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This St Croix Adults-Only Hotel Has a Beach, a Rooftop Terrace, and Perfect Pool Days

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The west end of St. Croix moves at a different speed, and Frederiksted has always been its anchor. The water stays calm here, the shoreline opens wide, and the town feels lived-in rather than staged. Right along that waterfront sits The Fred, an adults-only hotel built directly into the fabric of the place. It doesn’t […]

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Cancun Pushes Pack Boat Show to December

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The Cancun International Boat Show has been postponed to December, organizers announced this week. The show had initially been scheduled for July. The show will now be held from Dec. 3-5, Caribbean Journal has learned. “We have made the difficult decision to postpone the Cancun International Boat Show,” organizers said in a statement. “The health […]

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Cancun Is Hosting Its First-Ever Boat Show

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Cancun is set to host its first-ever international boat show this summer, Caribbean Journal has learned.  The Mexican Caribbean hotspot will play host to the Cancun International Boat Show and Marine Expo from Dec. 3-5, 2021. The marina will be set at Marina Puerto Cancun, set within the increasingly popular Puerto Cancun development (now home […]

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In The Bahamas, Rediscovering Abaco by Boat

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There’s no one on the beach at Matt Lowe’s Cay, just a row of dancing palm trees.  The water is that unmistakable cerulean that you only find in the Sea of Abaco, a shade unique in The Bahamas, a destination with its own encyclopedia of blues.  There’s too much of a chill to take the […]


Cancun Is Hosting Its First-Ever Boat Show

Le Carbet: that little corner of Martinique’s northwestern coast near Saint Pierre, a quaint fishing village that’s turned into one of the Caribbean’s coolest beach towns.  And the place that largely kicked off Le Carbet’s renaissance was Guy Ferdinand’s Le Petibonum, a Mecca for beach bar lovers, a constantly-evolving destination for food, rum and French […]

In Tortola, a Must-Visit Caribbean Beach Town

By Bob Curley CJ Contributor Most people tend to visit Tortola in the BVI by boat, whether that’s on a yacht charter offered by The Moorings or another charter company or, increasingly, as day visitors from cruise ships. There are no mega resorts on Tortola, and the small hotels and villas tend to be scattered […]

How to Live Right on the Water in Turks and Caicos

By the Caribbean Journal staff Turks and Caicos has quietly become one of the Caribbean’s centers for luxury real estate development — and now there’s yet another project on the way. This time it’s The Launch, the newest addition to Providenciales’ Long Bay beach, a stretch of sand made famous by The Shore Club resort. The […]

Sunsail Adding New Catamarans to Caribbean Fleet

By the Caribbean Journal staff Luxury boat charter firm Sunsail is adding a pair of new Lagoon catamarans to its Caribbean fleet, Caribbean Journal has learned. The company has added two new Lagoon-made models: the Sunsail 464 (Lagoon 46) and the Sunsail 424 (Lagoon 42), which will complement Sunsail’s existing fleet of Robertson and Caine […]

VIDEO: Finding Paradise in Abaco

By Guy Britton It’s a short boat ride to Tahiti Beach from Elbow Cay. But when you get to this secret sandbar you’ve truly found paradise, here in the heart of the Abaco chain of The Bahamas.  It’s a thin, shallow stretch of sand in a sea of Bahamian turquoise, the perfect place to spend […]

The World’s Best Boat Shoes

“These are the perfect boat shoes,” I said to myself, in moments moving from the pool into a marble-floored cigar bar. When you travel to the Caribbean as much as I do, you need shoes that are versatile, stylish and, more importantly, amphibious. Such shoes are best available at shoe hero and you must definitely […]

A New Way to Sail Around the BVI

By the Caribbean Journal staff Sailing around the British Virgin Islands on a charter boat is one of the ultimate Caribbean getaways. But if you’re a solo traveler, a couple or a small group, it’s not always practical or easy to charter a whole boat. That’s why Sunsail has launched a new kind of sailing […]

The Caribbean’s First Pizza Boat

A floating pizzeria? In a spot off the southeastern coast of St Thomas, US Virgin Islands, it’s a reality. Pizza Pi, which debuted in Christmas Cove last year, is the Caribbean’s first-ever pizza boat. The brainchild of award-winning chef and culinary judge Tara Bouis, Pizza Pi is anchored in Christmas Cove Great St James Island, […]