New villa resort opens in MoBay
A NEW villa resort has opened in Montego Bay, and the proprietors are offering a wide variety of facilities, features and attractions. Dunn’s Villa and Resort in the hills of Rose Hall, 12 miles east of downtown Montego Bay, is owned by returning Jamaicans, Howard and Gloria Dunn both of whom live between Montego Bay and New York, a release from the husband and wife team states.
The resort is set on four acres of hilltop terrain overlooking the Caribbean, and consists of eleven air-conditioned rooms. Other features include satellite television, sun roof deck, Jacuzzi and swimming pool, and a poolside bar and grill. The proprietors also offer a private beach and golf nearby.
Exact cost of the multi-million dollar venture was not disclosed in the news release, but the statement says the company has launched a major public relations, sales and marketing blitz across Canada, the United States and Europe, to profile the property. “We are going after the middle and upper-middle income bracket clientele and to this end we have targeted a broad spectrum of the destination market place to approach “The statement quotes Mr. Dunn as saying. Mr. Dunn added “Already, some major tour operators, travel agents and wholesalers on both sides of the Atlantic have been showing very keen interest in our property. They are pleased at what we have to offer!”
Mr. Dunn announced that he would shortly be undertaking a personal sales and marketing tour of several European countries, for meetings with top international travel industry executives. This is be followed by trips to international travel shows, in the fall and winter, Mr. Dunn disclose
Rose Hall
Because Dunn’s Villa and Resort is sited on the fabled Rose Hall property, the Dunns are zeroing in on the allure and fame of the legend of Annie Palmer, aka The White Witch of Rose Hall to help push their property. Annie Palmer and Rose Hall have been among the most legendary of names in Jamaica, down through the years – as popular today as they were over a century ago, when sugar was king and the white plantocracy
ruled supreme.
According to legend, Annie Palmer was the most notorious and nefarious of all the owners of the vast, 6,000 acre Rose Hall property, during the last century. She was a devil woman who murdered three or four husbands, they say - before she herself was done in one night as she lay in bed with a particularly handsome slave on whom she had been forcing her libidinous and lascivious love.
At least, that’s the story – and the owners of the new villa resort property have concocted a special ‘witch’s brew’ and have their very own ‘White Witch Hideaway’ poolside pub and grill. The new resort offers tours of the surrounding are of Rose Hall and the adjacent Palmyra estate, to such places as:
- The old country church at Mount Zion District, where it is said slaves from Annie Palmer’s plantation carried bricks from as far away as eight miles, to build the temple;
- The vacation villa doorstep of American country music king Johnny Cash and;
- The backdrop for many of the scences from the James Bond thriller, ‘live and Let Die’ starring Roger Moore in his first Bond outing in 1972/1973.
Dunn’s Villa and Resort will be officially opened shortly, on a date to be announced soon, Mr. Dunn said.
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