Turquoise water is curving into Santa Martha Bay on Curaçao’s western side. Limestone cliffs rise above the sea west of Willemstad. Fishing boats drift through the bay below the Santa Martha lookout point. The roads heading toward Soto pass cactus-covered hills, rocky coves and small beach bars facing the Caribbean. And you’re gazing at all […]
The first thing you feel in Martinique’s Anse d’Arlet is the embrace of a shoreline that seems built for lingering. The bay opens in a soft arc, its water a clear azure that stays calm even as the day warms, drawing swimmers and snorkelers into its gentle shallows. The village rises quietly behind it, a […]
Cruise tourism in Martinique is climbing at a strong pace in 2025, with the French Caribbean island reporting 216,641 cruise passengers from January through June — a 15.5 percent increase over the same period in 2024. The growth underscores Martinique’s expanding presence on the Caribbean cruise map, driven by both homeport and transit calls. Fort-de-France […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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