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Punta Cana Is Getting a New Adults-Only All-Inclusive — With 239 Suites, Swim-Up Rooms, and a Wave Pool

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Another adults-only all-inclusive is coming to Punta Cana Playa Bávaro runs for miles along the eastern edge of the Dominican Republic, a stretch of white sand lined with palms and large resorts facing the Caribbean. It’s the center of tourism in Punta Cana, the place most travelers picture when they think about the country’s Caribbean coast. […]

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This Overwater Bar in Bonaire Has Cold Beer, Fish Tacos, and Front-Row Ocean Views

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We love overwater bars. There’s something visceral about walking out over the sea, ordering your drink and looking all around you and seeing only sea. Our favorites range from Turks and Caicos to Nevis, but there’ also a rather special one on the island of Bonaire (a place in the news during this cold patch […]

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Caribbean Photo of the Week: Pink Beach, Bonaire

Pink Beach, Bonaire.

The latest Caribbean Photo comes from Caribbean Journal reader Jan van der Zanden, who sent this lovely shot of Pink Beach on the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire. Have you taken a great photo in the Caribbean? Send it to news@caribjournal.com with CPOTW in the subject line, including your first and last name and the […]

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Bonaire Culinary Team Wins Taste of the Caribbean Competition in Barbados

The Bonaire Culinary Team gets the crown.

Bonaire has earned one of the region’s top culinary honors, taking home the title of Caribbean National Culinary Team of the Year at the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association’s Taste of the Caribbean competition. The event, held alongside the Caribbean Hospitality Industry Exchange Forum in Barbados from Nov. 16–18, brought together chefs and bartenders from across the […]


Caribbean Photo of the Week: Pink Beach, Bonaire

A signature beachfront resort in Bonaire has a new global brand partner. Van der Valk Plaza Beach Resort Bonaire has officially joined the WorldHotels Elite Collection, the premium tier of the global WorldHotels portfolio. It’s, in our view, the best all-inclusive resort on the whole island. The all-inclusive resort, set on a private stretch of sand just south […]

In Bonaire, Cultivating New Hope for Critically Endangered Coral

In another historic breakthrough for Bonaire’s reefs, Reef Renewal Foundation Bonaire (RRFB) has successfully collected spawn from the critically endangered pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) for the first time. The delicate process, which took place last week, marks a lifeline for a species teetering on the edge of functional extinction. The young corals will be transferred […]

Bonaire's Big Travel Summer Continues

With its turquoise waters, legendary dive sites and easygoing Dutch Caribbean vibe, Bonaire has become one of the region’s fastest-growing escapes, with a tourism renaissance for most of the last three years. That demand showed no signs of slowing in Aug. 2025, when the island welcomed 14,435 stayover visitors — a 15.6 percent increase over […]

Bonaire Is Having Its Best Summer Ever

Bonaire is seeing a surge in tourism this summer. The island welcomed 16,653 stayover visitors in July 2025, according to newly released preliminary data from Tourism Corporation Bonaire — a 16.3 percent increase compared to July 2024, when 14,320 visitors arrived that’s the biggest summer growth the island has ever seen. It’s a sign that this coudl be Bonaire’s […]

Planning a Bonaire Vacation? The Island Is Getting More Expensive

It’s one of the fastest-growing destinations in the Caribbean in the last few years. But as Bonaire continues its tourism surge, hotel prices are starting to rise. Hotel stays in Bonaire are costing travelers more in 2025, in other words. Average daily rates in Bonaire rose by 11.5 percent in the second quarter compared to […]

This New Caribbean Flight Connects Bonaire and the Dominican Republic

Calling all island-hoppers. Tourism officials in Bonaire officially welcomed the arrival of Air Century’s inaugural flight from the Dominican Republic on July 9, marking the start of new seasonal service between Santo Domingo and the Dutch Caribbean island. The aircraft, which landed at Bonaire’s Flamingo International Airport, was greeted with a ceremonial flag salute followed […]

The 10 Best Restaurants in Bonaire for 2025

Once, people came to Bonaire for the diving. They still do, of course — this is one of the top underwater playgrounds in the world. But lately, the island’s surface has been stirring up just as much wonder. Because something’s been simmering here. Call it a quiet culinary renaissance, or maybe just a natural evolution: […]

6 Stunning Pink Sand Beaches to Visit in the Caribbean

Ranging in color from blinding ivory to exotic ebony, beaches are some of the Caribbean’s most valuable stock in trade, drawing sand-and-sea lovers from all over the world. But none are as enchanting as those pink-sand beaches, which practically beg to be immortalized on your social feed. They’re few and far between, but their rarity […]

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