{"id":17461,"date":"2024-11-30T16:08:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T16:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/?p=17461"},"modified":"2026-03-13T19:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:53:28","slug":"london-travel-story-2023-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/staging\/round-hill-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Round Hill Travel Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\/*! elementor - v3.16.0 - 14-09-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-11-at-12.03.06-PM-e1741710418510-300x266.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-11-at-12.03.06-PM-e1741710418510-300x266.png 300w, https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-11-at-12.03.06-PM-e1741710418510-768x680.png 768w, https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-11-at-12.03.06-PM-e1741710418510.png 783w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<style>\/*! elementor - v3.16.0 - 14-09-2023 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style>\n<h2>Exclusivity &amp; Timeless Luxury<\/h2>\n<header><\/header>\n<p><strong>Round Hill<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Hotel &amp; Villa\u2019s Director<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Round Hill Hotel and Villas,\u00a0the ne plus ultra<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>of resorts in Montego Bay, Jamaica, has a storied past. Part of a onetime sugar plantation, the hotel and private cottages opened in 1953, its first shareholder was Noel Coward.\u00a0Adele Astaire, Fred\u2019s sister and dance partner, owned one of Round Hill\u2019s villas, Number 25, that was later used by John and Jackie Kennedy. JFK actually edited and rehearsed his presidential inauguration speech there, and parts of it are still displayed in the cottage. Oscar Hammerstein owned Villa 12 and met the real-life Maria Von Trapp there. He wrote\u00a0<em>The Sound of Music<\/em>, as well as several other musicals, in the three-bedroom property.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Angela Bassett, Whoopi Goldberg, and Taye Diggs lounged in the private pool while taking in the spectacular hillside views of the Caribbean from Villa 11, the set of the 1998 movie\u00a0<em>How Stella Got Her Groove Back<\/em>. A few years later, Diggs and Idina Menzel had their wedding at Round Hill.\u00a0I stayed in shoe designer Vanessa Noel\u2019s perfectly appointed Villa 12 that also boasts some of the hotel\u2019s best ocean views.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prince Harry &amp; Meghan Markle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-11-at-12.14.10-PM-300x235.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry debuted his romance with Meghan Markle at the resort in 2017 when the actress joined him for the wedding of his best friend Tom \u201cSkippy\u201d Inskip. The occasion marked her first introduction to Harry\u2019s closest circle of friends.\u00a0The couple stayed at Cottage 16, the same one in which author Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, stayed. The\u00a0glamorous, ultra-private villa has six bedrooms, two pools, and stunning views of the Caribbean,\u00a0with decor by Ralph\u00a0Lauren.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ralph Lauren and his wife Ricky own two of the 27 villas on the lush 110-acre property. One, called High Rock, sits on the resort\u2019s highest point: \u201cWe made the house what it should be,\u201d Lauren said of the place he\u2019s owned for more than thirty years. \u201cIt\u2019s in the spirit of Round Hill\u2014very quiet, very elegant.\u201d\u00a0The other, White Orchid, which they purchased in 1996, is down the hill, directly on the beach, and was once owned by William and Babe Paley.<\/p>\n<p>Round Hill is the Lauren\u2019s home from home; the couple visit regularly, along with their children and grandchildren. \u201cWe go there as often as we can escape,\u201d said Ricky, who penned a book about Jamaica titled\u00a0<em>My Island<\/em>. Ralph designed the 36\u00a0luxurious ocean-view guest rooms at The Pineapple House, the property\u2019s main hotel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meet the Hotelier<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Josef Forstmayr<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-11-at-12.14.16-PM-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Josef Forstmayr, Round Hill\u2019s popular managing director, has been at the helm of this elegant Caribbean oasis since 1989. He worked with Ralph Lauren on the resort\u2019s most recent update in 2024 and loves Jamaica just as much as the fashion mogul does.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his office at Round Hill, Forstmayr has a glorious letter from Queen Elizabeth II, naming him Jamaica&#8217;s honorary Consul General for Austria. \u201cThe Queen bestowed the OD, or the Order of Distinction, on me, which I was able to accept having Jamaican citizenship,\u201d Forstmayr said. \u201cBeing a Jamaican and an Austrian, I&#8217;m able to use it. That was a great honor. It was in recognition of the many years that I&#8217;ve worked in tourism, and also on behalf of the government of Austria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the many famous guests at Round Hill during his 35-year tenure, Forstmayr is especially fond of Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, and Sir Paul McCartney, who has been coming to the resort for many years. &#8220;All of Paul McCartney\u2019s children grew up here: Stella, Mary, James, and Heather. They all used to spend every Christmas here, and he&#8217;s an incredible person,\u201d said Forstmayr, who is currently the director of the Jamaica Tourist Board, sits on the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce, and chairs the Montego Bay Arts Council.