Bob Marley’s Jamaican hotel hideaway Strawberry Hill and tropical 47-acre property is on sale after being featured in One Love biopic
The Strawberry Hill Hotel that was frequented by Bob Marley and depicted in the 2024 film ‘Bob Marley: One Love’ is officially on the market.
The 47-acre mountaintop resort was built on a coffee plantation and belonged to a British royal family in the eighteenth century.
It was named by its reputed original owner Horace Walpore, who was the son of Prime Minister Robert Walpore, who was in office from 1721 to 1742.
Despite the hotel being on the market for an undisclosed price, travelers who are looking to spend time St. Andrew, Jamaica, can still stay at the luxury resort while on vacation, the New York Post reported.
The Strawberry Hill Hotel is currently on the market for an undisclosed price. Marley recuperated at the hotel after an attempt was made on his life on December 3, 1976
The Strawberry Hill Hotel was portrayed in the film ‘Bob Marley: One Love,’ which has made over $160 million at the box office
The hotel was named by its reputed original owner Horace Walpore, who was the son of Prime Minister Robert Walpore, who was in office from 1721 to 1742. He enjoyed the elevation of the property because it was ‘ideal for growing strawberries.’ The property also includes scenic views of the Blue Mountains and was a Foreign Officers’ Navel Hospital in the late eighteenth century
The property was owned by prominent families like the Cargills and the DaCostas before it was eventually bought by its current owner and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell in the 1970s before Marley was shot
According to the hotel’s website, Horace discovered that ‘the property’s elevation was ideal for growing strawberries.’
It became a Foreign Officers’ Navel Hospital in the late eighteenth century and was later owned by prominent families such as the Cargills and the DaCostas.
The property was eventually purchased by its current owner and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell in the 1970s and became the location that Marley recuperated at after he was almost murdered on December 3, 1976.
‘I used to come here for Sunday tea with my mother when I was a little boy, and I’ve always had a sentimental feeling about this place,’ Blackwell told The Guardian back in 2000.
Jamaican architect Ann Hodges was hired by Blackwell after he started planning to develop the estate.
She used vernacular pitched roofs, decorative designs on wood and large roof overhands in her designs.
Today, the property has 13 all-white cottages and the potential to fit 16 more villas.
Jamaican architect Ann Hodges later designed the hotel to have vernacular pitched roofs, decorative designs on wood and large roof overhands
There are currently 13 all-white cottages on the resort. Each of them were modeled after Jamaican chattel houses, which are small and moveable wooden houses that are built without nails. The furniture is different in all of the cottages, but the all-white interiors were designed to provide ‘a contemporary feel to the neo-colonial, romantic style of the furniture’
There are currently five different room options at the Strawberry Hill Hotel: the studio suite, the studio cottage, the one-bedroom villa, the two-bedroom cottage and the two-bedroom villa
The amount of cottages the hotel has is convenient for vacationers who are looking to get married or host other events on the property.
Tourists who decide to explore the hotel will also find an infinity pool and a helipad.
Anyone in the property hoping to relax can also get access to one of five treatment rooms in the hotel spa.
They can also visit the hotel’s restaurant, which serves traditional Jamaican cuisine dishes like lamb curry and fish stew.
An even bigger way for visitors to connect to the history behind Strawberry Hill Hotel is to visit the on-site Coffee Plantation at the Craighton House Coffee Estate.
The hotel currently promotes a Craighton House Coffee Estate Hike and Tour, during which vacationers can either hike by themselves or pay $20 for a lecture and walking tour of the estate.
Vacationers can get beautiful views from the resort’s infinity pool. It’s one of the many features that hotel guests have access to. The hotel also has a helipad and spa that features five treatment rooms for anyone who is hoping to relax
Hotel guests can also stop by the bar when they’re looking for a drink, which is near the resort’s restaurant
One of the first scenes of ‘Bob Marley: One Love’ shows the events of the attempted assassination of the singer, his wife, Rita Marley, his manager Don Taylor and a fellow band member Louis Griffiths.
All of them survived the shooting, and Marley retreated to the Strawberry Hill Hotel shortly afterward before recording new music.
Marley was one of many famous musicians to stay at the Strawberry Hill Hotel.
According to Island Outpost, other notable guests at the hotel include the Rolling Stones, Marianne Faithful, Grace Jones, Black Uhuru and Willie Nelson.
