Category: Getting To Jamaica

  • 4 Safety Tips For Traveling With Young Children

      If you are planning a family holiday, here are a few safety tips to consider before you fly.   Car Seat, Harness or Belt?   Familiarise yourself with your airline’s rules regarding child safety restraints before you go. If your child will have their own seat, but is still very young, many airlines won’t…

  • Nine Nights, Five Beds – The First 24 Hours

    A long time ago I had an idea that it would be hilarious to produce a TV show based on this blog.  But it wouldn’t have just been about Jamaica travel, it would have been about dragging along foreigners who are less familiar with Jamaica, to see if they could enjoy doing it how I…

  • Could This be the Ultimate Link Up?

    I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve never, in 14+ years of traveling to Jamaica, participated in a group trip.  Although I’ve desperately wanted to organize official Jamaica My Way link-ups many times over the eight years this blog has existed, I just don’t have the mental organization in my brain to put it…

  • Shipping a Vehicle to Jamaica

    Have you ever wondered how you could bring your own vehicle to Jamaica?  How much does it cost?  What’s the first step?  What are the different shipping methods?  This is a sponsored post from a professional auto transport service who knows exactly how to answer your questions.   How to ship a vehicle to Jamaica:…

  • My First Kidnapping in Jamaica

    Not because I like to blog in the chronological order that things happen but this whole kidnapping story all happened within my first 24 hours on the island last month.  It’s an awesome story and it’s the first significant thing that happened last trip.  I feel like I swooped in at the right time and…

  • Or You Could do Jamaica the TTR Way

    FINALLY….a Jamaican tour company after my own heart. A while back I posted in my Facebook fan group that I wish a Jamaican tour company….ANY Jamaican tour company….would WOW me with something different. When you look at the majority of tour websites they all have the same thing: Dunns River Falls, Rick’s Cafe, Appleton Rum…

  • Flipswaps. What?

    My FIRST Travel Product Review! I’m officially introducing all the ladies to the most packable, fashionable, million-looks-in-one piece of travel gear ever!  I don’t know if Kristen Randolph intended these to be a travel accessory but if not, I just turned them into one.  Why?  Because as soon as I saw them I thought of…

  • New To Jamaica?

    Yes, that’s me on the left in the photo. If you can see the small date on the picture it says March 17, 2003 and that was taken at Sangster airport when we first landed. I knew nothing about the country I just entered and had no idea it would change my life and career…

  • Chronicles of a Shipwreck in Jamaica

    The book is released! Less than a week ago I published the compilation of my entire Jamaica story starting from my discovery to my obsession to my move and what happened with it all. This blog post is a recap of how the book came together and why. In July of 2010 I wrote three…

  • Jamaica Eve

    Reader Submission by Tina K. This term – Jamaica Eve – I can not take credit for….I saw it on a chat board (thanks Sweetness) and immediately, before even opening the thread, knew what it was about and that I was going to like it.  At the time it was close to Christmas so along…