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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 Premier Film Festival Is Back in St Barth

The Caribbean’s premier film festival is back once again on the French Caribbean island of St Barth. The 26th edition of the St Barth Film Festival runs this week from May 3-6 in Gustavia. Since 1996, the event has become a crossroads for Caribbean films and filmmakers, putting the region’s cinematic excellence on display on […]

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Air Canada Launches First Ever Toronto-Martinique Flights

Air Canada just launched its first-ever flights between Toronto and Martinique, Caribbean Journal has learned. The new service is the “a long-term effort” by Martinique Tourism Commissioner Benedicte di Geronimo. “This connection between The Isle of Flowers and the Canadian economic capital reinforces the presence of Martinique in Canada, which is now our second most […]

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Air France Is Adding New French Guiana Flights

Air France is expanding its network in Latin America and the Caribbean this summer, Caribbean Journal has learned. The carrier is launching a new route next month linking Belem, Brazil with Cayenne in French Guiana. The new service, which kicks off May 5, 2023, will operate once weekly on Air France’s Airbus A320 aircraft. Air […]

Air Canada Launches First Ever Toronto-Martinique Flights

You’re sitting in your own private plunge pool, gazing out a green-hill-lined lagoon, sipping on a ti’ punch. It’s the ultimate French Caribbean afternoon. That’s just another day at one of our favorite places to stay in the French Caribbean: the 16-room Hotel Plein Soleil in Martinique. Martinique doesn’t have any large resorts; it’s a […]

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 ago could be charging upwards of $400 today; luxury hotels have massively raised their rates, […]

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 weekly flights from Miami that stop in both Guadeloupe and Martinique. That means travelers can […]

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, of course), it hasn’t really had anywhere notable to stay. That just changed, however. Chef […]

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, pulsing, dynamism. When Caribbean islands began reopening just a few months after the onset of the […]

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 flight, which takes around three and half hours, is operating four times each week, with […]

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 so many frequent travelers to the Caribbean, conjuring up dreams of toes-in-the-sand cocktails, endless afternoons […]

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 is still one of the major tourist destinations on the island, with a spectacular museum […]