There’s a new leader in the Caribbean cruise industry: Windstar Cruises.

The luxury small-ship cruise line has taken home Caribbean Journal’s 2017 Readers’ Choice Award as the Best Caribbean Cruise Line.

The award is the result of surveys of Caribbean Journal’s audience of more than 100,000 daily email subscribers and more than 500,000 unique visitors per month — the world’s largest community of travelers to the Caribbean.

The voting choices included 16 cruise lines, with both large and small-ship lines.

Windstar received the most votes, beating out Royal Caribbean to take home the crown.

Windstar operates a fleet of six luxury “yachts” with no ship larger than 310 guests, with itineraries across the Caribbean region.

For more information, visit Windstar.

— CJ