Shopping

Wassi Art

The largest art pottery in Jamaica. Over 50 artisans turn out wonderful pottery. Factory tours include a brief session at a potter’s wheel. Virtually every aspect of the manufacturing process, including the digging, hauling, and processing of the Blue Mountain clay, is done the old-fashioned way, by hand. All glazes used in the process are nontoxic and FDA approved.

Ocho Rios Craft Park

Over 135 artisans offer ready-made and items made to order, while you wait.

Island Plaza

Located in downtown Ocho Rios, Island Plaza has some of the best Jamaican art by local artists. You can also purchase local handmade crafts (be prepared to haggle), carvings, ceramics, kitchenware.

Hemp Heaven

Hemp Heaven, located in the Island Village Shopping Center, has a sense of Jamaican nationalism and good, creative fun. It only stocks items made from or related to hemp, the fibrous stalk of the marijuana plant. Most of the objects are made in Jamaica. Items include T-shirts (45% cotton, 55% hemp), candles, massage creams.

The Coffee Café

Come see examples of the production, processing, and marketing of Jamaican coffee in this café/gift shop/museum. The gift shop sells coffee mugs, coffee memorabilia, and vacuum-packed foil bags filled with Jamaica’s finest coffee.

Ocean Village Shopping Centre

One of Ocho Rios’ original shopping plazas, with numerous boutiques, food stores, a bank, sundries purveyors.

Ocho Rios Pharmacy

Sells most proprietary brands of over the counter medicines, cosmetics and suntan lotions.

Soni’s Plaza

Offers many fine jewelers, Jamaican jewelry made from hematite, a mountain stone, in addition to shops for souvenirs (Soni’s), Blue Mountain coffee (Taj Gift Center).

Pineapple Place Shopping Centre

Just east of Ocho Rios, this is a collection of shops in cedar-shingle-roofed cottages set amid tropical flowers.


On your shopping trip into downtown Ocho Rios, if you wish, you will be escorted by either your driver or one of our villa staff. The hundreds of local street vendors can be rather energetic in their pursuit of tourists. In the sport of price negotiation, vendors always open with an extremely inflated price and make a game of getting to a reasonable price.