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Saint Lucia Has a New Kind of Luxury Resort, With Beachfront Villas, Private Pools and Butler Service

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Saint Lucia’s new Sapphire Sands Villas brings a villa-first luxury resort to Reduit Beach, with flexible beachfront accommodations, private plunge pools and around-the-clock butler service. Sapphire Sands Villas is now open on Reduit Beach in Saint Lucia, and the new property from Bay Gardens Resorts is something notably different for both the island and the […]

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Discovering a New All-Inclusive Overwater Bar in Jamaica

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By Tim Cotroneo CJ Contributor Sandals revolutionized the region’s overwater experience when it debuted its overwater villas at the Sandals Royal Caribbean in Jamaica, the first-ever overwater bungalows in the English-speaking Caribbean. And now they’re at it again, with another kind of overwater expansion, this time at the Sandals Montego Bay. This is the new […]

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Sandals Opens an Overwater Bar in Montego Bay

By the Caribbean Journal staff Sandals has already taken the overwater bungalow concept into the Caribbean — and now it’s going further. The Caribbean resort brand has debuted a new overwater bar at its Sandals Montego Bay resort in Jamaica, the company said this week. The new Latitudes Overwater Bar has 360-degree ocean views from its […]

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The 10 Best Overwater Bungalow Resorts to Visit

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It’s one of the great fantasy vacations for every traveler — staying in an overwater bungalow. There’s just something about being surrounded by sea, by waking up and hearing nothing but the waves, seeing nothing but sparkling blue. And while the best overwater bungalow resorts were always focused in Polynesia, the Caribbean now teems with […]


Sandals Opens an Overwater Bar in Montego Bay

By Alexander Britell There’s a new way to stay in an overwater bungalow in the Caribbean. The El Dorado Maroma resort is planning to debut new overwater bungalow suites at its Riviera Maya property in September. The new Palafitos over-the-water suites, located on Maroma Beach on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, will open Sept. 1, according to the […]

Sandals to Open Overwater Bungalow Suites in Jamaica

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor Who hasn’t dreamt of a romantic idyll in an overwater suite? But if Bora Bora is beyond your budget, you’ll be thrilled to hear that Sandals Resort is bringing the dream within reach, announcing the debut of a clutch of overwater suites at Sandals Royal Caribbean in Jamaica. On […]

5 Caribbean Overwater Bungalow Hotels

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor You wake up with just the sound of the waves, in touch with the elements. It’s your own aquatic paradise. But the overwater bungalow fantasy isn’t limited the Pacific — there are a handful of tucked-away hotels in the Caribbean offering precisely that. All you have to do it […]

VIDEO: An Overwater Caribbean Spa

There are spa treatments and there are spa treatments. This is surely the latter — the overwater bungalows at the Fern Tree Spa at Jamaica’s Half Moon resort. They’re the perfect place for a breezy, oceanside massage — or simply beautiful spots for watching the sea. Treatments range from “Six Senses Marine Stone Indulgence Facial” to […]

A New Overwater Bungalow Hotel Is Coming to the Caribbean

By the Caribbean Journal staff There’s a new hotel coming to the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba, and it will have something very rare in the Caribbean: overwater bungalows. The 126-suite Zoëtry Isla di Oro will be one of the only resorts in the Caribbean with overwater suites. The all-inclusive hotel will be located about […]