Caribbean Hotel of the Year: Harbour Village Beach Club, Bonaire

Picking the Caribbean Hotel of the Year is no easy task. The winners regularly include legends of Caribbean hospitality. But when the editorial discussion this year came to Harbour Village, the competition was over. There’s just something perfect about this 40-room retreat set on the best beach in Bonaire, where tranquility is unlimited, the service spectacularly friendly and the setting unmatched. From its La Balandra overwater restaurant to its delicious private-club feel, it’s part of the Caribbean hotel pantheon. The best hotels are the ones you simply don’t want to leave, the ones that have that magnetic pull. Here, it’s not that you don’t want to leave. It’s that you can’t even think about it.