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  Montego Bay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name "Montego Bay" is believed to have originated as a corruption of the Spanish word manteca ("lard"), allegedly because during the Spanish period it was the port where lard, leather, and beef were exported.
In 1980, Montego Bay was proclaimed a city by act of parliament, but this has not meant that it has acquired any form of autonomy as it continues to be an integral part of St. James parish.
The coastland near Montego Bay is occupied by numerous tourist resorts, some newly built, some occupying the grounds of old sugar cane plantations with some of the original buildings and mill-works still standing.
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 Pictures & photos of Montego Bay, Jamaica
Montego Bay's primary attractions are its golf courses, historic great houses and the beautiful private hotel and beach resorts outside the town.
Montego Bay is Jamaica's second city and has been a tourist Mecca since the 20s when early visitors sought out the healing waters of Doctor's Cave Beach.
At most upscale hotels in Montego Bay you are invited to dine even though you are a non guest so you have the chose of staying in a hotel that match your budget yet enjoy the experiences of a upmarket resort many of which to be found to the East of Montego Bay.
www.seejamaicacheaply.com /montego_bay_jamaica.html   (1108 words)

  
 Montego Bay: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Thumbthe entrance of sangster airport.sangster international airport is an airport in montego bay, it is the second biggest airport in jamaica, behind norman...
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"Montego Bay"'s name is believed to have originated in a corruption of the Spanish[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] word "manteca" (butter or lard).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/montego_bay.htm   (748 words)

  
 The Town of Montego Bay, Jamaica
Montego Bay was a sugar and banana town but the sugar factories have closed down and bananas are now shipped out from Kingston and Port Antonio so the picturesque sight of women carrying bananas on their heads and singing the TallyMan song while carrying out their back-breaking work, is a thing of the past.
Montego Bay's original claim to resort fame was the fabulous Doctor's Cave Beach which attracted celebrities and socialites from all over the world.
To the east of Montego Bay lies the sleepy town of Falmouth, the capital of the parish of Trelawny.
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 CLIA - Cruise Line International Association
The bay became known as Manteca Bay, (Manteca is Spanish for lard) and eventually, Montego Bay.
Montego Bay is the second largest city in Jamaica, trailing only Kingston, but it may be the king of tourist destinations.
Situated on the northwest side of the island, Montego Bay is the usual entryway for airline and cruise passengers from the United States to enter Jamaica.
www.cruising.org /planyourcruise/wwdest/overview.cfm?recordID=28   (390 words)

  
 Montego Bay Jamaica
Most travelers arrive in Jamaica through Montego Bay which is the home of the North Shore airport and the islands busiest cruise pier.
Jamaica's second largest city, Montego Bay is located on the North West corner of the island.
Montego Bay was once a busy port from where the Spanish would ship the hogs they butchered in the mountains.
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 Jamaica - Montego Bay
Montego Bay is the king of Jamaican tourism.
Montego Bay and Ocho Rios are Jamaica’s north-coast pleasure capitals, tropical magnets for sun seekers year round from Europe and North America.
Montego Bay is not just famous for appearing in numerous Beach Boys’ tunes, but for its amazing beaches and resorts.
www.kasbah.com /highlights/jamaica_montego_bay.htm   (525 words)

  
 Montego Bay Vacations: Montego Bay stays, hotel accommodations, pictures, and location info ...
Montego Bay, the second largest city in Jamaica, is a thriving tourist destination, with the highest hotel density on the island.
Breezes Montego Bay is located on Doctor's Cave Beach, the beach that made Jamaica famous.
The Hotel is ideally located on Montego Bay's tourist "Hip Strip" directly in front of the world famous Doctors Cave Beach and surrounded by a number of ethnic restaurants, bars, discotheques, shopping and many other activities.
www.beachdestinations.com /Montego_Bay_Vacations.aspx   (625 words)

  
 Montego bay Jamaica Tourism
Montego Bay is one of the most famous tourist spots in the world.
The area around Montego Bay is full of beautiful sights and attractions, from beaches to plantations to rum distilleries.
A trip to Montego Bay is not complete without winding your way through the majestic peaks of the Blue Mountains.
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 My son, Pepsi, Montego Bay - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
Despite the fact that I have been fllisted from all Montego Bay society and will perhaps only visit again under pseudonym and large hat and dark glasses, I have to say I was impressed with recent improvements in our second city.
Montego Bay is a prime tourist destination, and tourism is our business.
The city of Montego Bay still is the epitome of anarchy; the squatter settlements are an aesthetic and ecological nightmare, and a definitively Jamaican style is still lacking.
www.jamaicaobserver.com /columns/html/20040128T210000-0500_55016_OBS_MY_SON__PEPSI__MONTEGO_BAY.asp   (901 words)

