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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
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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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What is there

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.

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    Ocean 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 Bay
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · $6–9
  • Kingston → Runaway Bay
    77 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · $8–11
  • Santiago → Runaway Bay
    7937 km · quickest by air, 18h 38m · CLP$624,890–968,580
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