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Treasure Beach: A New Barbados Adults-Only Hotel

By Alexander Britell There’s a new way to stay on Barbados’ platinum coast. And it’s rather special. Barbados’ Elegant Hotels has done it again with the debut of the totally transformed adults-only Treasure Beach, a modern but charming, luxurious retreat […]

Flying to St. Barth on Tradewind Aviation

By Alexander Britell You know something’s different when, after checking in, you don’t go through security. You take a side elevator up to a private lounge, waiting until the time when you simply have to walk right down to the […]

A Great Way to Experience the St. Barth Gourmet Festival

With the St. Barth Gourmet Festival three months away, St. Barth Properties is partnering with some of the island’s most luxurious villas for a special package. Guests who book a minimum of seven nights over the festival dates at one […]

VIDEO: Les Ilets de la Plage, St. Barth’s Hidden Gem Hotel

By Alexander Britell St. Barth is the luxury capital of the Caribbean, from neverending lunches at the Eden Rock to lazy afternoons at Tom Beach. But to experience the real St. Barth, to understand what makes this place so overwhelmingly […]

Barbados’ Turtle Beach Adds Two New Culinary Concepts

Turtle Beach, a Barbados all inclusive set on the island’s south coast, recently opened two culinary concepts. Freeze Ice Cream Parlour serves up both traditional and island-inspired ice cream flavors including Rum N’ Raisin, Poncho Cream, Caramel Toffee and Golden […]

11 Caribbean Beach Bars You Should Visit Right Now

If there’s a more quintessentially Caribbean experience than having a rum at a Caribbean beach bar, we haven’t found it. Indeed, it’s the dream of toes-in-the-sand, rum-in-hand afternoons that bring so many travelers to the Caribbean year after year. And […]

Ice Bar: The Coolest Bar in the Caribbean Is on a Cruise Ship

Where’s the coolest bar in the Caribbean? By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor This is definitely the coolest bar in the Caribbean. In fact, a more accurate description would be frigid. How better to characterize the “weather” inside Norwegian Getaway’s […]

Five Events to Visit in St. Barth This Year

St. Barth is rolling out a lineup of events for this year featuring music, film, food, sailing and more. Guests will arrive to find a host of festivals, regattas and cultural adventures all year round. (See the rankings of the […]

VIDEO: The Best Beach Bar in Antigua

Sometimes it’s about a cocktail, or a personality or a view. But the greatest test of a beach bar is this: can you spend all day there? And on that count, Jacqui O’s BeachHouse passes with flying colors. This beach […]

Checking into the Barceló Bavaro Palace in the Dominican Republic

A stay at the Barceló in DR By Susan Barlow CJ Contributor The Dominican Republic’s Playa Bavaro is the most famous (and arguably the best) beach in the country — and it’s also home to a staggering number of resorts, mostly of […]

Rum Journal: At Cayman’s Top Wine Shop, a Haven for Rum

It’s the late evening in Grand Cayman, and the rum is flowing. We’re at a sold-out tasting of Plantation rums, enjoying a seminar on the art of fine rum-making. That’s because, while it goes without saying that the West Indies Wine […]

Barbados’ Must-Visit Summer Carnival: Crop Over

What to know about Barbados’ must-visit event: Crop Over By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor Trinidad’s pre-Lenten Carnival is the Caribbean’s most famous festival, but Crop Over, the mid-summer Bajan bacchanal that traditionally marks the end of the sugar cane […]

Dinner at Cheval Blanc St-Barth Isle de France

FLAMANDS — There are beach restaurants and there are beach restaurants. This is the latter. It’s a cool, breezy summer night on the Flamands sand in St Barth, home to one of the island’s greatest eateries: La Case de l’Isle. […]

How This Hotel Is Celebrating the St Barth Gourmet Festival

It’s one of the Caribbean’s top culinary events: the St Barth Gourmet Festival, now in its third year. The festival brings together some of the best chefs in the world, with this year’s fete helmed by Michelin-star Chef Christian Le […]

St Barth’s Must-Visit Food Festival

For a few days in early November, St Barth will become the center of the culinary world. This year will be the third edition of the St Barth Gourmet Festival, bringing together top chefs, restaurants and hotels for a gastronomic […]

This Caribbean Resort’s New Focus on Wine

St Lucia’s Landings resort has a new food and beverage director with serious wine credentials. The resort has named Eric Toles as its new director of food and beverage, after three years of serving at the tony Cotton House Resort […]

The Caribbean’s First Major Vineyard. Yes — Wine From the Caribbean

Wine? From the Caribbean? And no, we don’t mean tropical fruit wine, from mangos or “ginger wine” from Jamaica. We mean wine — from actual grapes. Made in the Caribbean. While the Caribbean’s rainy climate has often posed an insurmountable […]

This St Barth Hotel Has a New Wellness Program

Wellness a la St Barth By Dana Niland CJ Contributor St Barth’s Le Guanhani hotel is developing new programming in partnership with health and lifestyle expert Amy McDonald. The program, part of the hotel’s 30th anniversary celebration, will kick off […]

Caribbean Home: An Oasis in St Barth

Above: Villa Auréve By the Caribbean Journal staff The latest edition of Caribbean Home heads to a listing by St Barth Properties Sotheby’s International Realty in the French Caribbean’s capital of cool. Villa Auréve, a four-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom villa in the […]

Rum Journal: In Virgin Gorda, a Bar Among the Treetops

Above: the Treehouse at the Rock Cafe in Virgin Gorda (All photos by CJ) VIRGIN GORDA — It isn’t the highest bar in Virgin Gorda, but it’s certainly the tallest. Here, winding through branches, weaving up around the island’s famous […]

Deals of the Week: From Boutique Anguilla to a Villa in St Barth

Our new Deals of the Week feature will bring you our favourite Caribbean travel deals and special packages, from free nights to all-encompassing luxury offers. Here’s the first edition. Boutique travel in Anguilla The Anacaona Boutique Hotel on Anguilla’s West […]

Six Great Hotel Bars in Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo is one of the great nightlife capitals of the Caribbean, and it’s also home to some seriously good hotels — with bars to match. Here are six of our favourites. What are yours? Cibao Bar – MGallery Hostal Nicolas […]

10 Great Restaurants in Barbados

We typically keep these lists to around six or seven restaurants — but the island of Barbados is one of the finest culinary destinations in the region, with a growing number of very interesting restaurants — and there are simply […]

Interview with Barbados Minister of Tourism Richard Sealy

Above: Tourism Minister Richard Sealy (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell The Caribbean tourism sector is in a period of change, as the region seeks to emerge from the global downturn. As Caribbean nations like Barbados look to move beyond the […]

Dominican Republic and Chile Strengthen Relations, With Rum and Wine

Above: Ron Brugal is becoming increasingly popular in Chile By the Caribbean Journal staff With Ron Brugal and Santa Ema wine, the Dominican Republic and Chile discussed the increased trade and economic interaction between the two countries in a ceremony […]

A New Beach Resort Is Coming to This Tiny Island in The Bahamas