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Frontier Airlines Is Launching a New Flight to the Island of Aruba

Caribbean Cruise

Carnival Freedom is Moving to Norfolk

Carnival Cruise Line is bringing one of its most popular ships to Norfolk, Virginia. The Carnival Freedom will reposition from Port Canaveral to Norfolk in May 2027, beginning with a special 15-day Carnival Journeys sailing through the Southern Caribbean. That cruise will call on Aruba, Curacao, Grenada, Barbados, St. Lucia, Antigua, St. Maarten and St. […]

Listings

An Aruba Villa With a Pool for Just Under $700,000

A three-bedroom villa in Aruba has hit the market for $696,000, Caribbean Journal Invest has learned. It’s listed with MPG Real Estate Aruba’s Muna Habash. The villa in Aruba’s Noord nehgibrhood has three bedrooms and two bedrooms, along with a private pool with a waterfall. There’s also a separate apartment with one bedroom and one […]

News

Riu Resorts Is Opening a New All-Inclusive in Cancun This Year

Punta Cana. Jamaica. Aruba. Paradise Island. Riu has 27 different all-inclusive resorts across the Caribbean, and another 22 in Mexico – including eight tin the Cancun area. And after a number of big-time refurbishment projects around the region, Riu is adding yet another new resort in the Caribbean this year, Caribbean Journal has learned. Riu […]

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Hyatt Is Bringing an All-Inclusive Resort to Aruba, And Now It Has an Opening Date

Baby Beach. It’s one of the most stunning stretches of beach in Aruba, far from the tourism hubs of Palm Beach and Eagle Beach, a lovely crescent of shallow turquoise beach just a short drive from San Nicolas, the island’s burgeoning cultural capital. While San Nicolas has become one of the island’s emerging destinations in […]

Riu Resorts Is Opening a New All-Inclusive in Cancun This Year

Travelers keep flocking to Aruba, and the island’s airport is reporting an all-time record for passenger traffic, Caribbean Journal has learned. The island’s Princess Beatrix International Airport reported passenger traffic of 3.2 million, a 14.1 percent increase over 2023. That included 30,604 flights, with seat capacity rising by 15.4 percent to 1.96 million seats in […]

The Best Caribbean Beaches for 2025, From Remote Corners of The Bahamas to Snorkeling Spots in Aruba

We’ve been ranking the best beaches in the Caribbean for more than a decade, in large part because we know how essential beaches are to the Caribbean travel experience (and we’ve visited more Caribbean beaches than any other publication on the planet.) Because no matter what the purpose of your trip to the Caribbean, a […]

St Regis Is Opening Its New Resort This Week on Palm Beach in Aruba

If you know Aruba, you know Palm Beach. It was the original home of tourism on the island, and, in many ways, it remains the “town square” of the island’s tourism district, from its most iconic hotels (including the lovely Boardwalk, one of our favorite stays on the island) to a number of its most […]

Delta Just Started New Flights to Two Caribbean Islands: Aruba and St Maarten

The sugar-white-sand beaches in Aruba. The endless beach bars in St Martin and St Maarten. Two bucket list destinations, two Caribbean islands, two brand-new routes for Delta Air Lines. The fast-growing carrier has officially added new routes to Aruba and St Maarten, both out of an increasingly important source market for the Caribbean: Minneapolis-St Paul, […]

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

You can find the perfect island. You can book the perfect hotel. But your vacation hasn’t really begun until you pull up to your chair with an ice-cold cocktail at the perfect Caribbean beach bar. For all of the wonders and charms of this region, nothing manages to so easily access the hearts of travelers […]

The Cool List: The Caribbean’s Coolest Places to Stay in 2025, From Adventure Resorts to Historic Inns

It was one of the first major guides we at Caribbean Journal ever put together: The Cool List, whose first edition was back in 2013 and which remains an unrivaled curation of unique, character-filled, personality-driven, artful hotels around the Caribbean. Every year, it’s a bit different, with one unifying theme: The Cool List is all […]

eagle beach in aruba with the waves and blue water

GOL Just Started a New Nonstop Flight to Aruba

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 […]

Wyndham Now Has an Adults-Only Hotel in Aruba

The Wyndham brand is now officially back in Aruba, following the transformation of the former Brickell Bay Beach Resort into what is now the Trap by Wyndham Aruba. The adults-only hotel has just under 100 rooms, with amenities ranging from a pool with a swim-up bar to beach service to a shuttle that takes you […]