If you loved: James Bond: No Time To Die Go set-jetting to: Jamaica
Daniel Craig’s last hurrah as 007 took him, as is the Bond movie way, to dozens of stunning locations, including Jamaica, which also featured in the first James Bond film, Dr No, in 1962. The Caribbean island holds a special place in the Bond canon, as it’s where Ian Fleming wrote all 14 books.
The author fell in love with Jamaica after his first visit in 1943 and had a house built near a town called Oracabessa on the northeastern coast, with its own beach, which he named Goldeneye. Today, it belongs to the co-founder of Island Records, Chris Blackwell, who’s turned it into a serene 52-room resort, and you can also stay in Fleming’s original villa (for an eye-watering £6,000 a night; theflemingvilla.com) and see the typewriter he used to write many of the Bond books. A third Bond film, Live And Let Die, was also shot on the island, and all three movies feature distinctive settings such as the buzzy seaside town of Montego Bay, the long, sweeping beach at Negril, the smart hotel and yacht club at Morgan’s Bay, and the evocative Blue Mountains. GET THERE Original Travel (originaltravel.co.uk) offers an eight-night Classic Jamaica package from £2,675pp, including three nights in the Blue Mountains, four nights at Goldeneye and return flights. visitjamaica.com