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Hyatt Is Opening a New Secrets Resort in Punta Cana, With Swim-Out Suites, a Rooftop Pool, and Farm-to-Table Dining

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The Dominican Republic’s Macao Beach has always felt different. Wide and golden, framed by palms and the Atlantic, it has long been a favorite for surfers and locals looking for a more raw, more natural stretch of greater Punta Cana. Soon, it will be home to something entirely new — an adults-only retreat that looks […]

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The 15 Best Beaches in The Bahamas You’ve Never Heard Of 

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They’re far from major airports, set within destinations that are nowhere near the typical tourist map. And that’s what makes them so spectacular. These are the remote, hard-to-reach beaches you dream about. And they’re all in The Bahamas.  We’ve visited more beaches (and islands) in The Bahamas than any other team of journalists on the […]

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The Winners of the 2024 Bahamas Travel and Sustainability Awards

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There are 700 islands and cays in The Bahamas, covering a surface of area of nearly 5,400 square miles. It is its own world, a travel destination unlike any other in the Caribbean — or the world, for that matter.  With our second annual Bahamas Travel and Sustainability Awards, we sought to highlight the overwhelming […]

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More Daily Flights to This Island in The Bahamas

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It’s perhaps most famous as the childhood home of Sir Sidney Poitier. But in recent years, Cat Island in The Bahamas has been carving out a new identity as an under-the-radar beach destination.  And if you’ve been to the Fernandez Bay Village resort or Greenwood Beach or Old Bight Beach, you get it.  The beaches […]


The Winners of the 2024 Bahamas Travel and Sustainability Awards

From a boom in Grand Bahama to continued growth in islands like Abaco, Andros and Cat Island, The Bahamas is in the midst of a tourism renaissance, according to new data from the country’s Ministry of Tourism.  Last year, foreign air arrivals to The Bahamas grew by 17 percent, with a total of 1.719 million […]

A Must-Visit Music Festival on Cat Island in The Bahamas 

It’s the original musical art form of The Bahamas: Rake ’N Scrape, the percussive, energetic pulse of the 700-island archipelago.  The ingredients are simple: an accordion, a drum and a hand saw; the sound is bold and sonorous, a lively, rhythmic, enchanting sound, one you can’t help but dance to.  It’s the music of Bahamian […]

558-Acre Cat Island Beach Site Lists for $13 Million 

A 558-acre prime beachfront property on Cat Island in the Bahamas has hit the market for $13 million.  The Lucky Mount Acreage is set on the island’s Fine Bay Beach, a pink-sand beach.  It’s listed with Brian Austin of Bahamas Realty.  The property has previously received approval for hotel and casino development with single-family lots, […]

New Cat Island Airport Breaks Ground in The Bahamas

A new airport has broken ground on the island of Cat Island in The Bahamas.  The new multimillion-dollar airport development project will mean an all-new terminal for the island’s New Bight Airport.  The new terminal will serve as a port of entry into The Bahamas, with customs and immigration services.   “The design is modern and […]

Small Caribbean Hotel of the Week: A Beach Escape in The Bahamas

There are beaches, and then there is Old Bight Beach.  Here on the southwestern coast of Cat Island in The Bahamas is a nearly five-mile-long stretch of perfect white sand dotted with casuarina trees.  The water is the kind of sparkling turquoise you can only find in The Bahamas.  This is the kind of beach […]

The 23 Best Caribbean Islands to Visit in 2023

Can you believe it has been nearly three years since the world changed? In that span, the destinations of the Caribbean have undergone a tumultuous, frantic, whirring upheaval, one that turned from total static to what is today an abundant, pulsing, dynamism. When Caribbean islands began reopening just a few months after the onset of the […]

20 Cheap Caribbean Hotels for an Affordable Vacation

Since the onset of the pandemic, driven by tremendous travel demand, hotels around the world have gotten far more expensive. Some, significantly more expensive. Even a Caribbean hotel whose rack rate might have started at $150 per night three years ago could be charging upwards of $400 today; luxury hotels have massively raised their rates, […]

The 25 Best Beach Bars in the Caribbean 2023

There are countless reasons to travel to the Caribbean. But on cold winter afternoons, one image manages to slide into our imaginations more frequently: a cold rum punch at the edge of the Caribbean Sea.  Beach bars just call to so many frequent travelers to the Caribbean, conjuring up dreams of toes-in-the-sand cocktails, endless afternoons […]