<\/p>\n<p>After visiting Round Hill for decades, I finally sat down with Forstmayr to hear the story of how this Austrian, now also a Jamaican citizen, found his life\u2019s work in this idyllic setting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hospitality in his<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Bones; Austria &#8211; U.S. \u2013 Jamaica<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Forstmayr\u2019s parents owned a farm and restaurant in a small town outside of Salzburg, Austria, and always encouraged the children to help out with the business. \u201cHospitality is part of what I always was brought up with, and it\u2019s something I always wanted to do,\u201d he said. After finishing college in Salzburg, his parents encouraged him to travel and see the world, so he decided to do postgraduate work at Cornell and its Statler Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>When the program ended, a fellow student from a wealthy Jamaican family invited Forstmayr to visit the island, and he figured why not, and hopped on a plane. That was in 1979, and he\u2019s been there ever since.<\/p>\n<p>He stayed first at a beautiful hotel in Negril called Coconut Grove. It was owned by a stylish Jamaican man and his wealthy German wife. The place was highly successful, even though tourism was floundering in Jamaica at that time due to political upheaval, and they asked him to stay on as assistant manager. That hotel is now part of a larger, mass-market resort, but back then it was one of the great resorts on the island, celebrating the best of Jamaica, with Jamaican furnishings, Jamaican food, staff, and music. \u201cWe had the first reggae band that performed in a hotel. I mean, that didn&#8217;t exist in the early &#8217;80s,\u201d said Forstmayr.<\/p>\n<p>He was hired away from Coconut Grove by Earl Levy, a Jamaican architect and visionary, for his hotel in Port Antonio called Trident Hotel. \u201cThat was one of the great small boutique hotels in the &#8217;80s where we filmed many international movies like\u00a0<em>Cocktail<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Clara&#8217;s Heart<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom Cruise a<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Friend<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Forstmayr met a lot of movie stars, some up and coming, like Tom Cruise who became a pal. Cruise came often with his first wife, Mimi Rogers. \u201cI met them when he had just gotten married; he had just finished the movie\u00a0<em>Risky Business,<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>which hadn\u2019t been released yet. He was with his beautiful redheaded wife, riding on a motorbike and came into my lobby at Trident.\u201d The couple was incredibly beautiful, so he gave them a good rate on a room even though he didn\u2019t know them at all. Now, years later, Forstmayr says he is very fond of the actor. \u201cHe&#8217;s an incredibly nice man, and also a very smart, very real guy.\u201d As Cruise became extremely famous, Forstmayr drove him crazy, telling the actor that he needed more business in the summer months, could he shoot movies there. \u201cHe was the one that actually brought us\u00a0<em>Cocktail<\/em>, his whole family stayed with me at Trident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Cruise was at the peak of his success, after\u00a0<em>Top Gun<\/em>, he told Forstmayr, &#8220;Josef, all this movie fame is nonsense. You&#8217;re only as good as your last film and you&#8217;re always searching for your next one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>1989 to Round Hill<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-11-at-12.14.23-PM-300x215.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" \/>In 1989, Round Hill stole Forstmayr away, offering him what he felt was a great opportunity to rejuvenate the resort which had fallen on hard times. It was only open for four months out of the year, so it had missed out on new business from families. Its old audience was dying out, and they hadn\u2019t invested in the physical place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exclusive &amp; inclusive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Forstmayr took over on the 1st of October 1989 and was asked to open up all year long. In order to do that, he explained, he needed to create a new audience. \u201cYou have to make people feel that it&#8217;s not stuffy, that families will become comfortable here, that we will look after you. That it is very inclusive; it\u2019s not just some very exclusive club that you can&#8217;t get into, because it did have that kind of personality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, he said, the resort\u2019s feel is much warmer. \u201cWe want to be exclusive, but we don&#8217;t want to be excluding anyone. And I think we&#8217;ve been able to do that by becoming a real great resort for children, for Black guests, for gay guests. And Jamaica doesn&#8217;t have a great reputation that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-11-at-12.14.28-PM-202x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/>In fact, Forstmayr is gay and married to a Jamaican man, and says he has never experienced any kind of marginalization on the island. The two have been together since 1999 and married in Austria in 2014. \u201cI keep pushing the love as much as I can. And I must say, I give Jamaica full credit. I have never suffered in any way.\u201d He is proudly gay, and has never held back, and always stood up for his beliefs. \u201cI guess my upbringing helped me, because it never mattered to me, actually, I didn&#8217;t define myself by my sexuality, so that made my life a lot easier in many ways.\u201d He added that he has great respect for his Jamaican husband, who is from a poor family but grew up with tremendous love from his father. \u201cIt shows you that a strong, positive father figure who is accepting of you is incredibly important in a man&#8217;s life. And that was what made Richard so strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Round Hill Staff:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Secret<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Sauce<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ratio of staff to guests at Round Hill is one-to-one. The property has altogether 130 rooms with two beds, so 260 beds and a minimum of 260 staff are on duty. When the hotel<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-11-at-12.14.39-PM-300x197.