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...fashionable Montego Bay on Jamaica's north coast, summer rates for a single room without meals run as low as $6 to $10 a day. For a trifle more the tourist can move into Sam Lord's Castle, a modernized, 133-year-old manse on the southeast coast of Barbados. Winter rate for a single room including meals: $20 to $40 a day. Summer rate: $15 to $25. Last April, Cancel Bay Plantation in the Virgin Islands began offering a special package for honeymooners: champagne on arrival, free gifts, nine days and eight nights of beachfront living...
...range of resorts is strung along the 135-mile-long northern coastline. To the west, some eight miles from the Montego Bay airport, is famed Round Hill-less of a jet-set fairground than it was five years ago, but still a cosmopolitan cluster of airy shareholder houses around a crescent bathing cove that is carefully combed for spiky sea urchins and other subterranean surprises. If their owners are away, visitors may be able to rent the Henry Tiarkses' capacious "cottage" (British Press Lord Esmond Rothermere is currently in residence), or the William Paleys' swimming-pooled pavilion (where...
...Montego Bay area has also other kinds of sport: fishing off the White House, golf at Tryall, a clublike community like Round Hill; tennis at the Racquet Club, and eating at Sunset Lodge...
Before spry old Busta went off to Montego Bay, where he drank champagne, danced the twist and played the banjo at an all-night post-independence bash, he made it clear that Jamaica will remain in the orbit of the free world. "We are pro-American," he said staunchly. But he ducked questions about possible trade and diplomatic relations with Cuba, only 90 miles to the north. Perhaps he had in mind an old Jamaican proverb: "No cuss alligator' long mout' till you cross riber...
Bullshot & Zebra Skins. The biggest center of cooperative seclusion is Jamaica's north shore, which has half a dozen new subdivisions where the clink of cocktail glasses is heard from morning bullshot to evening brandy. At the Tryall estates, west of Montego Bay. an American couple who figure in the international set, Arthur W. Little Jr. and his wife Harriet, last year built a $200,000 home that features a patio made of 100-year-old bricks. Peter Arno nudes in the master bathroom, and zebra skins from an African safari...