- Address
- Half Moon PO
- Chain
- WV
- Opened
- 1954 (renovated 2009)
About Half Moon
In 1954 a group of wealthy individuals including Donald Deskey designer of Radio City Music Hall Harvey Firestone Jr. of The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Richard Reynolds of the Reynolds Metal Company and Jamaican Bauxite Company oil and real estate entrepreneur Curtis Steuart and Mrs. Laurence Armour of U.S. meat packaging giant Armour Packing Company chose to build an exclusive vacation resort on a perfectly shaped crescent beach that they aptly named Half Moon. That same year Half Moon Golf Tennis and Beach Club officially opened with seventeen whitewashed cottages overlooking Half Moon Bay and 30 beachfront homes. As it still does the Resort attracted many luminaries of the day including Joan Crawford and her husband Alfred Steel CEO of Pepsi-Cola Clark Gable and HRH Princess Margaret. Other notable guests include HRH Queen Elizabeth II Prince Philip and HRH the Prince of Wales John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy Prince Rainer of Monaco and George H. W. Bush when he was Vice President. Although the cottages were passed down from generation to generation three descendants of the original investors Curtis Steuart Bill Weiss Sr. and Howard Pearce have shaped the property into what it is today the Caribbeans most complete resort. Over the years Half Moon has undergone several renovations and additions most recently the multi-million dollar demolition and rebuilding of its 50-year-old beachfront rooms. Today Half Moon stretches across 400 lushly landscaped acres with 33 stately three- to seven-bedroom villas each with its own personal staff and pool 152 luxurious suites and 46 breathtaking rooms. Eleven of the original cottages remain today a tribute to the legacy of the founders whose descendants remain as resort shareholders. Half Moon features a championship 72-par Robert Trent Jones Sr. golf course 18-hole putting green 13-lit tennis courts a full range of water sports an exclusive natural Dolphin Lagoon six gourmet restaurants and over half a dozen informal snac
A colonial-style Caribbean oasis Half Moon set on 400 lush tropical acres and bordered by twin crescent shaped beaches. The resort is located in the luxury enclave Rose Hall just 15 minutes from Montego-Bays Sangster International Airport.