WHERE TO BUY ICE IN DOWNTOWN KINGSTON

Finding us

We’re on Hanover Street in the heart of Downtown Kingston, a few minutes from Parade, the waterfront and Coronation Market. Look for the Ice Makers sign on the building. Pull up outside and someone will come out to you; for a big load we bring the bags to the vehicle.

If you’re coming for a handful of bags, just come. If you’re coming for fifty, or it’s a Friday, send a WhatsApp or place the order online first and the bags are stacked and waiting. The order form has a pickup option, and it shows how much of that day’s production is still free before you commit.

What you can walk out with

10-pound bags of tube ice

Made here, not trucked in. Our tube ice is produced on a commercial plant from reverse-osmosis purified water, so it’s clear, hard, slow to melt and clean enough to go in the glass. Because you’re buying at the plant, the volume tiers apply from the first bag:

A cooler, already packed with ice

For a party, a road trip or a stall, skip the loose bags and take a rental cooler that leaves full. Three sizes: Small (65 L, 6–8 bags, $5,500), Medium (135 L, 14–16 bags, $10,000) and Large (19–23 bags, $15,000), ice included. A refundable deposit is paid at pickup and comes back with the cooler.

Liquor, beer, drinks and tobacco by the case

The same building is a liquor and beverage wholesaler. White overproof and aged rum, beer and stout, tonic wine and rum cream, energy drinks, chasers and mixers, and tobacco and grabba — by the case, at trade prices, loaded next to your ice.

Why our wholesale prices stay affordable

We don’t buy through a middleman. Ice Makers JA holds trade accounts directly with Jamaica’s main distributors, so the case price you pay at Hanover Street is close to the price the big supermarkets pay — and because the ice is made on site, we don’t need a fat margin on the drinks to keep the lights on.

Plus Red Stripe, Heineken, Guinness and Dragon Stout, Rum Bar overproof, Sangster’s, Smirnoff, Ting and Red Bull. Registered buyers see the full catalog with live stock and case prices on the wholesale portal, any hour. For a bar that doesn’t want to tie up cash before a big weekend, approved accounts can take stock on consignment and settle as it sells.

Who buys ice downtown, and how

• Bars and rum shops — a standing order (daily, weekly or every two weeks) through the portal, so the ice and the cases arrive without anyone remembering to call.
• Market and street vendors — early pickup of 10–50 bags for the drinks cart, the fish stall or the produce table. Tube ice lasts longer under a tarpaulin than pond ice does.
• Promoters and event crews — a filled cooler or two for the small fete, or 200+ bags at the bulk rate for the big one, with generators, fans, tables and chairs on the same order.
• Households — a cooler for the beach or the nine night, picked up on the way out of town.

Pickup or delivery?

Pickup is free and fastest. Delivery is $5,000 across Kingston, St. Andrew, Portmore and Spanish Town, and free on 50 bags or more or any order over J$50,000. Either way, the price of the ice itself is the same, so if you’re downtown anyway, come collect and save the delivery fee.

Questions people ask before they drive down