Prince Valley Guest House Part 1

Friday
May 3, 2013
Travel Day
0500

About a year ago I started noticing these pictures of a beautiful place named Prince Valley Guest House. Located in St Andrew, Jamaica in the Blue Mountains.
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http://www.princevalleyguesthouse.com/index.html

Adding to the pictures a Facebook friend and a subscriber to my Blog would comment and I would come in and comment behind her or vice versa,  with me also posting or sharing the pictures on Facebook. We actually formed a sort of Buddyship with promises of possibly meeting there.

Also Alisia and I take an annual Birthday and Mother's day Adventure and unbeknown to me she was also loving the pictures and one day asked me about the House and what I knew about it, I told her I had a good vibe regarding it and  was planning to go, at which time she informed me that she was ready to get out of Negril and try something different. I'm in shock!!! Lisa wants to rough it, wants to leave her Sea view from her bed at which ever place we stay on the 7 mile Beach or Cliffs  of Negril and replace it for the Majestic views from the pictures we had seen? In a place with very little public transportation, actually living in a Guest House somewhat dependent on the kindness of Strangers in a community we had never been to before. I immediately went to work researching the area, checking air fares and checking both Knutsford Express   http://www.knutsfordexpress.com/  which goes the North Coast Route, Negril to   Mobay with a stop in  Ocho Rios through Fern Gully http://www.ochoriostour.com/fern-gully.htm

As well as the South Coast Express which travels Negril to Sav La Mar to Santa Cruz   Mandeville to Kingston.   http://www.timeinjamaica.com/south_coast_express_jamaica

Next I get the OK from Alisia to Book it. I contact Prince Valley via email  immediately and woke up the next morning with a tentative reservation from Jackie the Wife of Robert, the Owners of Prince Valley. Needless to say I had also been asking every question that Alisia or I had on Facebook and she was quickly getting back with answers. I was impressed with her quick replies as well as her professionalism while making me feel a Homeyness that you don't get from chains. One of the many things I love about staying at Mom and Pop or Family Owned businesses. You form a sort of relationship before you get to your destination.

I next get a call that Alisia had booked her Air and was ready for our Adventure. Robert offers Round Trip Airport Transfers from Kingston so all of that was booked, we choose our spot for our Negril part of the trip and started shopping and packing.

I decided on Knutsford Express but had to get a ride over to Mobay because they don't travel out of Negril until 11 am and her flight was getting into Kingston at 1:30 pm. I used  Clives Transport http://www.clivestransportservicejamaica.com/contact&reservations_1.htm Cost for Clives 3500 JMD / $35.00 US.. cost for Knutsford Express 2000 JMD or $20.00 US

She flew  into Kingston on May 3, Robert picked me up from the Knutsford's  Kingston Yard we hugged like old friends and off we went to pick up my Girl.

Travel from Negril.  Ochi   Kingston to  Norman Manley Airport

Hanover

Sangster Airport, MoBay

Priory, St Ann

Ocho Rios

Kingston

Norman Manley Airport

I find and give Thanks for all of the beauty Jamaica has to offer.

Prince Valley Guest House Part 2

Friday
May 3, 2013
We're Here !!!!

We grab Lisa and we're off .  Prince Valley serves a Continental Breakfast of Blue Mountain Coffee, Spice Bun and whichever  seasonal fruit grown on the property is available we had some of the sweetest  juiciest grapefruit. They will prepare any meals you wish or  you can stop on the way in and gather supplies for meals or walk or get a ride to one of the two Restaurants in the Mountain. I decided we should stop in Papine and grab some fish for dinner that Robert would prepare, we got a pretty good deal and headed to a shop for drinks and snacks. I had decided it would be nice to get some pampering and be as relaxed as the environment called for.

The rain started while we shopped. Shopping done,  we head Up Up in the sometimes hard rain  into the Mountains going through towns named Irish Town, Red Light,, past New Castle where the Military Training camp is, past Strawberry Hill and  on to Middleton, and  at the end of this Rural road is the Guest House .

The first thing I noticed before Giving  Thanks and Praise for the Magical  place I'm in  is how the pictures I've seen  don't do  this place Justice, this is a place of Hopes and Dreams, of Hard Working people in a small town that time forgot filled with hard working Families, surrounded by Beauty as far as the eye can see with not a sight of the Caribbean Sea, which we both Adore,  with the same effect of Thanksgiving. Magnificent.  We met Jackie and Reasoned  and Fellow shipped for a while and after she left to help Robert prepare our dinner we dried off and freshened up and got caught up on things that mothers and daughter talk about every day but now face to face after 7 months of absence. It's always so great to hang with my Baby. Besides the Joy of herself, she brings me stuff.


We enjoyed the  natural sounds of the mountains, along with the melody of the rain, it rained for a while that first night as as well  as the next afternoon. Lisa bought the much needed  Rain to the Blue Mountains. When I asked  how long Jackie and Robert both said no rain for weeks till that day. Hooray nice to be of assistance. I love rain in Jamaica and this was the ultimate of Sights and Sounds and Freshness, I felt the sweetness of Life in the Mountains. I've stayed in the Blue Mountains before but there  was something so right about being here at this time.

They bought dinner to our apartment because it was still raining so no meal under the stars this night.  Dinner  turned out to be Brown Stew  Fish (snapper) rice and peas and steamed veggies. Suffice it to say it was delicious add,  the ambiance and I have to say it was a Perfect Introduction to Prince Valley Guest House as well as the Blue Mountains and all that it had to offer.

We smiled all evening. As we listened to Natures Music srrounding us.  My Test for wether I will love a place be it a day, a week or a lifetime is wether I can sleep in it. I don't even remember dosing off.