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Puerto Rico Extends Discover Puerto Rico Contract Through 2033

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Puerto Rico is locking in continuity for its tourism promotion strategy. Governor Jenniffer González Colón announced a five-year extension of Discover Puerto Rico’s destination marketing contract, a move that will keep the organization in place through 2033 and reinforce the island’s long-term approach to international tourism growth. The announcement came during the International Tourism Trade […]

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Martinique Is One of the Caribbean's Fastest-Growing Cruise Destinations Right Now

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Martinique is surging into the upper ranks of Caribbean cruise destinations. The French Caribbean island reported a nearly 11 percent increase in cruise arrivals for the 2024–2025 season, rising from about 421,000 to more than 465,000 embarking and disembarking passengers across more than 200 ship calls. The growth underscores Martinique’s fast-rising appeal as both a […]

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The Best Hotel in Martinique Has Private Plunge Pools, a Walkable Beach Town, and Gourmet Dining

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Maybe it was the mushroom risotto. Or the amuse bouche, a fish bisque. Or was it the tree frog soundtrack? Or the white-lit plunge pools in every room? Martinique’s French Coco will instantly enchant you — but it’s hard to pinpoint precisely which feature is the most memorable. At a boutique hotel, that usually means […]

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The Caribbean’s Best New Rooftop Bar Sits Above a 150-Year-Old Beachfront Rum Distillery 

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There was a rum distillery here a century and a half ago. Today, it’s a sugarcane memory, steps from the beach on the eastern coast of Martinique. But there’s still rum here, in more ways than one.  The Hardy family has been making rum in some form for more than five generations, and while the […]


The Best Hotel in Martinique Has Private Plunge Pools, a Walkable Beach Town, and Gourmet Dining

Maybe you’ve tried the foie gras-banana. Or the swordfish. Or just tried one of the best ti’ punches anywhere. If you’ve been to one of Guy Ferdinand’s establishments, you know.  And now there’s another one: Ferdinand has done it again: the legendary chef from Martinique has added the newest hotspot to his growing portfolio: Aquarium.  […]

This is the Best Rum Bar in the Caribbean 

It’s small, intimate, as much a library as a bar. The shelves are filled with rare bottling of the Caribbean’s greatest rums. There’s a walk-in humidor around the corner. A small bar counter. Beautiful leather chairs.  If you dreamed up a rum bar in the depths of your imagination, it would look exactly like this. Here, […]

This Beach Town Is a Laid-Back Getaway With a Famous Rock, Wild Waves, and French Caribbean Charm

Le Diamant is alive. It starts before you arrive — a winding drive through banana trees and old Creole homes, the Caribbean Sea shimmering just beyond the hills. Then it hits you: that moment when the town opens up and the beach stretches out in front of you, long and wide and unbothered. You feel […]

Martinique: The Caribbean Island Most Americans Still Overlook

The beaches. The food. The rainforests. The bakeries. The art. The Caribbean island of Martinique remains one of the great undiscovered destinations in the region for American travelers, and now it has regular flights this summer from Miami. Americans, you see, have yet to explore the layered, diverse tourism product on this island in any […]

These Caribbean Islands Have the Best Snorkeling— Here’s Where to Go

There’s no better entry point to the Caribbean’s underwater world than snorkeling. You don’t need a certification. You don’t need a boat. All you need is a mask, a pair of fins, and a sense of wonder. Then you’re off—floating above coral gardens, chasing shafts of light, face to face with sea turtles and parrotfish. […]

You’d Never Guess These Caribbean Islands Are Great for Surfing

You don’t usually think Caribbean when you think surfboard — but maybe you should. It’s out there, just beyond the rum punches and beach loungers — a different side of the Caribbean, where the Atlantic delivers real swell, where the wind pushes into long bays and hidden beaches, and where surfers, both local and wandering, […]

This Tiny Caribbean Hotel Has Plunge Pools, Lagoon Views and Floating Breakfasts 

It’s not a secret. We love plunge pools. At Caribbean Journal, we like to say that a private plunge pool is the greatest amenity at any hotel, and we’ve never seen that proposition disproven.  That’s why our latest featured Tiny Hotel is a lovely little 16-room boutique on the Atlantic coast of Martinique, where nearly […]

This Martinique Hotel Has a Bucket-List Caribbean Overwater Bar

If you know us, you know we love overwater bars. No, not beach bars (though we love those, too). We mean bars that are perched right above the water, offshore, accessed only by a small deck or bridge. It means you’re surrounded.  While we loved the overwater options on a recent trip to Belize’s Ambergris […]