Runaway Bay
Runaway Bay is a town in Saint Ann Parish on the northern coast of Jamaica and is considered one of the most naturally beautiful places on the island.

Runaway Bay is a town in Saint Ann Parish on the northern coast of Jamaica and is considered one of the most naturally beautiful places on the island. It is a notable tourist destination located 16 km (9.9 mi) west of Ocho Rios, and slightly east of Discovery Bay, where Christopher Columbus landed in 1494. Ocean View Beach is a private beach situated at Runaway Bay. It consists of a series of hotel resort complexes and beaches.
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Worth seeing in and around Runaway Bay
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Ocean View Beach
Ocean View Beach is a private beach located in Runaway Bay in St Ann, Jamaica. It offers a good standard of facilities and swimming, for a fee.
800 m · beach in St Ann, Jamaica · Wikipedia
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Getting to Runaway Bay
- Airports
- Sangster (MBJ), 61 km · Norman Manley (KIN), 83 km · Antonio Maceo (SCU), 230 km
- Montego Bay → Runaway Bay62 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · $6–9
- Kingston → Runaway Bay77 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · $8–11
- Santiago → Runaway Bay7937 km · quickest by air, 18h 38m · CLP$624,890–968,580
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No local-transport research exists yet for Runaway Bay
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Runaway Bay. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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