The Caves Negril

The Hotel

The Caves sits on Negril's western Caribbean cliff face — the dramatic limestone-and-coral cliff that runs the western edge of Negril's seven-mile coastline, where the Caribbean Sea meets vertical-cliff topography rather than the sand-beach configuration of the rest of Jamaica's western coast. The property is Chris Blackwell's Island Outpost adults-only Negril flagship — Blackwell acquired the original cliff-side property in the 1990s and opened the 12-cottage adults-only luxury hotel in 1995 as the considered Negril alternative to the Negril Beach all-inclusive cluster (the larger Negril resort segment is structurally all-inclusive scale; The Caves is structurally adults-only boutique-luxury). The Caves has held continuous Blackwell family ownership and operation for 30 years.

The 12 keys are individually free-standing cottages distributed across the cliff-edge property. Categories are uniform-quality but individually-decorated — every cottage is approximately 50-90 sqm, no two hold identical decor, and each is curated by the Island Outpost team with hand-loomed Jamaican textile commissions, custom-made Jamaican-hardwood furniture, and the deliberate decision to preserve the cliff-cottage character with each cottage perched on its individual cliff outcrop. The named Lover's Leap Cottage (the property's milestone unit, 90 sqm) is the largest configuration with private outdoor sala on the highest cliff outcrop and direct sunset-Caribbean-cliff sightline.

Operationally The Caves runs the smallest-Negril luxury scale at the adults-only-cliff register. The Caves Restaurant — the property's contemporary-Jamaican fine-dining venue inside the central main building — runs an organic-farm-and-Caribbean-fishery register; The Caves Bar runs the property's signature evening register, with the cliff-side cocktail-and-rum programming that has held a position on Caribbean-luxury most-considered bar lists for two decades. The property's structural daily-routine asset is the cliff-staircase that runs from each cottage down to the property's private cave-and-snorkel beach — the only luxury Jamaican property with structural private-cave access, with snorkel-and-cliff-jumping (the property's signature Lover's Leap diving cliff) as the daily activity programme.

What gives The Caves the considered Jamaica position is the cliff-side cottage register at the adults-only Negril context. The Caves is the only luxury hotel on Negril's western cliff face (the rest of the Negril cluster is on the seven-mile sand beach further north); the 12-cottage adults-only footprint is by some distance the smallest top-tier Negril luxury option; the Blackwell Island-Outpost-curated literary-and-music-industry guest register continues from Strawberry Hill into The Caves; and the Lover's Leap diving cliff is structurally the most-photographed Jamaican adults-only-couple setup. For a Jamaica adults-only honeymoon, an anniversary trip that wants the cliff-and-cottage register over the larger Jamaica beach-resort cluster, or a multi-night Jamaica stay that pairs The Caves with Strawberry Hill or GoldenEye, The Caves is the most-considered choice.

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