GoldenEye

"Ian Fleming wrote all 13 James Bond novels at GoldenEye, his property in Jamaica. The resort now offers various accommodation options, including the original Fleming Villa and beach huts. Guests can engage in watersports or simply relax by the pool." - Travel + Leisure Editors

"Far from the tourist hustle and bustle of the northwestern coast, Jamaica’s smartest and arguably most famous address is located on the northeastern coastline of Oracabessa—a small town jewel of about 5,000 people, with a thriving community of creatives. Writer Ian Fleming became so enamored with Oracabessa while on assignment with the British Navy during World War II, that he returned to buy a property, building GoldenEye , where he would go on to write all thirteen James Bond novels during his winter stays. In 1976, Bob Marley became the owner, later selling it to Chris Blackwell—founder of Island Records—who expanded the property to include a range of private huts, cottages, and villas dotted around the tropical 40-acre grounds. The tropical beachside hideaway is home to four restaurants and bars, including the laidback bamboo bar which served Jamaican Jerk BBQ right on the sandy Low Cay beachfront." - Ruth C. White

"GoldenEye in Jamaica was Ian Fleming’s estate and sources nearly everything you eat at the resort from Pantrepant, the 800-acre organic farm that also supplies Strawberry Hill, and the Caves." - Sophie Friedman

"Goldeneye, to be clear, is not an easy place to leave.The land—the former home of Ian Fleming, where he wrote each of the 14 James Bond thrillers that would cement his place in literary and cinematic history—sits next to the tiny town ofOracabessa, on the northern coast. A warm, blue-green lagoon curls from the ocean around a small island and then lets out into a bay. You can look one direction and see a jungle, then turn around and see pristine white sand. Blackwell bought the property in 1976 as a vacation home and a space to entertain family and friends but later he decided to transform it. In 2016,Goldeneyedebuted a jumble of new huts, arranged around a smallcove, a short walk from Fleming’s house and the resort’s original villas. The huts vary in height, designed to capture cooling breezes and allow guests to forgo air conditioning. And, crucially, they’re much cheaper to book than the Villas. Which is key because, up until this point, if you wanted to plan a visit to Goldeneye, you needed to either know Blackwell personally or have the excess capital to shell out potentially five figures on a vacation. (Part of the resort’s enduring gravitational pull is that many of the celebrity guests check both boxes.) With the beach huts, Blackwell has expanded, once again, the ambition of his famous resort. By Afar Magazine"

"Goldeneye, to be clear, is not an easy place to leave.The land—the former home of Ian Fleming, where he wrote each of the 14 James Bond thrillers that would cement his place in literary and cinematic history—sits next to the tiny town ofOracabessa, on the northern coast. A warm, blue-green lagoon curls from the ocean around a small island and then lets out into a bay. You can look one direction and see a jungle, then turn around and see pristine white sand. Blackwell bought the property in 1976 as a vacation home and a space to entertain family and friends but later he decided to transform it. In 2016,Goldeneyedebuted a jumble of new huts, arranged around a smallcove, a short walk from Fleming’s house and the resort’s original villas. The huts vary in height, designed to capture cooling breezes and allow guests to forgo air conditioning. And, crucially, they’re much cheaper to book than the Villas. Which is key because, up until this point, if you wanted to plan a visit to Goldeneye, you needed to either know Blackwell personally or have the excess capital to shell out potentially five figures on a vacation. (Part of the resort’s enduring gravitational pull is that many of the celebrity guests check both boxes.) With the beach huts, Blackwell has expanded, once again, the ambition of his famous resort. By Afar Magazine"