Jamaica’s north coast has its famous names, but there are still stretches that are under the radar — the kind of places you reach after the airport roads thin out, where the scenery turns greener, the shoreline deepens, and the island feels less like a resort corridor and more like Jamaica. It’s a bit off the beaten path, and now it’s now the best-kept secret on the island. That’s what you find in Green Island. 

It’s also the home of Princess Senses The Mangrove: the most exciting new resort on the island. 

Princess Hotels and Resorts Jamaica has officially reopened the adults-only all-inclusive resort, welcoming guests again as of this week. For Jamaica’s winter season, the return is a meaningful one. It brings a large number of rooms back into the market, reintroduces one of the island’s most ambitious resort builds, and restores a property designed for travelers who want an adults-only stay that still comes with the full, expansive infrastructure of a major all-inclusive.

What Reopened, and Why It Matters

Princess Senses The Mangrove is the adults-only half of a paired resort development from Princess Hotels & Resorts Jamaica. The adults-only property sits alongside the family-focused Princess Grand Jamaica, which is expected to reopen March 1. .

In practical terms, the February reopening puts 401 ocean-view suites back into Jamaica’s winter inventory at a time when the island continues to perform as one of the Caribbean’s strongest destinations for peak-season travel.

Princess Hotels and Resorts Jamaica is positioning the reopening as part of Jamaica’s broader momentum, and the timing reflects that. Early February is when travelers from North America are looking hardest for warm weather, and when all-inclusive resorts see some of their most reliable occupancy.

The Setting: Mangrove, Water, and a Different Kind of Arrival

Most large Caribbean all-inclusives begin with a beachfront first impression: a wide view of sand, palm trees, and open water. Princess Senses The Mangrove takes a different route. The property sits within a mangrove environment, and that shapes the experience from the first moments on site.

Instead of feeling like you’ve arrived at a resort dropped onto a strip of beach, you feel the landscape around it. There’s more greenery, more density, more water at the edges. The setting adds a sense of separation, even inside a large resort footprint. It also gives the property a more intimate feel than many big all-inclusives, where the first impression can be openness and scale rather than privacy.

That matters in a simple way: it changes how the resort feels when you’re walking it. The paths, the views, the pockets of shade, the waterlines — all of it influences the pace of a stay.

The Resort, in Real Terms

Princess Senses The Mangrove is a large, full-service all-inclusive. The reopened resort offers 401 ocean-view suites, multiple restaurants and bars, several swimming pools, and a schedule of entertainment designed to keep the property active well after sunset.

The broad pool offering includes a rooftop infinity pool, which is one of the signature features guests tend to remember. It also includes a world-class spa and a white-sand beach, giving the resort the two essential pieces you are looking for: water you can spend the day in, and sand you can spend the afternoon on.

There are also the details that define the modern all-inclusive category: daily refreshed mini-bars, themed parties, and nightly entertainment. It’s designed to be the entire trip, with enough variety on site that you can stay in the resort orbit for days at a time without feeling like you’ve run out of options.

The resort also promotes its premium club-style layer, branded as the Platinum Club experience, aimed at guests looking for an upgraded stay within the broader all-inclusive setup.

The Food and Drink Focus

Princess Senses The Mangrove is leaning into culinary variety as one of its core selling points. Like many newer all-inclusive resorts, the goal is to provide enough restaurant concepts and bar environments that guests feel like they’re moving through different experiences without leaving the property.

The resort is positioned around specialty dining venues and multiple bars, and while the overall structure remains classic all-inclusive, the intent is clear: to offer enough range that a weeklong stay doesn’t feel repetitive.

For Jamaica, this is also part of the larger market shift. Travellers have become more specific. They’re looking for a certain kind of restaurant night, a certain kind of cocktail bar, a certain kind of pool atmosphere. The best-performing all-inclusives have adapted by building more distinct dining and drinking environments into the resort itself.

Princess Senses The Mangrove is also leaning hard into suite categories designed for couples, including its Our Pleasure suites, which are positioned around a more intimate, mood-forward stay. For guests looking for an upgraded experience, the resort’s Platinum Club suites add private-access areas, elevated in-room amenities and butler service.

Staying at The Mangrove also comes with access to the neighboring Princess Grand Jamaica, just minutes away, expanding the overall resort offering to 14 restaurants and 15 bars. Dining ranges from specialty venues like a steakhouse and Jamaican, Italian, Mexican and Asian options to buffets and a more casual food truck concept.

