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This Resort Is the Best Dive Destination in The Bahamas, With Shark Encounters, Blue Holes, Coral Walls, and No Crowds

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The boat leaves the marina and heads into open Bahamian water. Below the surface, the bottom falls away into a wall, reef sharks pass through the blue and the visibility stretches far beyond the edge of the dive group. On another excursion, the destination is a blue hole. On another, a wreck. At night, the […]

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Four Seasons Anguilla to Reopen in March

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By the Caribbean Journal staff Four Seasons’ Anguilla resort is reopening in March, the company told Caribbean Journal in a statement on Monday. One of three Four Seasons-branded resorts in the Caribbean (the others are the brand’s Nevis resort and the recently-rebranded Ocean Club on Paradise Island in the Bahamas), the Four Seasons Anguilla is […]

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Sunwing Launches New Quebec-Caribbean Flights

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By the Caribbean Journal staff Travel giant Sunwing has continued its Caribbean expansion with a pair of new routes from Quebec, the company announced. Sunwing has begun operating the first-ever flights from Mont-Joli in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec to both Punta Cana, Dominican Republic and Cancun, Mexico. The flights are possible because of a […]

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Norwegian’s Big Year

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By the Caribbean Journal staff European low-cost carrier Norwegian had another strong year in 2017, according to the company’s latest data report. Norwegian had its highest-ever passenger figures for a single calendar year, with 33 million worldwide and a load factor of 87.5 percent. That included a major new expansion into the French Caribbean, with […]


Sunwing Launches New Quebec-Caribbean Flights

By the Caribbean Journal staff St Maarten’s cruise renaissance continued this week with a call by SeaDream Yacht Club’s SeaDream 1. The unscheduled call on Port St Maarten was the first of what Port St Maarten officials said they hoped would be “future port calls.” The boutique cruise ship bills itself is one of two […]

Air France Set to Relaunch St Maarten Flights

By the Caribbean Journal staff Air France will soon be resuming its nonstop flights between Paris Charles de Gaulle and St Maarten. The nonstop service between Paris and St Maarten’s Princess Juliana International Airport will resume on Jan. 13, with weekly service on an Airbus A340 with a capacity of 275 seats. The flights will […]

All-Inclusive Royalton Bavaro Opens Doors in Dominican Republic

By the Caribbean Journal staff Fast-growing all-inclusive brand has opened another resort in the Caribbean, this time in Punta Cana. Royalton has officially opened the new Royalton Bavaro on the beautiful Arena Gorda in the Dominican Republic’s tourism hub. Royalton Bavaro includes 730 accommodations, featuring everything from rain showers to two-person soaker tubs and “dreambed” […]

Another Jost Van Dyke Beach Bar Reopens

By the Caribbean Journal staff Another famous beach bar has reopened its doors on Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands in the wake of Hurricane Irma, the British Virgin Islands Tourist Board announced this week. Following the reopenings world-famous bars including Foxy’s and the Soggy Dollar Bar, another top destination has relaunched: Ivan’s […]

Sunwing Launches Nonstop Bonaire Flights

By the Caribbean Journal staff Canadian travel giant Sunwing has launched its first-ever nonstop flights to Bonaire. The weekly service out of Toronto will operate on Sundays through April 15; it is currently the only nonstop flight between Canada and the Dutch Caribbean island. “Saving our customers time and money by providing them with direct […]

A Celebration of Rum in St Lucia

By the Caribbean Journal staff This year’s St Lucia Food and Rum Festival will include a major new expansion: Caribbean Journal’s first-ever Caribbean Rum Awards, a celebration of the best of rum-making from around the region and the world. The Caribbean Rum Awards, which will take place Jan. 12-14, will include a special jury, a […]

VIDEO: Blue Moon, A Spectacular Villa in Martinique

To the right, the imposing Diamond Rock. To the left, the sandy shores of the beach town of Le Diamant. Just ahead, Caribbean blue. It’s the sort of view you can stare at all day long, in the sort of villa you never want to leave. This is the Villa Blue Moon, a modern, strikingly-designed […]

Holland America Line Returns to St Maarten

By Dana Niland CJ Contributor Holland America Line returned to Philipsburg, St Maarten on Saturday with its cruise ship ms Koningsdam. HAL plans to call in Philipsburg, St. Maarten once more with Koningsdam on March 10, as well as six times with ms Eurodam and once with ms Nieuw Amsterdam this season. ms Eurodam begins calling […]