Feel One Love under the stars in sweet Queen bed Suite with views, Wifi, air conditioning., kitchenette, cable TV, jacuzzi & shower (hot water). Free coffee/tea/toast. Feel the culture in a safe, friendly neighborhood with low-cost taxis, market, take-out food, and ice cream just a short block away. 10+ minute taxi drive to shopping, dining, dancing, beaches, and culture. Your hosts live below for questions, guidance, low-price transport/tours. Topaz Dream Palace has 3 more suites, sleeping 16.
The space
Free coffee/tea and toast. More information below the menu (listed first)
Topaz Dream Palace Jamaican Homestyle Sample Menu
Prepared by Chef Jah B with TLC (tender, loving, care)
By advance request. Ital meals available as well.
Healthy coconut oil is used for fried foods and when oil is called for in other heated dishes. Our spring water is hand delivered from the mountain, and tap water is filtered. Items subject to availability (in season).
Morning
Gratis: High Mountain coffee, or tea (i.e., ginger, mint, green tea, nutritious sour-sop leaves from our yard, or garlic), toast, butter and jam (guava, coconut-pineapple, mango, orange marmalade, strawberry) or ‘home grown’ mountain honey.
J$200: In juice glass: mango carrot, guava pineapple, orange, lime in coconut water.
J$600 or US$5.00 choice of:
A. Green or fruit smoothie with selection of following: kale/callaloo, pak choi (bok choy), lettuce, mango, pineapple, banana, paupau (papaya), melon, chia, hemp, ginger.
B. Callaloo/cabbage, fried plantain, and dumplings or festival (breadfruit in season).
C. Fresh fruit banana, paupau, pineapple, watermelon, cantaloupe, mango
D. Ackee and saltfish (national breakfast), yam, green banana, festival sweet bread
E. Pancakes/butter/syrup, scrambled eggs (with tomato, onion, green pepper), and turkey sausage.
Mid-day or Evening
J$700 or US$6.00: Green Smoothie (above) or Tossed Fresh Salad: selection of dark green lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, green pepper, carrot, tomato, onion, almonds, sunflower seeds, chia seeds, pumpkin seeds, dried cranberries, (avocado, in season), and dressing.
J$900/US$8.00: Soup: pumpkin, chicken. J$1,100/US$10.00: Fish Tea.
J$1,200 or US$10: Chicken: curried, brown-stewed, fried, or jerk.
J$1,400 or US$12: Fish: Red Snapper: steamed, fried, brown-stewed, Trout Steak: fried, brown-stewed; Beef: ox-tail, brown-stewed.
Entries served with: Rice and peas (red beans) or stewed peas (red beans); or yam (renter, yellow), dasheen (taro or coco), and/or pumpkin; callaloo, cooked cabbage and/or tossed fresh salad.
Guest access
You can enjoy the views and breezes on your floor, the roof deck. The two suites, one on each floor below have separate entrances but can be joined together for larger groups. All are welcome to the 2nd-floor veranda (and roof deck).
Grocery store and take-out food is a block down the street. We have meal service/cooking lessons, health coaching, transport, tours, local culture/stories, music; roof deck with great views and breezes; we’re near the airport, bus station, 'Hip Strip,' for shopping, dancing, beaches.
1st fl. Kalonji Suite: sleeps 6: 1 double + one singe (Jamaican Apple/magenta), private bath; 2 doubles (Wood of Life/blue wth yellow), adjacent bath; living room/dining room/kitchen, with cable TV, veranda
2nd fl. Tallawah Suite: sleeps 6: 1 queen (Dr. Bird/green), private bath; 1 queen (Blue Mahoe/coral red), adjacent bath; 1 double (Purple Haze) shares Blue Mahoe bathroom; living room/dining room/kitchen; with cable tv, veranda with hammock, EZ recliner chair, tables/chairs, plants.
