Barbuda Has a New International Airport, in a “Game Changer” for the Caribbean Island
Princess Diana Beach. A soon-to-open Robert De Niro hotel. A Nobu restaurant right on the beach. A beautiful oceanfront boutique hotel. The most exclusive golf course and new luxury resort community in the Caribbean. Barbuda is buzzing right now, and […]
A New Overwater Spa Is Coming to the British Virgin Islands
One of the Caribbean’s most exclusive residential resorts is set to debut a new overwater spa, Caribbean Journal has learned. Oil Nut Bay in Virgin Gorda is set to debut its new Sundara Spa + Studio, with an opening planned […]
This Fast-Growing Caribbean Cruise Port Has a New General Manager
One of the Caribbean’s fastest-growing cruise ports has new leadership, Caribbean Journal has learned. The Antigua Cruise Port has named Gasper George as its new general manager, Global Ports Holding Americas confirmed. George, a native of Saint Lucia, also serves […]
Riu Just Relaunched This Punta Cana All-Inclusive Resort With Nearly 1,000 Rooms
It wasn’t your typical renovation in the Caribbean. All-inclusive brand Riu actually demolished one of its Bavaro Beach-area resorts to pave way for a massive expansion of the one next door. The result? The new-look, significantly larger all-inclusive Riu Palace […]
Barbuda Has a New International Airport, in a “Game Changer” for the Caribbean Island
Princess Diana Beach. A soon-to-open Robert De Niro hotel. A Nobu restaurant right on the beach. A beautiful oceanfront boutique hotel. The most exclusive golf course and new luxury resort community in the Caribbean. Barbuda is buzzing right now, and […]
The New LIAT Just Launched Its New Flights to the Island of St Vincent
The rainforest, the volcano, the island-hopping, the Caribbean’s strongest rum. St Vincent is on the travel map in a big new way, in large part thanks to the debut of its new Sandals resort. It’s all shining a new light […]
Riu Just Relaunched This Punta Cana All-Inclusive Resort With Nearly 1,000 Rooms
It wasn’t your typical renovation in the Caribbean. All-inclusive brand Riu actually demolished one of its Bavaro Beach-area resorts to pave way for a massive expansion of the one next door. The result? The new-look, significantly larger all-inclusive Riu Palace […]
The Caribbean’s Newest Overwater Suites Are At a Marriott All-Inclusive in Antigua
They’ve been a standard in the South Pacific for decades: overwater bungalows, those standalone cottages perched right above the water with thatched roofs and glass floors. In the Caribbean, though, it wasn’t until 2016, when Sandals opened their first overwater […]
Caribbean Airlines Is Adding Flights to Two New Islands: Martinique and Guadeloupe
Together, they make up the undisputed rum capital of the world. But it’s not just their unrivaled sugarcane that makes the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe so fascinating to visit. The rainforests. The volcanos. The exquisite French Caribbean fusion […]
Rum Journal: In St Thomas, a Rum Bar With a View
Sushi. Poke. Rum. The sign at the entrance makes a rather compelling case. But the biggest selling point at the US Virgin Islands’ newest rum bar, Sugarfin, sn’t any of those things. It’s the view. Here at the legendary Frenchman’s Reef […]
Rum Journal: A Legendary Rum Bar in Athens, Greece, Baba Au Rhum
We’ve written often in these pages of the joy of the Rum Bar, a bar that celebrates the best of Caribbean rum-making with a diverse, robust selection of rums from across the region. For years, such bars were few and […]
Rum Journal: The Caribbean’s Best New Rum Is From Grenada
They have been making rum here in some form for almost three centuries, in a 500-acre estate anchored by waving cane fields on the southern coast of Grenada. As you walk around the grounds, you find the remnants of centuries […]
Rum Journal: The Best Rum in Belize
The focus of the rum world has traditionally been eastward. The vast number of distilleries across the islands of the Eastern Caribbean have always dominated the attention of rum consumers and connoisseurs alike, with only Guatemala’s Ron Zacapa and Nicaragua’s […]