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It was built by the Government of Jamaica at a cost of $10 million. [2] It occupies 22 acres (89,000 m 2) at the northern end of Negril beach and has 280 rooms in two-story buildings. A 50% interest in the hotel was bought by the SuperClubs in 1989, [3] a resort company owned by John Issa & his family, for $12.25 million. [4]
Gordon “Butch” Stewart (1941-2021) was the businessperson who founded and owned Beaches Resorts. Adam Stewart (1981-), the son of Gordon “Butch” Stewart, is the Executive Chairman of Sandals Resorts International (SRI).
The property was the first resort built on Jamaica’s undeveloped north coast. Issa came from a prominent Arab family who had arrived to Jamaica from Jerusalem in 1893. The family’s first hotel venture was the purchase of Myrtle Bank a hotel in Kingston, Jamaica’s capital city, with the United Fruit Company. They broke British colonial ...
One bay east of Maracas (about a 10–15-minute drive), Las Cuevas Beach is ideally situated for those wishing to double their beach pleasure by combining visits to both in one trip.
The water level surrounding the island steadily rises by 2 millimeters each year. [10] Although Mayaro Bay was formed by the "erosion of unconsolidated sediments", [6] the increased erosion over the years has begun to eat away at the shoreline. Tall, tropical coconut trees envelop a beachfront, pink and blue rental house (4/13/2016)
In 1981 Gordon "Butch" Stewart purchased an old hotel (the Bay Roc Hotel) on one of Montego Bay's largest beaches, despite having no hotel experience and opened it as Sandals Montego Bay. [7] In 1984, Sandals launched the Caribbean's first swim-up bar at its Montego Bay Resort in Jamaica. [8]