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This Barbados Hotel Is Exactly 267 Steps From One of the Island’s Best Beaches, With Sunbeds, Cocktails, and a Different Kind of Vacation

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It’s 267 steps from your room to the sand at The Rockley in Barbados. Maybe 268, depending on where you start walking. Maybe 265 if you cut across the pool deck. Either way, it’s the right amount. Enough distance to head back upstairs for another coffee or a colder drink. Close enough that you’re still hearing the water at […]

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Caribbean Room With A View: Bimini Sands Resort and Marina

Above: the view from the Bimini Sands By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor Call it Bimini blue: the ombre hue of the waters that wash this Bahamian out island, morphing from crystalline turquoise near the shore to the deepest navy in the gulfstream waters that stretch to the horizon. For years travelers have come to the […]

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Caribbean Room With a View: Anegada's Lo'Blolly Beach Cottages

Above: Loblolly Bay It’s one of the best-kept secrets in the British Virgin Islands. The island of Anegada is a sandy paradise, with 11 miles of beaches, most of which are entirely empty. There’s nowhere better to access them than at the Lo’Blolly Beach Cottages. Above: the “Green” cottage The property has four full-service cottages, […]

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Caribbean Room With a View: Curacao's Kura Hulanda

IT’S NOT OFTEN you can stay inside a UNESCO World Heritage site — but at the Kura Hulanda Resorts in Curacao, you can do just that. The Dutch colonial property, comprised of a hotel and a lodge & beach club, is a complex of 18th and 19th century buildings in the heart of downtown Willemstad […]


Caribbean Room With a View: Anegada's Lo'Blolly Beach Cottages

ST LUCIA might lead the Caribbean in spectacular views. Its towering pitons are magical to look at, and there are few better vantage points than the “Sanctuaries” at the Jade Mountain resort. At the peak of all the hotel’s rooms, though, are its “Galaxy” Infinity Pool Sanctuaries — which will make you feel like you’re, […]

Caribbean Room With a View: Grenada's Laluna Resort

Above: a Cottage Suite (Photos: Laluna) IT’S ALMOST ALWAYS the first thing we do when we get to a hotel room in the Caribbean. We head out to the balcony (if there is one, of course) and look at the view. So Caribbean Journal Travel’s newest feature, Caribbean Room With a View, will try to […]

Caribbean Room With a View: Peter Island Resort, British Virgin Islands

Above: the Falcon’s Nest villa at Peter Island Resort ON A CLEAR DAY, you can see all the way to St Croix. High above the Caribbean Sea, the Peter Island Resort’s villas offer some of the most spectacular vistas in the region. The property is set on an 1,800-acre private island (with five beaches) within […]

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