  
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Montego Bay offers exceptional beaches, alluring mountains, and variety of attractions.
The Half Moon Montego Bay is one of the Caribbean's most beautiful resorts.
The Hotel is ideally located on Montego Bay's tourist "Hip Strip" directly in front of the world famous Doctors Cave Beach and surrounded by a number of ethnic restaurants, bars, discotheques, shopping, watersports and many other activities.
www.deltavacations.com /destination.aspx?code=MONTEGOBAY   (812 words)

  
 Montego Bay Jamaica Hotels ... Jake.com
Montego Bay, JM Blue Harbour is a small, first-class hotel located on a historical hillside, overlooking the bay.
Montego Bay, JM This is the Caribbean's first great resort and is still its finest.
Montego Bay, JM This Fine Hotel is Situated Between Walter Fletcher Beach and the Famous Doctors Cave Beach.
hotels.jake.com /int/jm/montego-bay-hotels.html   (254 words)

  
 Discover Jamaica - Highlight on Montego Bay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Montego Bay defies description: posh resort, package tour playground, market town, commercial centre, seaport, slum, second city, capital of the west - its disparate elements co-exist without blending.
It is sometimes referred to as "the Republic" a nickname dating back to the last century when independent local landowners criticized the government for neglecting the western parishes.
That situation still exists and true Montegonians, born in the bay and known as "Bawn a bays" sometimes still threaten, only half in jest, to secede from the rest of the island.
www.discoverjamaica.com /gleaner/discover/mobay.html   (135 words)

  
 About the City - Montego Bay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As early as 1908, the Montego Bay Citizens Association were advertising the charms of the town with an invitation to: Come South.
Montego Bay has the greatest concentration of tourist accommodation on the island and offers a wide variety.
Montego Bay restaurateurs complain that the all-inclusive syndrome is wrecking their business - but restaurants continue to proliferate.
www.discoverjamaica.com /gleaner/discover/tour_ja/tour_c.htm   (2791 words)

  
 Montego Bay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Dining at Montego Bay is a little like doing the limbo while most folks are dancing the Tarantella, but I bet you won't be able to resist once the steel band starts playing.
When you walk into Montego Bay, lazily circling fans nudge the AC down as the bar beckons the heat-stricken crawling in like in a mirage cartoon.
Denese Carpenter, who co-owns Montego Bay with her husband, Douglas, grew up in England, but she travels often to Jamaica, where her mother lives.
www.providencephoenix.com /archive/food/97/08/14/MONTEGO_BAY.html   (661 words)

  
 Montego Bay
On Jamaica's northwest coast, Montego Bay is the essence of the complete resort where flowering trees, velvety meadows and palm-covered hills edge a turquoise sea and bleached white beaches.
Home to the annual Reggae Sumfest festival in August, Montego Bay is the heart of the "Jamaican Riviera", with more guest rooms than any other part of the island, from five-star hotels and sprawling all-inclusive resorts to charming inns, guesthouses and some of the most luxurious private villas in the Caribbean.
Or you can venture further afield: From Montego Bay, excursions depart for almost every place on the island--including the uncharted limestone hills of Cockpit Country, where the fabled Maroons (descendents of slaves who escaped from the Spanish) still live in the town of Accompong.
www.goawaytravel.com /html/montego_bay.html   (1319 words)

  
 Montego Bay on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
One of the most popular resorts in the Caribbean with highly developed tourism facilities, Montego Bay is also a port and commercial center.
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 Sandals Montego Bay
Sandals Montego Bay is where Sandals began, so it makes a perfect beginning for those who want the ultimate escape.
Upbeat and lively, Sandals Montego Bay sets the trend for excitement, romance and the famous service that keeps guests coming back year after year.
Guests at Sandals Montego Bay can do it all or opt to do nothing at all, because their accommodations will always be their private oasis within this romantic paradise.
www.hotels.vc /jamaica/montego+bay/216286.php   (265 words)

  
 Montego Bay, Jamaica
Then two and a half hours later, when the plane door swings open, Mo' Bay is all in place for us again: the soft, moist air, the central spine of the Blue Mountains in the distance, the oleander and hibiscus and the fanciful dialect we can't eavesdrop on.
Montego Bay is the largest of the resort cities on the rugged north coast of this formerly British island.
Negril, a lovely beach resort town east of Montego Bay, Dunn's River Falls, where you ascend the falls themselves, or Martha Brae River rafting (809-952-0889) are popular day trips between one hour and a half and two hours away.
www.sallys-place.com /travel/n_america/m_montegobay.htm   (1247 words)

