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Small Caribbean Hotel of the Week: Rabot Hotel, Saint Lucia  

 Our new regular feature, the Small Caribbean Hotel of the Week, takes you on a journey across some of the most delightful, memorable “small: properties in the Caribbean.  The Caribbean hotels we’ll be featuring will typically be those with fewer …

In Jamaica, the Caribbean’s Ultimate Swim-Up Suites

 What is a “rondoval”? The dictionary description of the word this marketing term comes from is “rondavel,” a round Southern African building with a peaked roof. But at the Sandals South Coast resort in Jamaica, it might just be called …

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12 Caribbean Resorts with Swim-Up Rooms

 Skiers know that the best places to stay are slopeside, where they have direct access to the trails. The tropical equivalent is the swim-up room, where you can step outside and right into the warm waters of a swimming pool. …

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 As major hotel companies around the world adapt their properties to the new realities of travel, the Caribbean’s most famous resort brand, Sandals, is doing just that. Sandals Resorts has announced a major new health and safety measures it says …

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 As major hotel brands begin to announce dramatic changes to their cleaning practices, it was only a matter of time before Airbnb did the same. The homesharing giant is launching a new “Advanced Clean Initiative” to change standards of hygiene …

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 The Cayman Islands has topped the 7,000-room milestone, tourism officials told Caribbean Journal this week.  The destination has added more than 1,000 new rooms in the last three years, with the condominium and villa categories accounting for 73 percent of …

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 By the Caribbean Journal staff Saint Lucia’s popular Bay Gardens Beach Resort and Spa is nearing the completion of a major renovation process. The 78-room property has completely refurbished all 18 garden-view rooms, along with 24 beachfront rooms and 20 …

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 By the Caribbean Journal staff Hotel construction in the Caribbean-Mexico region continues to boom, according to the latest numbers from analytics firm STR. The latest pipeline data for the Caribbean-Mexico region showed 31,968 rooms in construction across 155 projects in …

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 By the Caribbean Journal staff Fast-expanding resort company AMResorts is expanding in Curacao, Caribbean Journal has learned. The Apple Leisure Group subsidiary has signed a resort management deal to transform the Hiltlon Curacao into the new Dreams Curacao Resort, Spa …

jamaica all-inclusive megaresort

 By the Caribbean Journal staff A long-in-the-works megaresort development has officially broken ground in Jamaica. It’s called Amaterra, and it will be one of the country’s largest all-inclusive resorts, set in the heart of the fast-growing parish of Trelawny near …

hilton trinidad makeover

 By the Caribbean Journal staff Port of Spain’s Hilton Trinidad has completed a property-wide “refresh” project, Caribbean Journal has learned. The hotel’s redesign was inspired by the hotel’s 1962 architecture, featuring upgrades to public areas, rooms, dining concepts and a …

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 By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean is missing a huge opportunity to reap the economic benefits of tourism, Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association President Frank Comito said this week. Empty hotel rooms are costing the region billions of dollars …

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 By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean-Mexico hotel construction pipeline is booming. There were 107 hotel properties comprising 22,325 rooms in construction last month in the wider Caribbean-Mexico region, a 41.5 percent jump compared to the same period last year. …

 By the Caribbean Journal staff Holland America Line’s new state-of-the-art cruise ship is set for a December debut. The highly-anticipated Nieuw Statendam will have a capacity for 2,666 guests, with eight more staterooms than its sister-ship Ms Koningsdam. That includes …

 By the Caribbean Journal staff The Aruba Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino has completed a series of upgrades to the property, including soft renovations of all 411 guest rooms. The changes included renovations to the resort’s Ruth’s Chris steakhouse,; a …

four seasons nevis renovation

 By Dana Niland CJ Contributor The Four Seasons Resort Nevis is set to undergo a multimillion-dollar, multi-phase enhancement project this year. The multi-phase renovation to the 350-acre property will kick off in April 2018 with a redesign of all 196 …

 By the Caribbean Journal staff The Tropical, a resort in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, is undergoing a major upgrade to its room inventory. The Lifestyle Holidays Vacation Resort’s renovation project will cover all 282 rooms, of which the first phase …

 By the Caribbean Journal staff One of the British Virgin Islands’ most beloved boutique hotels is reopening its doors in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The Sugar Mill Hotel has announced it will be reopening on Dec. 1 …

 

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