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Saint Lucia Has a New Kind of Luxury Resort, With Beachfront Villas, Private Pools and Butler Service

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Saint Lucia’s new Sapphire Sands Villas brings a villa-first luxury resort to Reduit Beach, with flexible beachfront accommodations, private plunge pools and around-the-clock butler service. Sapphire Sands Villas is now open on Reduit Beach in Saint Lucia, and the new property from Bay Gardens Resorts is something notably different for both the island and the […]

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The Increasingly Hip South Coast of Barbados Has a Very Cool New Boutique Hotel

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Barbados’ South Coast, often hailed as the island’s “capital of cool,” has welcomed an exciting new addition to its hospitality scene: The Rockley. This vibrant boutique hotel, a reimagining of the former South Beach Hotel, offers travelers an immersive experience into Bajan culture and the lively local community. ​The Rockley+8Caribbean Journal+8The Rockley+8 Located in the […]

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Puerto Rico Has a Colorful New Boutique Hotel 

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The Condado neighborhood of San Juan, Puerto Rico is one of the most vibrant urban areas in the Caribbean, from luxury shopping to high-end eateries to resorts and casinos. Now it’s home to another new boutique hotel, and it’s one of the most colorful hotels on the San Juan hotel scene.  Choice Hotels’ Ascend Hotel […]

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The Best New Boutique Hotel in the Caribbean Is In St Kitts

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They call it “luxury with no footprint.” You understand it the moment you walk into Sunset Reef in St Kitts, the island’s newest hotel and arguably the most exciting new hotel in the Caribbean.  There’s no front desk: check-in means taking you straight to your room, eliminating the typically arduous arrival experience that you find […]


Puerto Rico Has a Colorful New Boutique Hotel 

For years, it’s been something of a well-guarded secret: the eminently luxurious Calabash hotel in Grenada.  And while the 30-room boutique retreat has been around for nearly four decades, it’s constantly reinventing itself.  That includes a recently-completed renovation to the resort’s Deluxe Suites. The 700-square-foot rooms, which include separate living and bedroom areas and indulgent […]

Margaritaville Is Opening a Boutique Beach Resort in Belize

Jimmy Buffett’s fast-expanding resort empire is adding another Caribbean resort, this time in Belize.  And the new Margaritaville Beach Resort Ambergris Caye is officially taking reservations, Caribbean Journal has learned.  It’s a different kind of Margaritaville, a decidedly boutique-style resort that is opening its doors in “early 2023,” according to Margaritaville, with 55 suites, three […]

This is the Coolest Boutique Hotel in Aruba 

You wake up, slide your door open and peer out directly at the sand and the calm froth of Aruban blue. This is unlike any other place to stay in Aruba.  In a sea of larger, mostly high-rise resorts, it’s a sleek, crisply-designed boutique hotel, breezy and hip, unpretentious and endlessly chic.  This is the […]

The 15 Best Luxury Boutique Hotels in the Caribbean 2022

Being a boutique hotel isn’t just about size. Sure, the hotels on this list, all of which have 40 rooms or less, are not big.  But boutique is about more than that. It’s about character, about personality; about identity.  It should be fashionable and stylish, cool and unique.  The first “boutique” hotels originated in urban, […]

A New Boutique Resort Just Opened in Saint Lucia

There’s a new boutique resort on the island of Saint Lucia, Caribbean Journal has learned.  It’s called Sol Sanctum Wellness Hotel and Studio, and it’s all about wellness.  The property is home to eight guest rooms, with a decor and aesthetic inspired by Vedic architecture, according to the resort.  Each of the rooms comes with […]

In Antigua, a 17th Century Mansion Becomes a Boutique Hotel

One of Antigua’s oldest properties is set to become the island’s newest hotel early next year.  It’s called the Weatherills Hotel, and the family-owned boutique hotel is set in an historic, restored 17th-century colonial mansion.  The property, tucked amid 40 acres of gardens in northern Antigua, has a total of seven bedrooms.  That’s along with […]

There’s a New Adults-Only “Inn” in the British Virgin Islands 

It’s always been one of the most sought-after little islands in the Caribbean: pristine Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands.  And while the island is best known for developments like Oil Nut Bay and the new iteration of the Bitter End Yacht Club, there’s another new addition to the island: an inn.  It’s called […]

Eleuthera Boutique Hotel Heads to Auction

The Hut Pointe Inn, a boutique hotel set on an historic estate in Eleuthera, The Bahamas, is headed to auction.  The property is currently listed for $2.6 million. Bidding opens Nov. 5 through Concierge Auctions, which is partnering on the auction with Bahamas-based Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate MCR Bahamas.  “The site has a […]