view of the ocean from our room. Each room is also equipped with a complimentary mini bar that is  [... read more]restocked every 2-3 days. Furthermore, they had a variety of Jamaican and American food which was AMAZING! There is a jerk centre on the beach. Blue clear ocean, soft white sands and tall palm trees could be seen throughout the resort. The nightly entertainment was exceptional and very interactive. The only con we can think of is that the 24h internet from our suite was down for a day or two.Overall, this resort met up to our expectations. We will be back!

Awesome Resort

We had an amazing time. Resort was very nice. We found the people very nice and accommodating. Lots to do. Food was perfect. Pool staff (bartenders, life guards) were very friendly. All around great time.

Great resort, amazing food and friendly service.

This is a great resort whether you want to party or spend quality time with the family. The staff is awesome, the food and drinks were amazing and the resort is beautiful. Highly recommended, we will be visiting again.

Awesome trip

Great place to stay. Food was good and a plenty all hours of the day and night. Beer could have been colder good variety of girly drinks that were cold and slushy. Alacart was very good. Highly recommended resort. Would definitely go back.

Amazing resort !

Over all the best resort Ive been to so far. Could not ask for any better with food, cleanliness and staff. Beach and pool areas were clean and well organized with activities for all ages, Nightly enteryainment was also fantastic !

Awesome resort and friendly workers too

The resort was very clean, great selection of food. I was very impressed for my first trip. It took us a bit to get booked in because our room was not ready but all workers were awesome and caring. I would go back again.

Amazing Resort!

The resort was very clean, the grounds were kept very well. The beach was amazing, also cleaned every night. The pool was very large and had plenty of room. The food was pretty good overall. Most of the staff on the resort where very nice and always willing to help you. Now the bad stuff, the bathrooms where way to far from the pool. Durning my stay the pool was closed one full day and my son was very disappointed. Too many people the day before had urinated in the pool. So we no longer used the [... read more] pool after that, we went to the ocean. I found that some of the main bar staff EXPECTED a tip everytime you got a drink. If we did not they where very rude and disrespectfull to my family. Overall my family and I had an AMAZING TIME!!

Good resort

the bar service sucked half the time even if you where willing to tip the maid service was great went on a few outing they where not to bad the only thing I didn't like was they expected you to tip them for everything or they never came back

Nice resort

very nice , beautiful beaches , friendly staff, the trip to the town was great and our driver was very informative, the evening shows were great , the buffets were good , the private restaurant dining was alright.

Wonderful resort!

Beautiful resort and beach, very clean and well kept, great food and friendly staff. Beach was close with nice sand and clear water (no coral, rocks or seaweed). Great location for excursions close by.