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Amenities The rooms are designed to enhance your natural Jamaican experience while providing all the comforts of a boutique hotel. Rockhouse has twenty-eight air-conditioned rooms all with private balcony or terrace with lounging furniture. Ten villas, twelve studios and six standard rooms are built from timber, stone and thatch and designed to exist in harmony with the jungle like garden and volcanic rock land. The mosquito net draped four post queen size bed with bed side tables, desk/dresser with stool, and two seated table with chairs for in-room dining, are featured in all rooms. This is a new furniture line specifically designed for Rockhouse and built from dressed and polished local timbers. Amenities include a room safe, a fully stocked mini bar, telephones with overseas direct dialing, two luggage racks, overhead fan, and oscillating stand fan. The pressurized water system with master tank storage, and power provision from the back-up generators ensure continuous services. Environmentally conscious, solar hot water is heated through out the property, with local hot water tank backup for those very rare cloudy days, or unusually high consumption.
The villas are all individual, cliff top, thatch roofed cottages situated directly over the water. They feature spacious, wrap around, private terraces and sliding glass doors providing great vistas of Pristine Cove. All have queen size beds, with five of the the villas having lofts. The loft villas, in addition to the queen bed downstairs, have a double bed and a twin bed upstairs and can occupy up to four people. All the villas have CD players and private, enclosed, outdoor showers open to the skies.
The studios rooms are more traditional style hotel rooms, being grouped together, with each having a balcony that provides water views. They also have private, enclosed, outdoor showers. All studio rooms are double rooms with queen size beds and accommodate two people. They have all the standard Rockhouse room features outlined above.
The standard rooms are similar to the studio rooms but have balcony's that provide garden views. They are also grouped together and are double rooms with queen size beds. They can be set up to accommodate three or four people by adding a twin or bunk bed. They also have all the standard Rockhouse room features outlined above.
"You’ll feel you’re in Jamaica when you go to bed in a mosquito-draped four-poster or take a shower in the open air (the toilet facilities are inside). The rooms have mini-bars, air conditioning, ceiling fans, refrigerators and phones." Frommer’s Caribbean
"You’re side by side with nature at this stylish resort on Negril’s cliffs. Accomm's are built from timber, thatch and stone and are filled with furniture that echoes the nature theme. All rooms have private, indoor baths; villa rooms have private enclosed, outdoor showers." Fodor’s Caribbean
"The Australian management team completely renovated the existing cottages. New digs are in octagonal, air-conditioned, thatched-roof cottages of wood and stone with wraparound terraces and enclosed outdoor showers. Pencil post beds are draped with mosquito netting." Fielding's Caribbean.
Activities The sixty-foot, freshwater, horizon, swimming pool is carved into the cliff's edge. The pool features a 20-yard lap swimming beat (borrow some goggles from the pool bar), and a huge one-foot deep step for lounging on. You may think it is a salt-water pool after taking a dip because the occasional wave from the ocean breaks over the edge into the fresh water giving it a salty feeling. Floating mattresses allow you to relax and take in the sun while partly submerged in the water.
Snorkeling and swimming are among the major active pastimes (Yoga has also recently been added) at the Rockhouse. In addition to the swimming pool, ladders and stairs lead down into Pristine Cove. Here, crystal clear, snorkel perfect water provides a great environment for open water swimming, and fantastic views of the coral and sea life. Observe clusters of dwarf tube sponges, small coral heads and a variety of colorful reef fish.
The hotel offers Water Sports rentals from the pool bar with snorkeling gear, sea kayaks and sea rays (glass windowed floating boards) available. Two glass bottom boat operators, Famous Vincent and Errol, cruise by the hotel each morning usually between 9am and 10am offering boat trips along the cliffs, down to Negril town or beach, and out to the main reef. Close by in Negril other activities such as tennis, golf, gymnasium, scuba diving, boat rental, sailing, windsurfing, parasailing, water skiing, horseback riding, night clubs, bands, entertainment, tours etc. can be arranged through the front desk.
"Rockhouse underwent a total makeover last year……The pool, carved into the rocks above the sea, is stunning." Travel & Leisure "This Side of Paradise".
"Excellent swimming, snorkeling, or just floating around on a rubber raft (topless is ok) in the rocky cove below can be found at the Rockhouse. The whole property is built amid jungly gardens and dramatic cliffs fronting the sea. Guests sunbathe on rocky ledges on the cliffs with ladders leading down to the water for idyllic swimming." US Vogue, "High Season at the Right Price".
"Stone pathways cut through the rocky foreshore lead to a stunning swimming pool perched on the water's edge; the pure blue planes of sea, sky and pool are emphasized by the minimalist geometry of the surrounding buildings…There is no beach here; the clear, aquamarine waters which swoosh in and out of the rock coves and headlands are reached via stone steps, iron ladders, rock platforms and diving boards. It's a great place for jumping in or cliff top diving. The beach (with its noisy jet skis and hustlers) has become superfluous." Daily Telegraph, Travel Section.
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