Port Antonio travel guide

Once the major banana port, where many of the island’s first tourists arrived on banana boats, Port Antonio dates back to the 16th century. Its prosperity has for many years been in gentle decline and it is now run-down, but it has an atmosphere unlike any other town in Jamaica, with some superb old public buildings. It is an excellent base from which to explore inland or along the coast. Boston Bay, Fairy Hill Beach (also known as Winnefred Beach), San San Beach, the Blue Lagoon (also known as the Blue Hole) and Frenchman’s Cove Beach are notable beauty spots to the east of the town. Boston Bay is renowned for its local jerk food pits; several unnamed places by the roadside serve hot spicy chicken, pork or fish, chopped up and wrapped in paper, cooked on planks over a pit of hot coals, very good and tasty.