  
 Montego Bay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Montego Bay Rattan Sofa: Find great furniture at prices you'll love: Furniture Shoppers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Montego Bay Full Frame Sofa is constructed of a combination of rattan and lampacanay rope in antique finish.
Description: The Montego Bay Full Frame Queen Sleeper Sofa is constructed of a combination of rattan and lampacanay rope in antique finish.
Description: The Montego Bay Full Frame Loveseat is constructed of a combination of rattan and lampacanay rope.
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 Montego Bay Jamaica, Montego Bay Jamaica information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Montego Bay, Jamaica: Where I under booked, over packed and was overexposed.
Montego Bay, city in northwestern Jamaica, administrative center of Saint James Parish, Cornwall County, on Montego Bay at the mouth of the Montego River, on...
Montego Bay Onestop is your official Jamaica resorts booking representative for the best,most varied,unique resorts,rentals,condos,apartments,cottages,guest houses in Montego Bay Jamaica...
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 Montego Bay
Montego Bay contains Jamaica 's largest airport, Sangster International Airport.
Montego Bay is second in population to Kingston with about 120,000 people and lies in St. James Parrish on the northeast coast of the island.
Air Jamaica and several American and British airlines runs their Caribbean hub in "MoBay" connecting the island with the US, England, Germany, and recently Canada with flights to Toronto.
www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Montego_Bay.html   (333 words)

  
 JAMAICA - A premier caribbean travel destination featuring the resort areas of Montego Bay, Negril, Ocho Rios, ...
Today, Montego Bay is Jamaica’s second largest city and the island’s most popular tourist region.
The centre was constructed on the site of the old Montego Bay Courthouse, which was built in the 19th century and later destroyed.
You may end your walking tour of Montego Bay at Sam Sharpe Square, but if you are feeling energetic and would like to see more, walk north from the square along Fort Street towards the “Hip Strip” and Fort Montego, which lies about.5 miles (800m) from Sam Sharpe Square.
www.visitjamaica.com /planning_your_trip/walking_tours_general.aspx?guid=MontegoBayHeritage   (924 words)

  
 All-inclusive Jamaica Resort Guide to Montego Bay Resorts
The newest All-Inclusive in Montego Bay, nestled on its own private peninsula with three different white sand beaches.There is a choice of four different restaurants, three different pools and six congenial bars.
Located in the epicenter of Montego Bays hip-strip and directly on Doctors Cave beach, this resort is perfect for those looking for the excitement of Montego Bay, the "Fun Capital".
Set along a dazzling stretch of beach on the island's north coast bordering the Caribbean Sea and surrounded by the mountains of Montego Bay in the island's historic plantation area.
www.escapetoeden.com /Jamaica/newpage8.htm   (1433 words)

  
 Sunset Beach Resort & Spa - Montego Bay, Jamaica
We expect Sunset Beach Resort to become one of our most favorite resorts for those who would like to be near the city of Montego Bay, Jamaica and with in 15 mimutes of the Airport while being able to get an all over tan.
The new owners have spent millions of dollars in refurbishing this resort, so we highly recommend that if you would like to stay in Montego Bay, Jamaica, this is now our choice property This is a resort that we can book your very large incentive groups in at a great price.
Breathtaking magic awaits you here, where the days are sun and fun-filled, beaches are white, waters are clear, the nights are glittering and everything is "irie" - a word that is sure to be a new addition to your vocabulary once you arrive home.
www.caribbean-hideaways.com /sunset_beach_resort.html   (472 words)

  
 Montego Bay Hotels Jamaica - Discount Hotels in Montego Bay, Jamaica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
1st Montego Bay Hotels is updated every day and will provide you with the most accurate information about 19 properties and hotels in Montego Bay.
Famed getaway for the rich and famous Secluded on a peninsula 8 miles west of Montego Bay, this resort serves as a retreat for the world-famous as well as the world-weary.
Surrounded by the lush, natural beauty of Montego Bay, this majestic Georgian-style great house envelops couples in warmth, rich with traditional British style and customs.
www.1stmontegobayhotels.com   (320 words)

  
 Montego Bay Travel Guide: Information on Montego Bay travel, vacation & tourism - Caribbean.com
Montego Bay, better known as MoBay, is encased in mountaintop jungles and edged in miles and miles of tropical beaches.
Browse our Montego Bay dining section to choose from the many dining and entertainment options.
Browse our Montego Bay interactive maps and see stunning panoramic views of beaches and attractions.
www.caribbean.com /jsp/destination.jsp?currentDestination=35   (328 words)

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