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" \/>is full, they bring on extra staff, up to 300. And Forstmayr believes it\u2019s the people that make the place unique.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u201c<\/strong>I refer to our staff as our secret sauce,\u201d he said. The people that work there are proud, many have history with it; some workers are second and third generation, so their grandparents helped to build it.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u201c<\/strong>So they have a real investment in this. They create loyalty and they make it possible to really get the feel that this is something that is special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This level of service and privacy is what the famous guests treasure about spending time at Round Hill. Harry and Meghan stayed in Villa 16, a six-bedroom house complete with highly discreet staff \u2013 if you want them. The private chef will prepare gourmet meals, you don\u2019t need to lift a finger during your visit, but if you\u2019d prefer to show off your own culinary skills, the magnificent kitchen is at your disposal.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-11-at-12.14.46-PM-300x223.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/>A<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Place<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Apart:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Understated<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Luxury,<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Warm Jamaican<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Heart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Noting that Jamaica has developed so much over the years, and there are so many more resorts competing on the island now, the original mission that he established when he came on board is what sets Round Hill apart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m a great believer that you focus on the things that you are and that you do well where you are. That&#8217;s really important to me.\u201d said Forstmayr. \u201cWe created this mission statement many, many, many years ago, which is timeless elegance, understated luxury, warm Jamaican heart. Whatever we do, be it improvements in your accommodations, in your services, in your locally produced foods from our organic garden, your local farmers, the local fishermen, we always try to live up to that mission,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd when you do that and you do it as good as you can, the guests will appreciate it and it will set you apart. You never ever have to copy what anybody else does. You just need to do whatever you can do better and make it more relevant<strong>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sugar Cane Ball<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An annual highlight at Round Hill is the Sugar Cane Ball, a charity gala held each February to benefit the Hanover Charities. The charity provides support to local schools, shelters, kitchens and health care, and awards scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>It celebrates the harvesting of the sugar cane, which took place in February, and the charity is linked to the founding of Round Hill. When the sugar was being produced, everybody was working a lot and everybody got more money, but yet there was still a lot of need as well. So John Pringle, the property\u2019s original owner, decided to host a ball once a year where all his rich friends and guests could donate lots of money for good causes for the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor our parish, we focus on the young and the old, the Noel Holmes Hospital in Lucea, the soup kitchen in Lucea, orphanages and old people\u2019s homes,\u201d Forstmayr said. They also grant over 170 tertiary scholarships for young Jamaican male and female students from the parish to study at universities.<\/p>\n<p>This long-held tradition, the Sugar Cane Ball, was another thing that Forstmayr was determined to revitalize when he took over the resort. \u201cI remember when I first came I had a really hard time putting on the Sugar Cane Ball where I wanted people to dress up in black tie and white dinner jackets, and to really create that 1950s-&#8217;60s vibe. It was hard because people were so informal.\u201d However, he and his team were eventually able to recreate that magic and make it fun again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe exciting thing is that the new generation is just as eager to celebrate what their grandparents had<strong>.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>And now you go in February to our biggest Sugar Cane Ball or any other Saturday night, and you have a lot of young people that are dressed to the nines. They&#8217;re celebrating and they&#8217;re having a blast. And it&#8217;s so rewarding to see that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last February the evening raised $880,000 net for charity, after expenses. \u201cWe are the largest charitable organization in Western Jamaica, and we have been around for now almost 69 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>1-800-972-2159<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusivity &amp; Timeless Luxury Round Hill\u00a0Hotel &amp; Villa\u2019s Director Round Hill Hotel and Villas,\u00a0the ne plus ultra\u00a0of resorts in Montego Bay, Jamaica, has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1931],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-experiences"],"acf":{"full_width":false,"header_transparent":false,"header_white":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Round Hill Travel Story - R. 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