Skylark, Negril The Skylark on Negril’s Seven Mile Beach is a dazzler — it’s fine to wear your sunglasses inside when the midday sun blazes off the chalk-white walls of this 28-room boutique hotel. Miss Lilly’s, the Jamaican restaurant that found success in New York before coming home to Skylark, is by contrast an explosion of color both in decor and on the plate, the latter filled with jerk food smoked on-site and a wide variety of locally inspired “yard food.” Owner Paul Salmon says Skylark, opened in 2018, is “architecturally designed on retro bones — with its breeze blocks it’s got a retro vibe and a different design aesthetic than most boutique hotels in Jamaica.” A younger demographic helps energize Skylark, which despite the attention to aesthetics and beachfront location appeals to budget-conscious travelers with rooms rates starting as low as $150 per night in high season.
