10 Classic Caribbean Beach Bars

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - August 25, 2014

1 of 10

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon
CJ Travel Editor

Sometimes you want to go somewhere everybody knows your name – or at least where you’re guaranteed to get a great rum punch or local beer. Check out this list (in no particular order) of our favourite Caribbean watering holes, and then start plotting your plan of rum-fueled attack.

Da Conch Shack, Providenciales

Toes in the sand, conch on your plate, and Rayon’s famous rum punch in your hand: Life doesn’t get much better at this beachfront Turks and Caicos institution in Blue Hills.

1 of 10

The Best Caribbean Resorts for Snorkeling, From Bonaire to Belize to Andros

Sergeant majors and grouper and jellyfish and rays. Elkhorn and staghorn coral, reef sharks and organ pipes and barracuda and needlefish. Snorkeling is a pleasure in the Caribbean. But, let’s be honest, snorkeling isn’t often going to be the singular […]

The 15 Best Beaches in The Bahamas You’ve Never Heard Of

They’re far from major airports, set within destinations that are nowhere near the typical tourist map. And that’s what makes them so spectacular. These are the remote, hard-to-reach beaches you dream about. And they’re all in The Bahamas. We’ve visited […]

The 10 Best Caribbean Islands for Beach Bars

Some are filled with them. For others, they’re a rarity. While we all love a great beach bar, not every island is a true beach bar destination — where the beach bar is an art form, and where pilgrims make their […]

the intercontinental dominica with black-sand beach

United Airlines Is Adding Flights to a New Caribbean Island: Dominica

For years, getting to Dominica and its small airport hidden behind mountaintops was not an easy feat. You could fly through San Juan. Or Martinique. Or St Maarten. A nonstop flight from the United States was just a dream. Everything […]

From Marine Health to Resilience, a New Boost for Caribbean Tourism

It’s a changing tourism landscape in the Caribbean right now, from the push to increase sustainability to the continued challenges posed by climate change. A pair of new initiatives are trying to do something about that. The Caribbean Hotel and […]

A New Name for Guadeloupe’s Airport, In Nod to Legendary Writer

Guadeloupe’s airport in Pointe a Pitre now has a new name. The French Caribbean regional air hub has been renamed for Maryse Condé, the late legendary Guadeloupean novelist and intellectual, who passed away earlier this year. Condé’s career included the […]