You wake up, you head for the sand. Then you do it again. Some Caribbean vacation aren’t about striking statements or grand gestures. They’re not always about luxury — or, that is to say, they’re about another kind of luxury: the perfect beach day. It’s that feeling of stepping onto warm sand with nothing on […]
By Joe Pike, Special Contributor to CJI A new, roughly 2,000-room Hard Rock Hotel & Casino to be built in Jamaica’s St. James Parish is awaiting word from the government on whether it will be granted a license to operate a casino. At a media breakfast hosted by the Jamaica Tourist Board in New York […]
Jamaica has more than 7,500 new hotel rooms set to come on stream in the next three years, according to Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett. There are a number of major hotel projects “slated for implementation” between 2021 and 2023, Bartlett said. That includes a 2,000-room project by Princess Hotels in Negril; 1,700 rooms at the […]
Frontier Airlines is ramping up its expansion to the Dominican Republic with a new route from Miami to Punta Cana, Caribbean Journal has learned. Frontier will be launching new twice-weekly flights between Miami and Punta Cana beginning on March 8. The nonstop flights will be operating on Mondays and Fridays. “We eagerly look forward to […]
