Bay Roc Hotel

Bay Roc Hotel.

Opened January 3, 1953 with 66 rooms and 25 cottages, each owned by a shareholder. The hotel is ultra-modern and designed by the famed architect Edward Durell Stone. The hotel was conceived by Carmen Pringle, her son John, and her brother Donald deLisser.
In 1965 they added another story, consisting of 20 air-conditioned bedrooms with ocean-view balconies atop the main building, and also re-decorated almost all the rooms.
Abandoned before 1976.
In 1981 Butch Stewart hired architect Evan Williams to renovate the hotel for $4 million and reopen it the same year as the Sandals Resort Beach Club, later known as Sandals Montego Bay. The first Sandals and all-inclusive.
In 1984 the hotel built the first swim-up bar in the Caribbean.
In 2007 the cottages, now all owned by Sandals, were refurbished and named "Bay Roc Beachfront Villas."
The facade and roofline have been completely altered by Sandals. More whimsical. No ultra-modern remains.