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Small Caribbean Hotel of the Week: A Sanctuary in Martinique

Air France Is Making It Easier to Fly From Miami to Martinique

Air France is making it easier to fly between Miami and Martinique, Caribbean Journal has learned. The French carrier is adapting the schedule of its Pointe-a-Pitre to accommodate customers between Miami and Martinique. Beginning March 30, there will be two …

20 Cheap Caribbean Hotels for an Affordable Vacation

Since the onset of the pandemic, driven by tremendous travel demand, hotels around the world have gotten far more expensive. Some, significantly more expensive. Even a Caribbean hotel whose rack rate might have started at $150 per night three years …

The Caribbean’s Newest Beach Hotel Is In Martinique

It’s one of the coolest beach towns anywhere in the Caribbean: Le Carbet on the northern Caribbean coast of the island of Martinique. While the town abounds with great eateries, beach bars, local shopping (and the world-class Rhum Neisson distillery, …

The 23 Best Caribbean Islands to Visit in 2023

Can you believe it has been nearly three years since the world changed? In that span, the destinations of the Caribbean have undergone a tumultuous, frantic, whirring upheaval, one that turned from total static to what is today an abundant, …

The 25 Best Beach Bars in the Caribbean 2023

There are countless reasons to travel to the Caribbean. But on cold winter afternoons, one image manages to slide into our imaginations more frequently: a cold rum punch at the edge of the Caribbean Sea. Beach bars just call to …

American Airlines Resumes Nonstop Martinique Flights

American Airlines has relaunched its nonstop service between Miami and Martinique, Caribbean Journal has confirmed. After a brief hiatus during the shoulder season, American is once again operating flights between Miami International Airport and Martinique’s Aime Cesaire International Airport. The …

Caribbean Moment: The Sound of Sunset in Martinique

It’s one of the most charming little towns in the Caribbean: Saint Pierre, the northern village in Martinique that was once the “Paris of the Caribbean” before it was largely destroyed in a volcanic eruption in 1902. Today, the town …

St Barth Festival Crowns Best Rums in the Caribbean

It began with a rooftop, oceanfront tasting of ultra-rare Martinique rum at St Barth’s magnificent Le Barthelemy Hotel and Spa. It concluded with a rum festival right at the water’s edge in Gustavia, bookended by superyachts. And in between, the …

Martinique’s French Coco Hotel is Reopening

Martinique’s French Coco Hotel is reopening its doors in November, Caribbean Journal has learned. The luxury boutique hotel will begin welcoming back guests on Nov. 18, the property confirmed. “We are all prepared and delighted to welcome you back to …

In Martinique, a Legendary Caribbean Beach Bar

I’m looking out to the sea off Le Carbet, tasting a selection of Rhum Agricole from Martinique’s newest distillery, Baie de Tresor, a handful of bottles sitting on a barrel right on the beach. I had some accras to start, …

17 Great Caribbean Beaches You Can Only Reach By Boat

They’re tucked away in tiny corners of the Caribbean, set off far in the middle of the sea, hidden beneath cliffs. They’re those rarefied beaches that are a bit harder to reach, the ones you can’t fly to, the ones …

Club Med’s Bahamas All-Inclusive Resort Reopens This Week

For years it was arguably the signature all-inclusive resort in The Bahamas: the Club Med Columbus, the beach resort on the remote island of San Salvador. And now, for the first time since the onset of the pandemic, the property …

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The Caribbean’s Best Beach Bar Beaches

Who doesn’t love a great beach bar? What about an entire beach filled with them? Travel across the Caribbean and you’ll find them, single stretches of sand teeming with beach bars, often all right in a row — beach bars …

5 Secret Caribbean Beach Hotels to Try Right Now

There’s nothing like a Caribbean hotel that’s right on the sand. There’s nothing standing between you and a blissful morning bobbing in the ocean, lazing at the edge of the waves, listening to the Caribbean’s original album. Sure, you can …

A New Caribbean Airline Is Coming to Martinique

Charter firm ETF Airways is launching a new airline in the Caribbean, Caribbean Journal has learned. The company has announced plans to bring a new carrier to the region, based in Martinique. It’s called Fly-Wi, and the company will begin …

Martinique Kicks Off Cruise Season

The 2022-2023 cruise season has officially begun on the French Caribbean island of Martinique. The island welcomed its first ship of the season this week at Fort-de-France’s Pointe Simon Cruise Terminal, a visit by Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Equinox ship. A …

Antigua and Barbuda Just Lifted All of Its Travel Restrictions

The newest Caribbean destination to waive all of its travel health restrictions? Antigua and Barbuda, one of the Caribbean’s booming tourism destinations. The twin-island hotspot just announced that travelers no longer needed to show proof of vaccination or a negative …

The Joy of the Ti’ Punch, the Ultimate Caribbean Rum Cocktail

It’s the purest expression of sugarcane in spirit form: rhum blanc, or white rhum agricole. Unaged white rum made from pure pressed sugar cane juice is as close as you can come to the cane: a raw, visceral, complex spirit …