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Warwick Bahamas

New Warwick Hotel in the Bahamas Plans October Debut

 A new all-inclusive option in the Bahamas By Sarah Greaves-GabbadonCJ Travel Editor The Warwick Paradise Island Bahamas, an adults only all-inclusive resort, has released introductory rates for the property, which will be the first new development on Paradise Island since …

Tulum Airbnb

These Caribbean Beach Bars Come With Their Own Hotels

 By Sarah Greaves-GabbadonCJ Travel Editor You’re at your favorite Caribbean beach bar enjoying the blissfully mind-numbing effects of your favorite rum drink. The sun is hot, the sand is soft, and refreshingly cool waves lap at your toes. It’d be …

Kali's Beach Bar St Martin

VIDEO: A Legendary Caribbean Beach Bar

 In the beginning, there was Kali. Long before St Martin was one of the Caribbean’s top travel destinations, there was Kali. Just Kali and his beach bar. This is Kali’s, the first beach bar in St Martin when it opened …

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 By Alexander Britell Guadeloupe: the French-Caribbean archipelago that still remains largely a mystery to travelers from the English-speaking world. It is a remarkably diverse place: its main “island” is split between a largely developed (think European style infrastructure) Grande-Terre and …

 St Martin has a surfeit of great beaches: Orient Bay, the bustling beach, Nettle Bay, the lounging one, Grand Case, the delicious one … it goes on and on. But for sheer beauty, you can’t beat Pinel Island, the tiny islet off …

 By Alexander Britell MARTINIQUE — Places of great value don’t find you. You find them. Sometimes it takes a wrong turn, or an extra 30 minutes, or a decision that you won’t stop until you find exactly what you didn’t …

 We all have the beach bars we keep going back to. Maybe it’s because of the beach itself, or that signature rum punch, or because of the food. Some beach bars are more than that. Some are just special. And …

 Above: Cane Garden Bay in Tortola (all photos by CJ) CANE GARDEN BAY — In the heart of Beach Bar City is a place called Paradise. It’s Paradise Club, a beach bar on the sandy stretch of Tortola called Cane …

 Above: Garvey’s Sunshine Shack in Anguilla (All photos by CJ) By Alexander Britell What makes a perfect beach bar? Is it the history? Is it the signature cocktail? The music? The sand? It’s usually a combination of all of these …

 The latest Caribbean Photo comes from Caribbean Journal reader Wayne Cook, who sent in this snapshot of sunset from OJ’s Beach Bar in Antigua. Did you take a great photo of the Caribbean? Send it to news@caribjournal.com with CPOTW in …

 Above: Pinel Island (All photos by CJ) By Alexander Britell PINEL ISLAND — It isn’t an easy choice. Not here, not in the late morning sun with St Martin’s hills towering across the bay. Here on Pinel Island, there is …

 It’s one of the great pleasures of the Caribbean: a rum cocktail under the sun, toes in the sand, fresh-caught seafood on your plate. The Caribbean didn’t invent the beach bar, but it perfected it. And it’s the essence of …

 Above: SALT Plage in St Kitts (All photos by CJ) It’s only opened earlier this year, but SALT Plage, the new beach bar at St Kitts’ Christophe Harbour development, just might be the coolest beach bar on the island. Whether …

 Above: the Beach Bar in St John ST JOHN — It’s one of the first things you see when you reach the harbour of Cruz Bay, St John, US Virgin Islands, when you look past the rolling green hills and …

 Above: the deck at SALT Plage in St Kitts By the Caribbean Journal staff St Kitts, famous for its collection of diverse beach bars on Frigate Bay, has a new beach bar to boast about: SALT Plage. The bar has …

 Above: Monty’s By the Caribbean Journal staff The island of Montserrat is home to a brand-new beach bar in the Marine Village at Little Bay. It’s called Monty’s Dive Centre/Beach Bar, and it’s owned by Monty Burns, a former officer …

 Above: the Soggy Dollar Bar (Photos by William Torrillo) IT WAS one of the hardest choices we’ve had to make all year: deciding what was the best beach bar in the Caribbean for 2013. Earlier in the year, we named our …

 Above: Chevy’s Calypso Bar (all photos by CJ) By Alexander Britell NEVIS — Arms and legs shake, the rum flows freely, the music pulses and, if you concentrate, you can hear the soft reminder of the ocean just a few …

 

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