Blue Harbour Hotel, 6 Sewell Avenue, Red Hills. 27 rooms. View of the sea, swimming pool, restaurant. Small Hotel with three floors partially surrounded by gardens, at site of old Spanish Fort overlooking Montego Bay. The hotel is behind City Studios. Not sure which building.
- The hotel was built in 1967.
- In 1971 the hotel was advertising a partially furnished restaurant and bar.
- In 1976 the owner was Mr. Robert T. Garth, the U.S. Consul-Agent to Jamaica, and his wife.
- In 1979 the hotel housed the American Consulate in Montego Bay. The restaurant was the Khus Khus Room, and you could only pay with US dollars.
- The hotel was renovated in 1986.
- In July 1990 the hotel had a fire. See clipping.
- In July 1998, Claire Garth the proprietor, reported the hotel had no cash flow and was operating at 20% capacity. She explained that the difficulties started over five years ago, when there was a massive devaluation of the Jamaican dollar and people with bank loans of thousands of dollars suddenly found themselves owing millions.
- Last Gleaner mention is in 2006.
- Last archive.org visit was February 2007, but the site had a robots.txt file that prohibited indexing or saving. The blueharbourhotel.com domain is available.
- Now closed.