I was on a trip by myself which was half holiday, half a self-arranged fam trip visiting Sandals resorts. The last hotel I was staying at was, luckily, Sandals Montego Bay, so just five minutes from the airport – my scheduled flight home was the Virgin Atlantic 9.30pm from MBJ to LHR on 25th October [The Jamaican government has closed its international airports until further notice].
Sandals Montego Bay had started taking measures to secure the property, taking sunbeds off the beach, securing all water sports equipment, reducing the restaurants and advising guests to try and get an earlier flight home before the weekend if possible.
Agent: ‘I was on last UK-bound flight out of Jamaica before Hurricane Melissa hit’
Weather
Jennifer Morris
28 October 2025
Sarah Heduan, a personal travel consultant at Hedge Travel, was in Montego Bay, Jamaica, last week. Below she recalls the feeling on the ground and the atmosphere on her flight home on Saturday, as the region prepared for "major" hurricane, Hurricane Melissa, to make landfall.
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