The grounds of the hotel are beautiful, and the location is great - near to Island Village and an easy walk to town. The hotel itself is very quiet, with the exception of the music from Ocean's 11, so it's not a spot for people that want an early night to bed. The main downfall of the hotel is that everything is hard! The beds were hard, the couches were hard, and the beach chairs were hard - The beach is a bit of a walk from the hotel, as you have to walk down to the main gate to enter. On the beach, chairs are available from the hotel, but they are in much need of replacement - they were missing slats and half broken.

The condo itself was of decent size and clean, the staff was friendly - it's a great price for the convenience of having a full kitchen, LR and bedroom, but not the fanciest of accomodations. The restaurant was very good - we ate breakfast and dinner there once each - the fish for dinner was the biggest fish I had all week - it easily could have fed two!

To begin, despite some of the horror stories about Fisherman's Point, we (my friend Sharon and I ), had a great time. The area was great and you could see all the cruise ships coming and going every day. With margarittaville just up the street and Oceans 11 party/kerioki bar right across the street there was no lack of entertainment. All the shops and beech within 5 mins walking distance made for great fun. The local ppl were fun and polite. We lucked out and got a nice room but, I must say that the resort itself is not really a resort its more like privately owned condos. The units all have individual owners and some are rented out by the month to locals. We never had any problems and we didn't mind the music at night either coming from Marga's or Oceans 11.
The only thing I can think of to complain about is that the time between when the cruise boats leave and the nightlife begins is very boring there is not much to do till about 11pm. The streets are almost bare no ppl not seen many locals during that time frame, and the other is that at Fisherman's Point they have nothing going on there..there is a beautiful bar and restaurant round back and a pool side bar that is never open. You can tell they dont upkeep the poolside bar as all the stools were in need of some serious repair(seat material torn and batting all coming out). As I have been to Jamaica several times now ( in mobay) this was my first trip to Ocho Rios and to tell you the truth I like the independent living much better than the all inclusive packages. You get a fridge,stove oven,microwave,toaster and coffeemaker in your own kitchen so you can cook what you want when you want and with a general supermarket and market square on the main street makes it very convenient . Also there is a burgerking and a kfc just up the main street if you fell your missing home a little and the prices are really good too.and if you want to pay big bucks u can use the resort restaurant..I found they charged a lot for local cuisine but to each their own.
The housekeeping staff were polite and very helpfull we had no probs there they will even wash your clothes for you for a small fee about 350$JA/load or u can use the laundromat yourself.
All in all our apartment we not bad for a 1 bedroom and when we looked out the bedroom window we could clearly see the beach/peer and Oceans 11 bar and of the small balconey we had a great view of the resort centre and pool.
We were there for 2 weeks and had a wonderful time.

I stay in unit 39 it was very nice the owner gave excellent advise before arrive to Jamaica. The unit was very clean and the help was wonderful. The location was excellent .

I recently visited the Fisherman's Point Resort from Dec. 27-Jan 1, 2008 and stayed in unit 37. I booked the condo directly from the owner from another website. Prior to booking, I wish I would have taken the advice of other visitors. In my group it was a total of 4 people and we got all five nights for $750.00. To be honest with you, it was a waste of money.

I will be honest and let you know that the whole entire trip was not a waste and inspite of the hotel, we had a blast. It was four women between the ages of 25-31.

Things we liked:
1. Location. It is located in a great area. You are right on the beach. From the balcony you can see the marina where all the private and commercial boats are parked. You can also see the cruise ships when they come in.

Because you are on the sea, you get a strong wind from the sea. You are in walking distance to all the shops and only a skip, hop, and a jump away from Margaritaville. You are in very close proximity to all the shopping, and all of the restaurants. You will not beat the location.

Thats about it for the things that I liked.

Dislikes:

1. The condo was filthy and old. This condo is privately owned and the owner has not put any work into the property. The kitchen is old and rundown. We did have the opportunity to peek our heads inside of another condo and they had tiled backsplashes etc. Not unit 37.

The bathroom was filthy and it had lots of mold and mildew throughout the bathroom.

The bedroom has very old bed coverings and when I pulled the covers back, my bed had a small blood stain inside of it.

The owner kept all of the cleaning supplies locked up in a closet and if you bring sand in from the beach; you will not be able to get it up.

The cable only worked half of the time that we were there and the phone did not work at all.

Please take my advise and spend the extra money to stay somewhere nice like the Sunset Jamaica Grande located a few blocks down. Rooms on the Beach was nicer than this place!