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The Just-Opened Riu Ventura Brings 705 Rooms, 36 Swim-Up Suites, and a Different Kind of All-Inclusive Experience to Cancun

Cancun’s hotel zone has welcomed a major new arrival with the opening of Riu Ventura, a large-scale, contemporary resort set beside Playa Delfines. The property represents a new direction for RIU in Mexico, pairing the company’s 24-hour all-inclusive concept with features the brand has never offered in the country before. With 705 rooms, a rooftop adults-only […]

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Air France's New Miami-Guadeloupe Flights

There’s a new way to get from Miami to the heart of the French Caribbean. Air France has launched a new nonstop route between Miami International Airport and Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe. The nonstop flights, which take about three and a half hours, are operating twice each week, with service on Tuesdays and Fridays. Air France is […]

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The Club Med Resorts of the Caribbean, Explained

Club Med helped pioneer the concept of all-inclusive vacations in the 1960s and 1970s, and people of a certain age doubtless remember the hotel chain’s jingle from the time: “The Club Med vacation/The antidote for civilization.” Originally a no-frills concept with tented accommodations on the beach, Club Med has changed with the times and now […]

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Air France Relaunches Miami-Guadeloupe Flights

Air France has relaunched nonstop service between Miami and Guadeloupe, Caribbean Journal has learned. The carrier is now running two nonstop flights each week, with service on Tuesdays and Fridays. The flight takes about 3.5 hours, according to Air France. Right now, it’s the only nonstop route from Miami to the Guadeloupe archipelago; American Airlines […]

The Club Med Resorts of the Caribbean, Explained

Luxury cruise line Seabourn is set to homeport its Seabourn Ovation cruise ship out of Miami. Beginning in November, the ship will operate a series of Caribbean itineraries through April 2022. That will include stops in Caribbean destinations including San Juan, Guadeloupe, Jost Van Dyke, St Kitts and Nevis and Antigua, among others. In December, […]

Rum Journal: Copalli, An Outstanding New Rum from Belize

There are jaguars in the cane fields. In the heart of a rainforest in southern Belize, one of the Caribbean’s newest rum companies is doing something very special. It’s a sustainable rum, a sugarcane rum and — and most importantly, a very good rum. It’s called Copalli, and it’s the next big from Belize. Despite a […]

Ritz-Carlton’s First Caribbean Cruise Will Homeport in Puerto Rico

The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection’s first Caribbean cruises will set sail out of Puerto Rico. The Port of San Juan will be home to the high-end cruise line’s first voyages in the region. The Evrima, the first of three company yachts, will make its maiden voyage in the Caribbean in November 2021. ““The selection of the […]

Guadeloupe Is Now Open for Tourism

The French Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe has officially reopened for tourism from the United States, Caribbean Journal has learned. The chain of islands in the Eastern Caribbean is welcoming travelers who show proof of a negative PCR test taken and received within 72 hours before arrival in Guadeloupe. Alternatively, travelers can show proof of a […]

Air France Is Expanding Its Caribbean Flights This Summer

Air France is expanding its service to the Caribbean this summer, Caribbean Journal has learned. That will include up to 14 weekly flights from Paris-Orly Airport to both Guadeloupe and Martinique. Air France will also be flying up to seven weekly flights from Paris-Charles de Gaulle to Martinique; and up to seven weekly flights to […]

Rum Journal: A Powerful Rum From Puerto Rico

There’s a pantheon of “overproof” rums across the Caribbean, a fiery group of sought-after expressions like Grenada’s Rivers Rum and St Vincent and the Grenadine’s aptly, wonderfully named Very Strong Rum. In recent years, the overproof category has seen a degree of premiumization, as more producers have begun releasing cask-strength expressions of their aged product, […]

Air France Expanding Caribbean Flights

Air France is expanding its Caribbean service this summer, Caribbean Journal has learned. The airline will be operating flights from both Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly for the summer season. That will mean seven additional weekly flights to both Martinique and Guadeloupe from Charles de Gaulle. In total, Air France will operate 18 weekly direct […]

The 50 Best Restaurants in the Caribbean - 2021

Restaurants are about more than just food. When we go out to eat, we aren’t doing so because we have to — we do it because we want to. Because restaurants make our lives more interesting. They break up the monotony, they teach us, they bring us together — and they make us happy. And […]