The 25 Best Best Beach Bars in the Caribbean for 2025, From Aruba to St Barth to Eleuthera  

By: - January 10th, 2025
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Arashi Beach Shack, Aruba Aruba is one of the friendliest places in Aruba, but somehow the staff at this beach bar Mecca are somehow even friendlier than you’d even expect. This is just a lovely place to be, filled with palapas, beautiful sand and always-fun cocktails like the Aruba Ariba (a mix of vodka, rum and fruit punch). 

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Alexander Britell is the founder and editor-in-chief of Caribbean Journal and one of the top experts on Caribbean travel worldwide, with decades of on-the-ground travel to the region and comprehensive knowledge of the entire Caribbean Basin.
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Delta Just Launched New More Nonstop Flights to Providenciales, Turks and Caicos 

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There’s an increasingly important city for Caribbean travel: Detroit, Michigan. Delta has quietly been adding a number of new routes from the city to the Caribbean, including one flight that just kicked off late last month: nonstop service between Detroit and Providenciales, Turks and Caicos.  The new route is operating once every week, with service […]

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GOL Just Started a New Nonstop Flight to Aruba 

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Aruba has been one of the fastest-growing Caribbean destinations for travelers from South America, thanks to a concerted effort by the island’s tourism officials to court more tourism from the continent.  Those efforts just got a major boost with the launch of Brazilian carrier GOL’s first-ever nonstop flights between São Paulo and Aruba.  The new […]

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From St Thomas to St Croix, US Virgin Islands Travel Is Hotter Than Ever

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The food scene in Christiansted. The new-look downtown in Charlotte Amalie. The stunning villas in St John. The sand on Buck Island. The festivals, well, everywhere. The US Virgin Islands has been leading the Caribbean travel renaissance, and now the destination has broken yet another record.  The territory’s two main airports, Cyril E. King in […]

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New Grand Hyatt Resort Planning Fall Debut in Grand Cayman

 Grand Cayman’s highly-anticipated new Grand Hyatt resort is planning a fall debut, Caribbean Journal has learned.  The resort, which has tapped Aimbridge Hospitality as its management company, will be set in the West Bay area near the island’s beloved Seven Mile Beach.  Notably, it will be a residential resort, with a mix of one, two […]
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A Major New Caribbean Marina Resort Project  

 It’s home to some of the region’s top luxury resorts, a place known for its food, its beaches and its low-key charm. But soon it will be known for something else: the island’s first-ever superyacht marina, part of a significant new development that could be a game-changing project for the destination. So where is it? […]
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Avianca Is Adding Miami-Costa Rica Nonstop Flights 

 Grand Cayman’s highly-anticipated new Grand Hyatt resort is planning a fall debut, Caribbean Journal has learned.  The resort, which has tapped Aimbridge Hospitality as its management company, will be set in the West Bay area near the island’s beloved Seven Mile Beach.  Notably, it will be a residential resort, with a mix of one, two […]
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IPA Export’s Heico Thorn on Supplying Caribbean Hotels

 From hotel rum bars to some of the Caribbean’s top restaurants, Heico Thorn has played a major role in supplying top projects across the region in the last few decades. Thorn’s IPA Export, founded in 1993, has helped complete hundreds of projects from the British Virgin Islands to Dominica to St Vincent and everywhere in […]