Carnival Cruise Line made its first official call to Ocho Rios on Wednesday as Carnival Sunrise arrived in port, marking the resumption of cruise visits to Jamaica following Hurricane Melissa. Local officials and community partners greeted the ship as operations continued to stabilize across the north coast — with cruise guests officially returning to the […]
By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon, CJ Travel Editor JOST VAN DYKE – Believe the hype. The Painkiller, the much-lauded punch they’ve been serving at Jost Van Dyke’s Soggy Dollar Bar since the seventies, is as good as you’ve heard. Maybe even better. Made with rum, coconut cream, pineapple juice and orange juice, and then topped with a […]
It’s one of those legendary Caribbean cocktails: the Painkiller. What makes it different is that, unlike some of the region’s other cocktail exports, to experience the Painkiller you really have to go to the source: the British Virgin Islands. And while the beautiful archipelago is full of iterations of the cocktail, the most legendary is at […]
Above: the Beach Bar in St John ST JOHN — It’s one of the first things you see when you reach the harbour of Cruz Bay, St John, US Virgin Islands, when you look past the rolling green hills and the crystal-clear turquoise water: a bar. Just at the end of Wharfside on a tiny […]
