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Barbados Has a Stunning Nature Sanctuary With an Inland Lake, Colorful Wildlife, and the Island’s Last Mangrove Forest

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It’s filled with parties, watering holes and a buzzing soundtrack. Everyone seems to be chirping about something. But this isn’t Barbados’ St. Lawrence Gap, although that’s just a few minutes away.  This is the Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary, and it’s a vibrant, colorful, dynamic portal to the island’s natural world — and one of the best examples […]

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Beaches, Sailing, Island Hopping: Travelers Are Flocking Back to the British Virgin Islands

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Pusser’s. Loblolly. Cooper. Callwood. Soggy. There are quite a lot of one-word terms that immediately evoke strong feelings about the British Virgin Islands. Now there’s another word: rebirth. The BVI is in the midst of a full-fledged travel renaissance, and the beloved archipelago just saw a visitor total it hadn’t welcomed since before Hurricane Irma […]

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From Belize to Grenada, 10 Little Caribbean Beach Resorts to Visit Right Now 

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There are different resorts for different vacations, different tastes, different moods. For some, there’s something delicious about a pint-sized, tiny Caribbean resort, where the emphasis is on the intimate, the serene. Where the soundtrack isn’t a piped-in DJ set, but the gentle shaking of palm trees.  At these 10 resorts scattered all over the Caribbean, […]

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Rare Jost Van Dyke Development Parcel on the Market for $20 Million 

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It’s most famous as the tiny island home of legendary beach bars like Foxy’s and the Soggy Dollar Bar: Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands.  The island is home to just a handful of accommodations (most notably the new boutique hotel called The Hideout), and has seen little development in the modern era.  […]


From Belize to Grenada, 10 Little Caribbean Beach Resorts to Visit Right Now 

It is one of the Caribbean’s most alluring pilgrimage spots: the Soggy Dollar Bar on Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands, a beach bar that is in the pantheon of the region’s greatest watering holes.  And for more than a half century, it was accompanied by a hotel: the Sandcastle, a boutique beach […]

The Cool List: the Coolest Hotels in the Caribbean for 2023

It’s hard to believe the first edition of our landmark Cool List was published 11 years ago. Today, the Caribbean Journal Cool List is still the annual authority on the Caribbean’s coolest, most creative, singular, buzzy places to stay. That continues to be the case with our 11th edition, with the Cool List 2023 featuring […]

A Legendary Caribbean Beach Bar Hotel Is Back in the BVI 

The Caribbean’s most legendary beach bar hotel has a long-awaited reopening date, Caribbean Journal has learned.  The Sandcastle at Soggy Dollar, the boutique beach hotel at the world-famous Soggy Dollar Bar on Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands, will begin welcoming back guests on May 15, the Soggy Dollar confirmed.  “We are very […]

From the Cayman Islands to Jamaica, 15 Tiny Beach Resorts to Try

Tucked-away bungalows on a minuscule island in Cayman. A secret oasis in St Barth. An eco-retreat on a perfect stretch of white sand. These are the tiny beach resorts we all dream about during months of endless blizzards.   So what do we mean by tiny beach resort? The formula is simple. The hotel has […]

These 20 Caribbean Resorts Have Private Plunge Pools You’ll Never Want to Leave

You open your patio door, and it’s right there: a shimmering plunge pool just for you. No kids splashing nearby. No crowded loungers. Just your own stretch of serenity — steps from the sand, wrapped in quiet, tropical air. This is the new Caribbean luxury: private plunge pools made for couples, for solitude, for morning […]

The BVI’s Jost Van Dyke Has Its First Luxury Hotel 

There’s a new luxury hotel on one of the most beloved little islands in the Caribbean: Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands.  Jost, as it’s affectionately known, has long been famous for its enviable collection of world-famous beach bars, from the renowned Soggy Dollar Bar to the legendary Foxy’s.  And while the island […]

The Ultimate Caribbean Beach Bar Hotel Is Making a Comeback 

It’s hard to think of a more legendary beach bar in the Caribbean than Soggy, as Jost Van Dyke’s bucket-list British Virgin Islands beach bar is affectionately known.  And while the Soggy Dollar Bar long ago completed its comeback from the storms of 2017, one of its essential components did not.  But later this year, […]

Windstar Expanding in the Caribbean, Adding Cruises From Miami 

Small-ship cruise line Windstar is expanding in the Caribbean, including its first-ever homeport in Miami.  The company is adding a new itinerary in the winter of 2023: Beach Fun and Sun: a Caribbean Getaway, that will feature seven days in Caribbean ports including St Maarten, Antigua, St Barth, Anguilla, Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Gorda and […]

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