Things to Do
Pushcart Restaurant + Rumbar
Pushcart is the Jamaican home-style kitchen reinvented. The restaurant serves traditional Jamaican fare from classic jerked chicken, pork and fish and peppered shrimp to curried goat and oxtail. Accompaniments include bammy, fried plantain, festival and rice and peas. The bar serves up great local beverages and the Caribbean’s finest rums.
Rockhouse Restaurant
Celebrated as Negril’s premiere fine-dining destination, take a seat and look out over the volcanic cliffs on to the brilliant Caribbean Sea. It won’t take long to discover why it’s called the “Pristine Cove.”
Serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner, the Rockhouse restaurant was designed to blend seamlessly into the tropical environment. Grab a cup of Blue Mountain coffee and quietly watch the birds in the morning or grab your partner and join us for a romantic candlelit dinner. A welcoming and serene atmosphere awaits any time of day.
Open daily from 7am with last seating for dinner at 8pm.
Juici Patties
Located in Traits Plaza, Juici Patties has been stapled as a local and tourist favorite. The menu features patties, vegetable loaves, soup and cakes.
Margaritaville
Sparkling sugar sand, crystalline warm waters, and sunsets unlike anything you’ve ever seen are only a few of the attraction Negril has to offer. Experience private cabanas for lounging beachside, a rustic Tiki Beach Bar serving up endless island-inspired refreshments, and open-air dining with a menu so delightful, the fish won’t be the only ones biting.
Kool Vybes Bar & Jerk Centre
Kool Vybes Bar & Jerk Centre has an extensive island menu to please any palette! Jerk chicken and pork, curry and grilled lobster, curry, grilled and pepper shrimp, curry and brown stew chicken, curry goat and steam fish! For the veggie lovers, steam vegetables. All served with Jamaican traditional rice and peas or bread.
Appleton Estate Rum Tour
Take a guided tour of Appleton Estate, where the finest rums in the world have been crafted since 1749. This excursion gives you access to the history of Appleton Rum by showing you how it was made centuries ago and how it’s distilled in the modern era. You can even sample a few varieties of this iconic spirit.
Ricks Cafe
Longtime bar/eatery offering Caribbean grub & cocktails, plus a pool & cliffside jumping spots.
YS Falls
YS Falls opened in 1992. It is a nature-based attraction offering the opportunity to experience the beauty of the waterfalls surrounded by lush gardens and magnificent trees.
There are seven waterfalls, several which cascade into natural pools. Some areas are fairly rocky and do not allow swimming.
Lifeguards on site, indicate which areas are for swimming, however, being able to swim is a requirement. There is a natural pool, fed by underground and above ground springs, which is more suitable for children and others unable to swim.
More recent additions to the attractions at YS Falls, include exhilarating canopy rides, which glide from the top of the falls to its base. These adventures are accompanied by experienced guides to take care of you along the way.
Martha Brae River Rafting
Rafting on the Martha Brae, the island’s #1 rafting attraction is located approximately 10 minutes from the town of Falmouth.
Your adventure begins at “Rafter’s Village”, which sits on a natural horseshoe island featuring a fully appointed recreational facility with a bar and souvenir shops. Before embarking on the tour, guests can visit “Miss Martha’s Herb Garden”, a presentation of Jamaica’s herbs renowned for their medicinal and healing properties.
Established in 1970, Rafting on the Martha Brae boasts a complement of eighty-five licensed and experienced raft captains. Guests board 30-foot bamboo rafts under the supervision of a licensed dispatcher. The raft ride lasting approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes is operated over a three-mile stretch of the beautiful Martha Brae river. As you glide down the river, learn about “The Legend of the Martha Brae” and even try your hand at poling the raft.
Lovers Leap
The beauty spot known as Lovers' Leap emerges where the Santa Cruz mountains come to an abrupt end at Jamaica's south coast, exposing a 1,700ft vertical drop down to the waves crashing on Cutlass Bay below. The lookout provides a fantastic vantage point to look for miles out to the Caribbean Sea. Along the coast the view stretches as far as Rocky Point (Clarendon) to the East and to Treasure Beach in the West. You will be reminded of how high you are standing when you notice birds, clouds and light aircraft flying below you!
Blue Hole Mineral Spring
The Blue Hole is about a half hour away from Negril, Jamaica. Just as the name suggests, it is literally a hole in the earth’s surface. Upon peering inside, you discover that it is also a portal into paradise with sparkling turquoise water below. Those brave enough take a deep breath and jump twenty-two feet into the spring. For those who would prefer otherwise, you are welcome to take the ladder in and out of the deep grotto.
Luminous Lagoon
Cruise the famous Luminous Lagoon at night for an experience like no other. The lagoon is home to millions of microorganisms that emit a flash of light when touched; a rare phenomenon that occurs only four places worldwide, the Luminous Lagoon is said to be the largest and brightest, fascinating scientists and travelers. Take a dip and watch the water glow around you, hear the intriguing story of these colorful waters while enjoying a glass of rum punch.