There’s a resort in Coral Spring, just outside Montego Bay, that doesn’t let anyone under 18 through the door. That alone tells you what kind of trip this is. Add a 24-hour all-inclusive plan, a beach with actual turquoise water instead of the brochure kind, and a weekly dinner show that changes its theme every time, and you’ve got a week that doesn’t feel like the version of Jamaica everyone else is doing.

Here’s the exact trip.

Flights from New York are direct on JetBlue right now, $677 round trip, JFK to Montego Bay. Nine fifty-nine in the morning to one fifteen in the afternoon, four hours and sixteen minutes, no layover eating your day. Prices on this route move fast, so check Skyscanner and lock it in.

The hotel: Ocean Eden Bay, from $357 a night

Ocean Eden Bay sits right on the sand in Coral Spring, thirty minutes from the airport and close enough to Falmouth that you can spend an afternoon walking its Georgian old town if you want a break from the pool. Guests here also get full run of the resort next door, Ocean Coral Spring, so you’re never actually short on restaurants.

The Marlin Beach restaurant does a jerk chicken that tastes like someone’s grandmother has been running the kitchen for thirty years, not a hotel buffet approximation. The Senses Dinner Show is worth booking in advance. And Despacio Spa has a jacuzzi, steam bath, and treatments on site if you want a facial before your flight home. Stay three nights or more and the airport transfer is free.

Rooms start at $357 a night. Five nights comes to $1,785, plus the $677 flight puts the whole trip at $2,462 solo, or split the room with someone and you’re each in for about $1,570 total.

How to book it

Step 1: Pull up Skyscanner, search JFK to Montego Bay, September 8-13. Direct on JetBlue at $677 is the one to book.

Step 2: Book Ocean Eden Bay directly through H10 Hotels. Check for the H10 Rewards discount or an H10ESCAPE-style promo code at checkout before you confirm. Ask for a Junior Suite Ocean View if you want the balcony to actually earn its keep.

Step 3: That’s it. The resort handles the rest. You will not need a rental car.

Flight plus five nights, adults only, under $1,600 if you split the room. Jamaica in September looks better than whatever you were about to spend that on instead.