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Caribbean Photo of the Week: Enjoying the View on Grace Bay Beach

The latest Caribbean Photo comes from Caribbean Journal reader Gary Gardiner, who sent this lovely photo from his stay at the Palms resort on Grace Bay Beach in Turks and Caicos. Have you taken a great photo in the Caribbean? Send it to news@caribjournal.com with CPOTW in the subject line, including your first and last […]

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

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 […]

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A Legendary Caribbean Chef Just Opened a New Eatery in Martinique (With a Rum Bar, Too)

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. […]

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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 […]

A Legendary Caribbean Chef Just Opened a New Eatery in Martinique (With a Rum Bar, Too)

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, […]

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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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, […]

Air Canada Is Adding More Flights to a Caribbean Island Famous for Its Rum, Its Food and Its Volcano

The beaches. The rum. The cuisine. The volcano. There are quite a few layers to the Caribbean island of Martinique, the French Caribbean department that’s home to more rum distilleries than anywhere else on earth, some of the region’s most impressive gastronomy and a history that includes the most impactful volcanic eruption of the 20th […]

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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 […]

Rum Journal: This 12-Year-Old Rum Is a Taste of Grenada

Martinique. Cuba. Guyana. Guadeloupe. Barbados. Puerto Rico. When you think of legendary Caribbean rum-making markets, these are some of the first names that come to mind. But hidden away in the southeastern Caribbean is another one that should be on your radar: Grenada. The lush, fertile island has long been a haven for great rums […]