Alexander Britell, Author at Caribbean Journal

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A Sunset Walk on One of the Caribbean’s Most Beautiful Beaches: Grand Anse Beach in Grenada

Join me for a sunset walk on one of the picturesque, stunning, magnificent beaches in the whole Caribbean: Grand Anse Beach in Grenada. Grand Anse, the signature stretch of sand on this beautiful island, is a dynamic, living beach: walking here at sunset means encountering everyone and everything, from a beach workout going on to […]

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This Top Caribbean Luxury Resort Has a New Brand

You’re up on a hillside overlooking St Barth’s particular brand of turquoise, peering out at Flamands Bay, nibbling on accras de morue and sipping on a freshly-made ti’ punch. As they say on this tiny jewel in the French Caribbean, this is the “art of being an island,” and now there’s a new way to […]

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American Airlines Is Launching New Jamaica Flights Next Month

It’s the birthplace of James Bond and one of the most beautiful parts of the island of Jamaica. Next month, the north coast’s Ian Fleming International Airport will welcome its first-ever scheduled international service from American Airlines. The airport, which is located in Boscobel, is about 20 minutes from the ultra-popular travel destination of Ocho […]

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A New “Toes in the Sand” Caribbean Hotel in St Barth

If you’ve been to St Barth, you know St Jean: that picturesque, sugar-white stretch of beach and turquoise water that’s the essence of French Caribbean cool. For the last few years, St Jean has seen one hotspot become particularly popular: Gyp Sea, a sought-after beach club and bar right on the sand. Now, the Gyp […]

American Airlines Is Launching New Jamaica Flights Next Month

If you’re just emerging from a blisteringly cold winter storm, Turks and Caicos’ Grace Bay Beach sounds pretty, pretty good. That’s precisely the point of Delta’s newest flight to Providenciales. The air carrier just kicked off its newest nonstop service to the Caribbean, with a new routes that connects Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport and Providenciales, […]

How The Bahamas' Baha Mar Resort Became a Caribbean Art Destination

Just a short stroll from the lobby at the Baha Mar resort in Nassau is one of the nicest art galleries you’ll see in the Caribbean, called The Current. Walk up another story and you’ll find a different one, this time a full-fledged art museum, Eccho. It’s a rarity, to be sure, for a hotel […]

Why Aruba Is the Caribbean Capital of Chef’s Tables

You walk in to what seems like an art gallery, with marble floors and a few modern pieces on the walls. Suddenly the door opens and you’re inside a dimly-lit, state-of-the-art speakeasy with a dozen chairs and a kitchen. This is Ever, the brainchild of top chef Ever de Peña, who has created a nightly, […]

The British Virgin Islands’ Legendary Peter Island Resort Is Reopening

It has been almost seven years since one of the Caribbean’s most celebrated private-island destinations was shuttered by Hurricane Irma. Now, the Peter Island Resort in the British Virgin Islands is making its triumphant return. This year, Peter Island will officially reopen, a significant boon for the BVI and the broader Caribbean private-island landscape. The […]

American Airlines Just Launched Three New Nonstop Flights to Cancun

American Airlines is in the midst of a significant expansion in the Mexican Caribbean, centered in the area’s buzzing hotspot of Cancun. American has just launched a trio of new routes to Cancun International Airport, with new service from Cincinnati, Nashville and Pittsburgh. That means a total of 18 nonstop routes between the United States […]

Silver Airways Is Adding Nonstop Flights to Two Islands in The Bahamas

Continuing its active expansion in the wider region, Silver Airways is adding a pair of new nonstop routes to the islands of The Bahamas, Caribbean Journal has learned. Beginning in March, Silver will be relaunching service from West Palm Beach to two destinations in The Bahamas: Nassau and Marsh Harbour, Abaco. The Nassau service will […]

This is the Best All-Inclusive Resort in Montego Bay, Jamaica

It’s set on one of the most beautiful beaches you’ll lay eyes upon anywhere in the Caribbean: the sugar-white sands of Doctor’s Cave Beach in Montego Bay, Jamaica. But the S Hotel Montego Bay is not your typical beach resort: it’s an innovative, hip luxury hotel that’s at the forefront of Jamaica’s tourism boom – one […]

Delta Is Relaunching Nonstop Flights From New York to Kingston, Jamaica

Delta Air Lines is bringing back nonstop flights between New York and a burgeoning travel destiantion in Jamaica, Caribbean Journal has confirmed. It’s another new route for Kingston’s Norman Manley International Airport, an air hub that has quietly been adding new nonstop flights from across the United States in the last few years. It’s the […]