August 2026 - Caribbean Journal

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Tourism

How One Caribbean Beach Became a Haven for Rum Punches, Seafood, and Toes-in-the-Sand Bars

There are beaches where you bring a cooler. Beaches where you order from a waiter under an umbrella. And then there is Pinney’s Beach in Nevis, where a walk through the sand can turn into an afternoon of rum punches, grilled fish, lobster, cold Carib beers and conversations with the people pouring them. Beach bars […]

Flights

Puerto Rico Is Getting New Daily Holiday Flights From Dallas, Houston, and Cleveland

The blue cobblestones of Old San Juan, the kiosks and beaches of Piñones, an afternoon under the palms at Escambrón. Puerto Rico packs an unusual amount into a long weekend, and getting there from the mainland is about to get easier for travelers in three major U.S. markets. Frontier Airlines is adding seasonal daily flights to San Juan […]

CJ Invest

Hyatt Is Making a Major Guyana Push With a $50 Million Regency Redevelopment and a New Georgetown Hotel

Hyatt Hotels is entering Guyana, with an existing Georgetown hotel joining the Hyatt portfolio now and a much larger Hyatt Regency project planned for 2028. The company and RJR Investments & Holdings Inc. announced that the Atlantic Suites Hotel has become an affiliated Hyatt hotel, giving Hyatt its first affiliated property in Guyana. The project […]

Southwest Airlines Is Launching New Flights to a Caribbean Island Famous for Easy Vacations, Chef’s Tables, and Beach Resorts

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A table with 18 seats wrapped around an open kitchen. A swim-up room steps from Palm Beach. An afternoon under a palapa on Eagle Beach followed by dinner from a chef serving an eight-course tasting menu a few miles away. The Caribbean island of Aruba has developed a particularly easy vacation formula, one where a beach-resort […]

Hyatt Is Making a Major Guyana Push With a $50 Million Regency Redevelopment and a New Georgetown Hotel

Sandals’ Jamaica story is getting a major new chapter this winter. It starts Nov. 18, when Sandals South Coast reopens after a major reimagining. A month later, Sandals Montego Bayreturns on Dec. 18, joined the same day by the debut of Sandals Caribbean Cay, the new name and new incarnation of the former Sandals Royal […]

Flight Watcher: New York to Nassau for $371 Roundtrip on Delta

A late-September afternoon on Cable Beach can still give you long stretches on the sand, lunch close to the beach, and enough time to head downtown for conch fritters and a cold Kalik before dinner. From New York, the flight is short enough to turn six days in Nassau into a real Caribbean vacation rather than a trip dominated […]

How the Dominican Republic's Brugal Is Crafting a New Kind of Aged Rum

There are only so many variables in the function of a spirit. For a molasses rum, it’s things like the yeast, the fermentation and, of course, the barrel — both different char profiles and cask finishes. For an agricole, it’s terroir or cane varietal and then, of course, the barrel. The quest for innovation has led […]

Caribbean Photo of the Week: Lindquist Beach in St Thomas, USVI

The latest Caribbean Photo comes to us from Caribbean Journal reader Michael Blake of Chagrin Falls, OH, who sent in this lovely shot of Lindquist Beach on the island of St Thomas. Have you taken a great photo in the Caribbean? Send it to news@caribjournal.com with CPOTW in the subject line, including your first and […]

Fall Luxury Travel Is Surging, With Virtuoso Sales Up 69 Percent

The traditional luxury travel calendar is getting rewritten. New data from Virtuoso shows extraordinary demand for travel this fall, with sales for fall 2026 running 69 percent ahead of the first half of 2025 and reservations up 59 percent. The gains extend across all three major fall months, pointing to sustained demand well beyond the summer vacation period. September is […]

United Airlines Is Going Daily to Barbados From Newark and Washington, D.C. for the Holiday Season

A table at The Cliff. A week at Sandy Lane. A villa in Paynes Bay with the whole family coming in for Christmas. Barbados has long had its own version of the Caribbean festive season, one defined by packed hotels, hard-to-get restaurant reservations and repeat visitors who return every December. This year, United Airlines is putting considerably more seats […]

The 10 Best Resorts in St Vincent and the Grenadines, From All-Inclusive Luxury to Stunning Beaches and Island-Hopping

St Vincent used to be the Caribbean island many travelers flew over on the way to somewhere else in the Grenadines. Then Sandals arrived. The 2024 opening of Sandals Saint Vincent and the Grenadines brought a major new resort to the island’s southwestern coast, with overwater villas, private-pool suites, 12 food concepts, nine bars and […]

Air Canada Is Adding Two New Destinations in Mexico This Winter From Toronto and Vancouver

Canadian travelers will have two more nonstop options for a Mexico escape this winter, including one route into the heart of the Yucatán and another linking British Columbia with one of Mexico’s best-known Pacific beach cities. Air Canada is adding Mérida and Mazatlán to its winter network, with new seasonal flights from Toronto to Méridaand […]