Jamaica Has a New Adults-Only Champagne Beach With Moët, Daybeds and Parasols — At One of the Island’s Most Stories Hotels

Cushioned double daybeds. Red-and-white parasols planted in the sand. A champagne cart pouring Moët over ice, all afternoon long.

That’s the scene at the newest addition to Round Hill Hotel & Villas, the storied Montego Bay resort that has just unveiled an exclusive summer partnership with Maison Moët & Chandon — and it might be one of the more covetable beach options anywhere in Jamaica right now.

It’s called The Moët Private Beach, an adults-only activation that takes over the resort’s private beach and the adjacent spa lawn for the summer 2026 season, bringing the champagne house’s signature seaside experience directly to Round Hill’s guests. It anchors what the resort is billing as a full calendar of seasonal programming this summer, but it’s clearly the headliner — a collaboration between two names that have spent decades building their reputations on the same idea of understated luxury.

The concept is simple, which is part of its appeal. The activation is open Mondays through Saturdays, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and it’s reserved exclusively for guests staying at the resort. There’s no day-pass crowd, no buzzy beach club energy spilling in from outside — just Round Hill guests, the Caribbean Sea and a steady pour of champagne.

The heart of it is a custom-built Moët & Chandon champagne cart stationed right on the sand. Throughout the day, it pours three expressions: Moët & Chandon Ice Impérial, Ice Impérial Rosé and Impérial Brut, all served in branded glassware. Guests stretch out on the double daybeds beneath those signature parasols in the house’s red and white, while Round Hill’s white-uniformed staff tend to the beach — the same brand of personal, almost old-world service that has defined the resort for more than seven decades.

The whole thing is built around the Ice Impérial collection, the range Moët & Chandon created specifically to be served over ice. It’s a format that suits the setting almost perfectly: champagne poured over cubes, in the heat, at the edge of the water, designed for the unhurried rhythm of a long Caribbean beach day rather than a formal toast. For a resort that has always traded on the art of slowing down, it’s a natural fit.

“Round Hill and Moët & Chandon share a legacy built on timeless elegance and the art of celebration,” said Round Hill Director of Sales & Marketing Josy Karabolad. “Bringing The Moët Private Beach to our guests felt like a natural pairing: two houses with deep roots, united by a commitment to creating moments that feel both effortless and extraordinary.”

It helps that Round Hill has the pedigree to match its new partner. The resort opened in 1953 on a secluded peninsula on Jamaica’s northwest coast, and it spent its early decades as a kind of private clubhouse for the era’s most recognizable names. The Kennedys vacationed here. So did a long roster of Hollywood and society figures drawn to its mix of seclusion and effortless glamour. The guest rooms were later reimagined by Ralph Lauren, whose own villa sits on the property, and that sensibility — relaxed, classic, never showy — still runs through everything from the four-poster beds to the afternoon tea served daily on the grounds.

Today the resort spans a collection of ocean-view rooms and individually owned villas, many with private pools, spread across a green peninsula overlooking Montego Bay. It remains one of the most beloved luxury properties in the Caribbean, the kind of place where guests return year after year and rarely feel the need to leave the grounds. The Moët partnership simply gives them one more reason to stay put.

“Our guests have an instinct for the exceptional, and so does Moët & Chandon,” said Managing Director Josef Forstmayr. “This partnership brings two storied brands together in a setting that feels true to both. The Moët Private Beach adds a new dimension to the Round Hill experience, one that reflects the caliber of hospitality our guests have come to expect and love.”

For travelers thinking about timing a visit to the champagne beach this summer, the good news is that Round Hill is among the easier luxury resorts in the Caribbean to reach. The gateway is Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, one of the most-connected airports in the entire region, with nonstop service from a long list of cities across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. For most travelers coming from the East Coast or the South, it’s a short, direct hop — which is a big part of why Montego Bay has long been one of the most popular entry points to Jamaica.

From the airport, the resort sits about a 25-minute drive west, on its private peninsula in Hanover Parish just past the town of Hopewell. Round Hill runs its own private airport transfer service, with a greeter waiting at a dedicated desk in the arrivals hall, and the resort recommends it as the most relaxing way in. A private transfer runs $100 plus taxes round trip for up to four people, and the charge can simply be added to your room bill and settled at checkout.

Taxis and rideshare are also widely available for the same short run, and the resort offers complimentary parking for guests who’d rather rent a car for independent exploring, though its concierge team is well practiced at arranging excursions for those who’d rather not. There’s even a more dramatic option for travelers arriving from the other side of the island: a quick helicopter ride from Kingston, touching down within easy reach of the property.

However you get there, the destination this summer is the same stretch of sand — daybeds in the shade, a glass of Ice Impérial sweating in the heat, and the kind of slow, sun-soaked afternoon that has been Round Hill’s stock-in-trade for seventy years, now with a little more sparkle.

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