Awards and Accolades
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Half Moon's dedicated team of talented service professionals is the heartbeat of the iconic Half Moon resort. Our iconic resort has received numerous awards and accolades for its exceptional service and gracious hospitality.
Forbes Travel Guide
- The highest-rated resort in Jamaica, Forbes Four-Star Rating (2024)
- Forbes Travel Guide's Best Hotel Bars - Lester's Bar (2025)
TRAVEL + LEISURE
- T+L 500 List (2025, 2023, 2022)
- World's Best List (2024, 2022)
- Eclipse makes "It List" of the world's best new hotels and resorts (2021)
- Top 25 Resort Hotels in the Caribbean, Bermuda, and the Bahamas (2024, 2021)
Tripadvisor
- Tripadvisors Travelers' Choice Best of the Best Award (2019 - 2025)
- Tripadvisor Hall of Fame (2018)
- Tripadvisor Certificate of Excellence (2017, 2016)
AAA
- AAA Four Diamond Award
- AAA Inspector’s Best of Housekeeping Award (2020)
SAFE HOTEL ALLIANCE
- Safe Hotel Alliance (2018, 2017)
chta
- CHIEF Award for Best Practice in Environmental Sustainability (2022)
PREFERRED HOTELS & RESORTS
- GIFTTS Pineapple Award - Overall Hotel (2024)
- I Prefer Members' Choice Award (2022, 2021, 2020)
- Prefer Members’ Choice Awards | Top Hotels in the Caribbean, Central and South America (2019)
TOURISM SERVICE EXCELLENCE AWARDS
- Awarded in the Organizational and Individual Categories (2018)
TODAY'S GOLFER
- Golf World's Top 100: Best Golf Resorts in the World (2021)
HISTORIC HOTELS WORLDWIDE
- Top 25 Most Magnificent Gardens (2024)
- Top 2025 Most Romantic Hotels (2025)
CONDE NAST TRAVELER
- Readers' Choice Awards - #10 of top 40 Resorts in the Caribbean and #1 in Jamaica (2023)
- Readers' Choice Awards - #17 of top 50 Resorts in the Caribbean and #3 in Jamaica (2021)
- Readers' Choice Awards - #6 of top 50 Resorts in the Caribbean and #1 in Jamaica (2020)
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
- Named Best Jamaica Hotels, Best Jamaica Resorts, Best Caribbean Hotels, Best Caribbean Resorts, Preferred Legend Collection Hotels, Preferred Hotels & Resorts (2020)
THE JAMAICA OBSERVER
- Norma Shirley Award for Restaurant of the Year (Sugar Mill, 2024, 2022, 2014 - 2019)
- Best Bar Experience in Montego Bay (Lester's Bar, 2025, 2024, 2023)
- Best Wine & Food Experience (Delmare, 2022)
- Norma Shirley Award for Restaurant of the Year (Delmare, 2025, 2021)
- Solomon Gardner Award for Outstanding Service (Delmare, 2021)
- Solomon Gardner Award for Outstanding Service (Sugar Mill, 2025, 2022, 2019)
- Observer Best Culinary Team Experience Award (Sugar Mill, 2019)
CARIBBEAN JOURNAL
- Best Hotel in Jamaica (2024)
- Caribbean Hotelier of the Year - Shernette Crichton, General Manager (2023)
- Caribbean Hotel of the Year (2022)
- New Hotel of the Year: Eclipse at Half Moon (2021)
MINISTRY OF TOURISM EXCELLENCE IN HEALTH & WELLNESS AWARDS
- Outstanding Wellness Resort (2024)
- Outstanding Spa / Wellness Facility (Fern Tree Spa, 2023, 2024)
LUX LIFE
- Global Luxury Hotel and Spa Awards (2019)
- Most Outstanding Beachfront Resort LUX Global Excellence Awards (2017)
WORLD TRAVEL AWARDS
- Caribbean's Leading Hotel (2024, 2023, 2022)
- Jamaica's Leading Luxury Resort (2023, 2022)