Jamaica Cycle Challenge

Explore the Caribbean culture of Jamaica, cycling east to west along the island’s northern shore. You’ll experience the best the island has to offer, cycling along the coastal routes that circle its mountainous heart.

Join team Hampton and Mr Motivator in this chance of a lifetime 380km cycle across Jamaica in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care.

Once you have signed up and paid your £250 registration fee (non refundable - we also ask participants to raise at least £3,000 in sponsorship), the package includes

• Return flights from London Heathrow to Kingston
• Local transfers
• Hotel accommodation
• Tour manager
• Luggage transfers whilst cycling
• All meals except on free days (BB only on days seven and eight)
• Trek mountain bikes
• Luggage transfers between accommodation
• Full support team and guides

Itinerary

Day 1 - London Heathrow to Kingston, Jamaica
We depart the UK arriving into Kingston, Jamaicain the early evening. We have a short transfer to our hotel in the centre of the city for a welcome meal with our guides, local dignitaries and Derrick Evans, also known as Mr Motivator, who is championing our cycle across his homeland.

Day 2 - Kingston to Robins Bay, 60 km
We begin our Jamaican cycle challenge atEmancipation Park where we start with our bike fitting and briefing on the challenge ahead. We cycle through the city suburbs north, joined by local Jamaican club riders for one of the first significant challenges of this ride – a 5km climb up Stony Hill. We stop for a rest in Stony Hill Square before continuing the morning cycle through scenic mountain landscape towards the Botanical Gardens at Castleton where we stop for lunch. The afternoon’s cycle is an easier downhill free wheel to the north coast, where we pick up the coastal road – a paved highway surface. We ride along the highway before turning inland and climbing to Green Castle Estate and on to Robins Bay.

Day 3 - Robins Bay to Ocho Rios, 70 km
We start the day’s cycling after an early breakfast,heading inland on good roads before once again joining the coastal road at Port Maria. Leaving here we have the first challenge of the day, climbing Breezy Hill before a descent into the resort of Goldeneye. We have an early lunch in Oracabessa before embarking on two more hill sections and the final 20km along the coast to our hotel at Ocho Rios.

Day 4 - Ocho Rios to Falmouth, 75 km
We leave Ocho Rios, passing Mammee Bay along the way. From there we take in 30km of excellent coastal riding taking us all the way to Discovery Bay where we stop for lunch. The final 37km to Falmouth are punctuated with another challenging hill section – the innocently named “Coral Spring Rise”.

Day 5 - Falmouth to Montego Bay, 75km
We cycle through Falmouth, Jamaica’s most complete Georgian town before cutting inland to Wakefield across undulating hill country and a different landscape to the coastal route we have been following. We drop to the flat, green terrain of the Queen of Spain’s Valley and end the day following the Montego River through a thickly wooded gorge all the way to Montego Bay.

Day 6 - Montego Bay – Negril, 100km
For the last and longest day of our challenge we head towards the easternmost tip of the island and the town of Negril. We start the day cycling 10km out of Montego Bay before arriving at Hopewell. We continue cycling along the coast to Lucea where we stop for lunch. After lunch we head south for the last 39km ride before crossing the finish line in Negril.

Day 7
Today is a free day to explore Montego Bay.

Day 8
Another free morning before our transfers tothe airport for our flight back to the UK.

Day 9
Arrive in the UK.