How are excursions booked at the RIU?

I am putting together my travel booklet for my guests. I want to give them an overview of all of the excursions offered in Ocho Rios. Are reps from different companies in the hotel lobby to help them book their excursions when they get to the RIU? For example, when I look up Dunn's River Falls online, a lot of different sites with tours come up. I just don't know the logistics of booking tours....TIA!

I DO know that any Chukka Cove tours (zip line, horseback riding, ATC, etc - Chukka Caribbean Adventures) MUST be booked at the resort, for anywhere in Jamaica actually. (I've been emailing them about some of their tours)

Dunns River Falls I think you can go with pretty much any tour operator/etc.

Yes. The day after you get there you will have a meeting with a rep from the company you booked with. You can then go see them any day while you are there to book an excursion. We waited till my mother arrived and picked an excursion she would like to do we went to dunns river. Then after all our guests left we did horseback riding in the ocean. We actually booked dunns river on the day we went.

Thanks Heidi, Calia & Jamy!!!

The reps are always in the hotel lobby. I would just call your WC and see what she/he can put together for you.

chukka cove DOES NOT have to be booked thur the hotel

We hired our own driver to take us on the river rafting tour which was a chukka excursion. Becouse we had 24 people going it was cheaper ,a dn better for us becouse we could do our own thing with the driver etc and not have others there with us.

any tour you want to go on you can book with the hotel, or hire a driver to take you to the place.

When i was in j 4 years ago we stayed in a private house, not a resort so we had to get a driver to take us to say dunns river falls and we just payed the entry fee when we got there

there are pros and cons to both ways of doing it.

I would suggest just istingthe types of activities offered and figuring the rest out on site

as with many things with a foreign country, what you are told is not always the case LOL

The hotel prefers you to book thru them bc they make money on it, and chukka may well make more money if you book thru the hotel, but its not nessesary. It is convinent though

However when i was there 4 years ago, and 3 weeks ago we did not book thru the hotel and still did the chukka's river rafting and thier appleton river tour.