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Marriott Is Opening a New “Unscripted” Punta Cana All-Inclusive With Sunrise Yoga, Beach Cabanas and a Speakeasy

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American Airlines Just Launched New Nonstop Flights to a Caribbean Island Known for Its Colorful Capital, White-Sand Beaches, and Cosmopolitan Energy

Curaçao is an island you understand by moving through it. In Willemstad, commuters cross the floating Queen Emma Bridge while water taxis cut across the harbor below. Conversations switch between Papiamentu, Dutch, Spanish and English in the space of a few blocks. Fishing boats still dock near the city center, and neighborhood restaurants fill with […]

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Marriott Just Opened a New Four Points by Sheraton in the Dominican Republic

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It’s always been Punta Cana. The Dominican Republic’s high-volume tourist destination keeps showing growth – but with record-breaking visitor arrivals, the DR’s visitor growth is spreading to new poles. That includes the capital of Santo Domingo, which has been welcoming a host of new flights in recent years, as officials look to ramp up visitation […]

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Marriott Has Big Expansion Plans in Costa Rica, With a New All-Inclusive On the Way

A St. Regis (including a Piza golf course). A Ritz-Carlton Reserve. Now, a major new JW Marriott-branded resort. Marriott has big plans in Costa Rica, and that includes another opening scheduled for next year. The company is adding another major new resort to its portfolio: a new JW Marriott All-Inclusive in Costa Rica, part of […]

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St Regis' New Dominican Republic Resort Is Readying for a May Debut

It’s the most highly-anticipated opening of the year in the Dominican Republic: the St. Regis Cap Cana resort, and the beachfront property’s debut is getting close. The luxury property on Punta Espada in the Cap Cana area of Punta Cana is now taking bookings as early as May 1, Caribbean Journal has learned. The 200-room […]

Marriott Has Big Expansion Plans in Costa Rica, With a New All-Inclusive On the Way

A speakeasy. A rum club. A tap room. A noodle bar. These aren’t the first things you think of when you dream up even the most creative all-inclusive resort. For the newest all-inclusive brand in the Caribbean, that is precisely the point. In less than a month, the W Hotels brand is getting into the […]

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American Airlines Is Launching Flights to an Uncrowded Caribbean Island With White-Sand Beaches, Bonefishing and a New Luxury Resort

There are white sand beaches. There is abundant bonefishing. But the biggest thing about the island of South Caicos in Turks and Caicos is that indescribable feeling of romance, of adventure. The way you feel when you really travel far beyond the beaten path, to those harder-to-reach, remote places on the edges of the Caribbean. […]

Marriott Just Opened a New Luxury Beach Hotel on a Tiny Island in Turks and Caicos

A few weeks ago, the tiny island of South Caicos was far off the travel radar, without any nonstop flights from, well, anywhere, an uncrowded destination with a little more than eight square miles of land mass. Now, it’s smack-dab on the list of buzzy travel hotspots, with a brand-new American Airlines flight from Miami […]

Marriott Is Opening a New Resort in an Under-the-Radar Corner of the Dominican Republic

The pristine beaches. The fishing villages. The old-school charm, the fresh seafood. It’s a side of the Dominican Republic you may have never experienced, far from traditional hotspots like Punta Cana, La Romana and Puerto Plata. It’s another corner of the Dominican Republic, hidden away on a tiny peninsula on the northern coast. This is […]

From Aruba to the Dominican Republic, Marriott Is Making a Big Culinary Push in the Caribbean

It was like a speakeasy. Chef Andres Davila ventured into a mall in downtown Oranjestad, knocked on the door. What was inside was rather stunning. “You go in and it’s like a whole different world,” he says. The tiny local store was Rachell Peterson’s Farm a Cure Fungi, a boutique mushroom farm that has been […]

Marriott’s W Hotels Is Opening Its First All-Inclusive in Punta Cana, And Now It Has an Opening Date

The Living Room. The Wet Deck. The Fit gym. The “whatever/whenever” button, the one that helps with even the most unlikely request. They’re all the signatures of the W brand, which first launched in the late 90s in New York and has retained its hip, energetic soul as one of Marriott’s most sought-after brands. In […]

Marriott Just Added Two New Adults-Only Resorts on Barbados’ Most Famous Stretch of Beaches

The West Coast of Barbados. It’s the island’s capital of glamour, of luxury, elegance and serenity. They call it the Platinum Coast, and whether you’re lazing on Mullins Beach, shopping in Hometown or taking a culinary odyssey at The Cliff, you quickly get the point. What you may not know, however, is that while the […]

Melia Just Opened a New All-Inclusive in the Hotel Zone of Cancun, With Swim-Up Rooms and a Water Park

The beach, the nightclubs, the tacos. But if you want to know the thing Cancun really stands out for, it’s this: the all-inclusive resort. Travel up and down the Hotel Zone and you’ll see a seemingly never-ending strip of all-inclusive resorts. But its not surprising: as we’ve been reporting for years now, all-inclusive is the […]