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15 Caribbean Beaches Where You Can Go Snorkeling Straight From the Sand

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You don’t always need a boat to find the Caribbean you dream about. Some of the region’s clearest water and most colorful reefs sit just beyond the shoreline, close enough that all you have to do is step off the sand, lower your mask and let the sea take over. These are the beaches where […]

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The Best Restaurants in Old San Juan, From Legendary Burger Joints to Iconic Tables

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Old San Juan is a city you taste as much as you see. Behind the pastel façades and blue cobblestones is a dining scene that defines Puerto Rico’s spirit — bold, inventive, rooted in tradition yet unafraid to reinvent itself. Some restaurants are places of legend, where cocktails were born and writers found inspiration. Others […]

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Why Guadeloupe Is a Caribbean Island Hopping Paradise

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Guadeloupe isn’t one island—it’s a self-contained archipelago of six inhabited isles (and countless islets and cays), each with its own rhythm, landscape, and identity. Set in the French Caribbean, Guadeloupe is unified by a strong Creole and French heritage, yet offers a surprisingly diverse range of experiences just a ferry ride away. Whether you’re hiking […]

Flights

Traveling from Canada to Cancun? There’s a New Way to Get There. 

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There’s a new way to get from Canada to Cancun in the Mexican Caribbean. Porter Airlines is expanding its network into sun destinations for the first time, with new flights to Cancun from Toronto, Ottawa, and Hamilton set to launch this winter. The new Cancun service is part of a broader expansion announced by the […]


Why Guadeloupe Is a Caribbean Island Hopping Paradise

BermudAir is launching nonstop service to Anguilla this winter, part of a major expansion that introduces a new brand and its first scheduled destination outside of Bermuda. The new service, operating under the name AnguillAir, will connect Anguilla with direct flights from Boston and Baltimore beginning Dec. 19, 2025, marking a significant boost in regional airlift from the U.S. […]

Avianca Just Relaunched Two Nonstop Flights to Cartagena, Colombia’s Caribbean Hotspot 

The old city. The beaches. The art. The magic. Cartagena has been surging in popularity in recent years, with travelers drawn to its rare blend of colonial charm and modern cool. And if you’re heading to the hotspot on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, it’s even easier to get there.  Cartagena just relaunched its two […]

6 Stunning Pink Sand Beaches to Visit in the Caribbean

Ranging in color from blinding ivory to exotic ebony, beaches are some of the Caribbean’s most valuable stock in trade, drawing sand-and-sea lovers from all over the world. But none are as enchanting as those pink-sand beaches, which practically beg to be immortalized on your social feed. They’re few and far between, but their rarity […]

One of the Caribbean’s Coolest Snorkeling Spots Is an Offshore Corner of Belize Filled With Sharks and Rays 

Belize isn’t just jungle ruins and white sand cayes. Off the coast of Ambergris Caye, Shark Ray Alley tells a different story — one of swirling fins, sunlit shallows, and the electric thrill of snorkeling with the sea’s most graceful predators. You don’t just jump into the water at Shark Ray Alley. You ease in, […]

One of the Fastest-Growing Destinations in the Caribbean This Year? The Cayman Islands

Tourism to the Cayman Islands is surging in early 2025, with the destination posting solid growth across both the stayover and cruise segments in the first three months of the year. In fact, it’s one of the fastest-growing destinations in the Caribbean this year, according to data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization.  According to newly […]

After a Banner Year, St Vincent and the Grenadines Is Seeing More Visitor Growth 

It’s no secret that St Vincent and the Grenadines had its best year ever in 2024, thanks almost completely to the opening of the new Sandals St Vincent resort.  Now, the archipelago continues to see surging tourism numbers, Caribbean Journal has learned. The destination’s stayover arrivals were up 12.9 percent in the first quarter of 2025, […]

Aeroméxico Just Launched a New Daily Flight Between Mexico City and Panama City

From the emerald hills of El Valle to the gleaming towers of Punta Paitilla, Panama is a country that defies simple definition — a crossroads of continents, a global hub with a tropical soul. And now it’s more accessible than ever for travelers from Mexico. Aeroméxico has launched its new nonstop service between Mexico City […]

Bahamas Cruise Passenger Arrivals Keep Climbing 

Cruise arrivals to The Bahamas continue to surge, with the region’s most popular cruise destination showing no signs of slowing down.  The Bahamas reported 2.759 million cruise passenger arrivals in the first quarter of 2025, according to data from the Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization.  That represented an 11.5 percent increase over the same period last […]
About Caribbean

The Caribbean is a special place. There is no more fascinating mix of cultures, people, food, history, art and experience anywhere in the world than in the web of destinations that make up what we know as the Caribbean. Whether you are traveling, moving, living, studying or just interested in learning more, this is the place to go and find the best in Caribbean travel.

Our Caribbean guide has you covered with the most in-depth exploration of the region’s destinations anywhere, from food to hotels to All-Inclusive Resorts to the Best Beach Hotels to rum. For us, the region includes the Bahamas, along with the traditional islands, the Caribbean coasts of Mexico, South America and Central America and CARICOM member states in South America.

With a mix of news, features, video and business, we bring you the region in a holistic way; so if you’re traveling here, you’ll learn, hear and see a lot more about this wonderful place and whether it’s your first time or your 20th trip, you’ll see the region in a new way, from the amazing group of people that make up the Caribbean to informative nuggets of info on business and politics that will help inform your decisions.

And then, of course, there are our famous lists, deeply researched rankings of just about every category of Caribbean Travel, with individual Best Hotels list in every destination; lists of great beaches; place to move, live and retire and even ways to get off the grid.

That’s because here, we love this place, and we’re on the ground in the region all the time finding the best, the most interesting, the newest to make your journeys unforgettable.