Beyond the rooms and restaurants, the resort is built like a full destination: multiple swimming pools, an aquatic park with water slides, a fitness and wellness center, a convention center, a nightclub, a sports field, a spa and a full daily and nightly entertainment program

Yes, Overwater Bungalows

The overwater bungalows are the headline accommodation here, and they occupy a rare place in Jamaica’s resort market.

Princess Senses The Mangrove has 14 overwater villas, each designed with partial glass floors and private infinity pools. They’re built for travellers who want the overwater experience without leaving Jamaica, and without flying to a destination where overwater villas are more common.

The appeal is straightforward. You step onto a private deck. You’re above the water. The view is uninterrupted. The villa is built around the idea of being outside as much as being inside. The glass floor sections give you a direct look down into the water, and the private infinity pool creates the kind of private, self-contained experience that tends to define the overwater category.

It’s bucket list, plain and simple. 

In Jamaica, that’s still a novelty. The island’s resort inventory has historically been defined by beachfront suites, hillside villas, and classic all-inclusive room categories. Overwater accommodations remain a small niche, which makes these villas a strong identity marker for the property.

They’re also a clear signal of the resort’s ambition: a large all-inclusive with a handful of high-end accommodations designed to compete in a more premium conversation.

The Platinum Club

The resort’s Platinum Club is its most adults-forward, mood-driven offering — a private-layer experience built around exclusivity, design, and programming. Guests with Platinum Club access get entry to a dedicated private pool area with daily activities and entertainment, along with themed cocktail events and dinners designed to feel more social and immersive than standard resort nightlife. It’s also tied directly to a set of signature suite categories, including the Pleasure Junior Suite and Swim Out Pleasure Junior Suite, with details like round king beds, soaking tubs, and furnished balconies with hydromassage hot tubs.

The Two-Resort Concept

Princess Senses The Mangrove is part of a paired structure: the adults-only resort alongside Princess Grand Jamaica, the family-friendly sister property scheduled to reopen March 1, 2026.

For travellers, this dual-resort setup is one of the most practical aspects of the brand’s Jamaica strategy. It allows Princess to serve different travel types without forcing them into the same environment.

Adults-only guests can stay in a property designed specifically for that trip. Families can stay in a resort built for them. And for groups travelling together — couples with friends, multi-generational families splitting into different experiences — the proximity creates flexibility.

It also gives the brand a larger footprint in the market. Two resorts operating side by side increases visibility, increases room supply, and positions Princess as one of the major all-inclusive players in Jamaica’s current development cycle.

What the Reopening Means for Jamaica

Jamaica’s resort market has been expanding steadily, with new builds, upgrades, and a noticeable shift toward large-scale all-inclusive development.

The reopening of Princess Senses The Mangrove adds momentum to that story. It reinforces the island’s ability to sustain large resort operations, and it contributes to the continued growth of Jamaica’s winter-season inventory.

In the larger Caribbean context, Jamaica remains one of the region’s most competitive destinations. It has strong airlift, a wide range of accommodations, and a brand identity that remains distinct. Reopenings like this matter because they reinforce Jamaica’s ability to keep delivering room supply and product variety at the level the market demands.

Who This Resort Is Right For

Princess Senses The Mangrove is designed for travelers who want adults-only but still want the full resort environment. It’s a fit for couples who like activity as much as downtime, for friend groups planning a winter escape, and for those who want a resort where everything is handled in one place.

It’s also a fit for guests who want the option of a premium accommodation category. The overwater villas provide a specific upgrade path for those who want something beyond a standard suite, and who want a room that becomes part of the trip’s identity. It’s Bora Bora in the Caribbean. 

How to Get There

Jamaica remains one of the easiest Caribbean destinations to reach from North America, particularly during winter, when airlines add capacity and increase frequency.

Most visitors will arrive via Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, which is the island’s busiest gateway and the most common entry point for resorts along the north coast. The airport has extensive nonstop service from major cities in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom during peak season.

From Montego Bay, ground transfers connect you to resorts along the coast. Drive times vary depending on traffic and the resort’s exact location, but the route is a classic Jamaica arrival: sea views, roadside vendors, and the island’s mix of bustle and greenery as you move away from the airport corridor.

The Bottom Line

Princess Senses The Mangrove is back in the Jamaica market, and its reopening is a meaningful addition to the island’s winter-season inventory. It returns as a large adults-only all-inclusive with a full resort offering, and it reopens with one of the more distinctive accommodation categories currently available in Jamaica: overwater villas.

Prices at Princess 

You can find prices for rooms starting at around $699 per night, all-inclusive, for stays at the end of March.