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This Caribbean Floating Bar Has World-Class Tacos — And You Can Only Get There by Boat

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You come in by boat, cut the engine, and drift into Lindbergh Bay with a floating taco bar ahead of you. The water here is clear enough to see sand patches under the surface as you slow down. Small boats move through the bay. People sit in float seats with drinks in hand. Others climb […]

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The Caribbean Travel Awards 2025

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More than 32 million people visited the Caribbean in 2023, and that number should be eclipsed by the end of this year. In other words, the Caribbean is more popular than ever — deepening its position not just as the world’s premier warm-weather destination but, in our opinion, as the most complex, diverse, vibrant destination on […]

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Antigua, Aruba Top Caribbean Islands for Millennials Right Now

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Before successful Caribbean advisor Amanda Bisack, owner of Travelista Travels,  entered the travel industry, she worked as a hip-hop dancer, commercial print model and actress. Bisack has had spreads in Women’s Health Magazine, People’s, Forbes, Model Airplane, White House Black Market and TIME. And she has shot commercials for a variety of brands such as […]

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The Radisson Aruba is Now a Hilton

By Alexander Britell The Radisson Aruba is now a Hilton. The iconic Morris Lapidus-designed resort on Aruba’s Palm Beach has officially debuted as a Hilton. The 355-room property is now the Hilton Aruba Caribbean Resort and Casino, located on a 15-acre beachfront site. It opened in its new iteration on Wednesday. Above: the opening ceremony on […]


Antigua, Aruba Top Caribbean Islands for Millennials Right Now

Above: an Aruba Airlines plane By the Caribbean Journal staff Aruba Airlines is set to begin scheduled service between Miami and Aruba, according to the Aruba Tourism Authority. The service, which will launch July 2, will include five weekly flights on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, using an Airbus A320 plane. The flights are […]

Aruba Tourism: Strong First Half of 2014

Above: Andicuri Beach in Aruba By the Caribbean Journal staff Aruba received 489,871 tourist stopover arrivals in the first six months of 2014, according to new data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. That represented a 5.3 percent improvement over the first half of 2013, according to the CTO. The number was buoyed by a particularly […]

Aruba Tourism Is Booming

Above: Aruba By the Caribbean Journal staff Tourism to Aruba is booming so far in 2015, according to new data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. The Dutch Caribbean island received 294,411 stopover tourist arrivals in the first quarter of 2015, which represented a 20.1 percent increase over the same period in 2014. While first-quarter eporting […]

Fitch Downgrades Aruba Credit

Above: Aruba By the Caribbean Journal staff Fitch Ratings has downgraded Aruba’s long-term foreign and local currency issuer ratings to BBB- from BBB, the New York-based ratings firm announced. The firm said the island’s sovereign creditworthiness had “deteriorated” since 2009 due to the “negative impact of recent suspensions of operations at the Valero refinery.” But […]

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