The Palmyra Resort & Spa picked as choice for ‘Another country'.

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The Guardian
ANOTHER COUNTRY
Palmyra Resort, Jamaica. Apartments from £232,000. Pure international, 020-7331 4500.
Where? On 16 acres of beachfront in Montego Bay
Getting there it's 15 minutes from Montego Bay airport, which is served daily from Heathrow by Air Jamaica (flying time: nine hours).
What? A neo-colonial fantasy built on an old plantation that hopes to re-launch Jamaica.
Indulgence is compulsory: three golf courses, three pools, two restaurants, a beach club and a cinema on site - to save the soul from over-spoiling, enrichment classes (of the spiritual kind) are laid on, too.