I hope someone can help with my question. I have spent days researching this on the internet without decent results. My next course of action would be to start making expensive (on a strict budget) phone calls to Jamaica to get more info.

Does anyone know of some method of ground transportation (not bus - my husband are older and can't lug all our suitcases on a bus) between the cruise port in Ocho Rios in Jamaica and Montego Bay (roundtrip)?

We are taking two cruises in December of 2011. The first one takes us to Ocho Rios and the second one picks us up in Ocho Rios. The hotel we booked is in Montego Bay (no cruises to Montego bay, only to Falmouth). We will be staying at the hotel in Montego Bay for four nights.

Cost is an issue. The best I could come up with is a car rental (could only come up with one in Ocho Rios - seems almost all car rental are in Montego Bay or Kingston. The cost is $359 for 4 nights for their least expensive vehicle that is not manual (neither of us knows how to drive a manual car).

This is pushing our budget to the limits and we don't really need a car for 4 days. We just want to go to Montego Bay and back from Ocho Rios (seems everyone goes the other way - Montego Bay to Ocho Rios and then back to Montego Bay.

My husband and I hate to fly (and are shocked at all the add on costs the airlines have imposed since since we last flew in 2006) so we opted for two cruises instead (admittedly more expensive than flying but at least we get two partial cruises out of it in addition to our hotel stay in Jamaica.

Hopefully someone out there has done something like this before and can offer up some advice.