Plus 'Mango Island' apartment, sleeps 3: queen bedroom, full bathroom, kitchen, dining area in living room (with double bed), veranda. Cable TV.
Accommodates: 13 (plus apt 3)
Our guest home is built on top of Mount Salem, so there’s always a cool breeze and views from our roof deck and verandas, overlooking Montego Bay, the sea, and mountains. Reggae music is usually wafting through the air from the nearby corner of indoor markets, takeout food, and other local neighborhood services. It’s just a short drive from the airport, the “hip strip” for dancing, shopping, and beaches, the straw market for local crafts, carvings and clothing, the experience of downtown and suburban health food store, pharmacies, bookstores, and large supermarkets. P.S. Kalonji - healthy, healing, energizing Tallawah – strong, sturdy, fearless.
You can enjoy the living room, kitchen, and verandas on your floor. The two suites, one on each floor have separate entrances but can be joined together for larger groups. All are welcome to the roof deck and verandas. Grocery store and take-out food is a block down the street.
Interaction with guests
We enjoy interacting with our guests, and are also fine with giving you your own separate space . . . whatever you desire. We are here to help you have the best vacation possible. We’ve had a number of guests who all gave us excellent reviews before we listed. Jah B (Toney) is an excellent chef for meals and juices prepared with fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, fish and chicken from the nearby farmers’ market. If you wish, he’ll guide you through the market, and provide cooking lessons. He’s a great ‘selector’ of CD love songs, soul and reggae music.
Cheri, a certified health education coach, enjoys sharing her miracle recovery from cancer using natural healing methods. She is also the editor of FunTimes celebrating the African and Caribbean Diaspora.
We both love to introduce our guests to welcoming family and friends, the beautiful beaches and countryside, cultural history, folktales, and the variety of attractions.
Montego Bay is the second largest city in Jamaica and preferred destination for most tourists. It's an hour from Negril, two to Ocho Rios. We'll pick you up and take you back to the airport. Cheri met Toney in 1994 when she came to Jamaica to find a guest house she had ‘dreamed’ she was to have in retirement. Instead, she met Toney; they instantly fell in love and were married in 1996, raising two sons in Philadelphia. A while ago, the time was right for Toney, with a contractor friend and family expertise, to build our guest-house. The name combines our November birthstones—topaz, plus my dream, plus it looks like a palace, doesn’t it! Be ready to be treated like the Queens and Kings you are!
Other things to note
MoBay Sumfest is mid-July (a week of all-night reggae artists); Emancipation Day Aug 1; Independence Day Aug 6; much more. The Maroon Festival high in the Mountains (celebrates the peace treaty that successful runaway enslaved Africans signed with British in 1739), Jan. 6; Rebel Salute (a two all-night reggae stage show around Jan 16 nearer Ocho Rios; the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival in January, TBA in Ocho Rios; Bob Marley celebrations (Feb. 1-6 mostly in Kingston), Climb Dunns River Falls, and go to the Little Dunns River falls too, go zip-lining and bobsledding at Mystic Mountain, swim with the dolphins at Dolphins Cove, drive through Fern Gully and Bamboo Avenue near Treasure Beach, express ahhh as you visit with the artists at Rasnatango Gardens and Gallery, feed hummingbirds close-up, experience cliff jumping at the famous Rick's Cafe, go rafting on the Martha Brae, and snorkeling with Captain Poly's glass bottom boat, add 10 years to your life by swimming in the rare sparkling Luminous Lagoon, tour the Green Grotto Cave, go horseback riding in the mountains and along the ocean, bike ride through the Blue Mountains, enjoy the 7-levels of YS Falls, tour the Appleton Rum Estate and factory, dine in the Houseboat Grill, Pier 1 and the Pelican Grill, dance at Margaritaville, Pier 1, Clock Tower, Jazzy Blue Beat and The Jungle, hang out at Mackie's, Powers, the Brewery, and Rehab Sports Bars, and go to services in the St. James Anglican church, built in 1775.
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