Place · Hope Road (Devon House & Bob Marley Museum)
Devon House
Restored 19th-century mansion and grounds on Hope Road: 45 minutes with a house tour, then the ice-cream shop; the classic Kingston stop for first-timers.
Time on site
45–70 min
p95 100 min
Price
on site
bring cash
Hours
unknown
Best time
unknown
28″ bags
Painful
Hope Road (Devon House & Bob Marley Museum): painful
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- Kingston ↗Downtown is a morning stop by taxi to the door; leave before early afternoon.
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Time on site
Minimum
30min
Worthwhile
45min
Typical
70min
p95
100min
Tour times and grounds hours not printed until verified.
Getting in
- Stop
- Hope Road, at the Waterloo Road junction
- Exit
- —
- Ticket
- on site · official site · bring cash
- Stairs
- house: steps at entrances
- Shoes
- Shoes on.
Crowds and switching
- Crowd clock
- Tour groups late morning; queues at the ice-cream counter on weekends.
- Sensory load
- 3/5
- Exposure
- medium
Bailouts
heat
Ice-cream shop and shaded lawns
rain
House interior tour
Nearest rescue anchor: A — Devon House lawns (WC, shade)
Combine in the same cluster
- I-Scream counter (on site)
- Bob Marley Museum (taxi, 5 min)
Red lines
- Taxis can wait outside the gate: arrange the return before you go in.
Nearby
Straight-line distance; walk time adds 30% for streets.
- Sleep areaHope Road guesthouses60 m · 1 min walk
- ClusterHope Road (Devon House & Bob Marley Museum)110 m · 2 min walk
- ClusterNew Kingston230 m · 4 min walk
- Sleep areaNew Kingston hotels730 m · 12 min walk
- ClusterDowntown Kingston (Parade & waterfront)3.5 km · 57 min walk
- ClusterHope Gardens & Papine3.7 km · 60 min walk
Sources
- officialJamaica Tourist Board
- secondaryWikivoyage — Kingston