Villa Jewel Resort is very fortunate to have a mineral water swimming pool. A shallow entry pool that has crystal clear healthy mineral water and overlooks the sparkling Caribbean Sea. No chemicals are used in the pool! The water is changed regularly and refilled with fresh clear mineral water. This water is smooth and silky … Continue reading
Fast forward through the many months of hard work at Villa Jewel Resort. After many loads of materials, many hours of manual labour and money eating construction stuff; we now have a building with walls and a roof. Yippee! It still needs windows, doors, floors, tile, kitchen equipment, bar shelves, paint, furniture, a swimming pool and … Continue reading
When you open up a Resort, do you number your rooms or do you name them? Villa Jewel Resort is a boutique resort that has 8 guest rooms. 6 rooms on the upper level and 2 rooms on the lower level. The rooms are numbered and named. Numbered for convenience and named because each room … Continue reading
Let’s take a break from construction. I thought it would be fun to let you know about some of the special packages we offer here at Villa Jewel Resort. We are a new boutique resort in Jamaica located in a small fishing village and overlooking the sparkling Caribbean Sea. Our goal is to give … Continue reading
When you are building a house, doesn’t it seem like it always takes too long to finish? I mean finished completely – walk in ready – turn key – no construction today folks – all done! Try building a resort in a foreign country on your own and you will probably go through a whole … Continue reading
We returned to Jamaica in December 2014. Ralston was true to his word, he had one room ready for us. One beautiful room surrounded by construction chaos. One completely finished room fully furnished, tastefully decorated, with working bathroom, hot water in the shower and air conditioning. A huge WOW factor. It looked unnatural in the … Continue reading
There comes a time during construction when you get a disgruntled employee and you have to deal with him. This happened during our major construction phase. This time Wabba came to our rescue. Construction of the resort was cruising right along. The trench for the foundation was dug and construction had started. The … Continue reading
We hired the wrong Construction Consultant / Bandulu! Here’s what happens when you hire someone who isn’t as honest as they present themselves. This person I will call the crooked construction consultant – ‘Bandulu’. Hiring a so called shady construction contractor is something we all have to watch out for and they are not confined … Continue reading
Once we blessed the property, drank and ate until the wee hours of the morning, it was time to start the fencing and rock walls. More men were hired to manually dig the trench for the fences and rock wall. This was all done by hand, with shovels and pick axes. It was very hard … Continue reading
What’s in a name? How do you choose a name for an all-inclusive resort? Any idea how we named our boutique resort in Jamaica – Villa Jewel on the Rocks? I pretty much said it in an earlier post – its our Diamond in the Rough – our Jewel. Let’s backtrack a bit here. Once we had … Continue reading