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In Antigua, the Art of the All-Inclusive Rum Bar

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JetBlue Has New Nonstop Flights to St. Maarten, the Dual-Destination Caribbean Island With Food, Fun, and Picture-Perfect Beaches

Sunset cocktails along the boardwalk. An afternoon of shopping in Philipsburg. Dinners in Grand Case that stretch late into the night — St. Maarten is just a fun place to be — and the Caribbean island has a way of making even simple rituals feel like part of its identity. With JetBlue’s new nonstop service from Fort Lauderdale, travelers now […]

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British Virgin Islands’ Cooper Island Beach Club Set for Return

By Alexander Britell It’s one of the most beloved hotels in the British Virgin Islands, and now the Cooper Island Beach Club is readying for its return. Cooper Island, which includes everything from a boutique hotel to one of the Caribbean’s largest rum bars, is reopening its doors next week after shuttering in the wake […]

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The Cooper Island Beach Club Is Reopening in April

By the Caribbean Journal staff One of the Caribbean’s coolest places to stay is making its triumphant comeback from last year’s hurricanes The Cooper Island Beach Club in the British Virgin Islands has announced plans to reopen on April 1. The reopening will include guest rooms, the hotel’s restaurant, its boutique, its famous rum bar, […]

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BVI’s Cooper Island Beach Club to Reopen in April

By the Caribbean Journal staff One of the best British Virgin Islands hotels is already planning its recovery from the devastation caused by Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The Cooper Island Beach Club has announced plans to reopen to hotel guests on Sunday, April 1, 2018, it announced in a post on Facebook this weekend. “Thank you […]

The Cooper Island Beach Club Is Reopening in April

It’s famous, this place, for its conch, and rightly so: Da Conch Shack draws pilgrims from across the world to taste its freshly-grabbed conch from the waters off Providenciales. (We like the cracked conch best). But there’s another reason to come to this corner of Providenciales — rum. Just to the side of the famous restaurant […]

Rum Journal: The Best Rum Bar in the British Virgin Islands

A great little rum bar on Cooper Island It’s a trend we like. More and more hotels are starting to celebrate the glory of rum by creating bars tailored around the spirit. That means rums not just from local distilleries but from across the wider Caribbean. And one of the best to come on the […]

The Best Rum Bar in St Martin

There are bars and there are beach bars and then there are rum bars. In the Caribbean, the last one means something quite different. As we’ve written in these pages before, a rum bar means a place where rum is appreciated, where rums are collected from both near and far — it’s a place for […]

Why Papa Zouk is (Still) the Caribbean’s Greatest Rum Bar

Above: Papa Zouk (all photos by CJ) By Alexander Britell ANTIGUA — A man excuses himself to offer a brand-new bottle of rum to the counter of the bar. But this is no ordinary bottle. It is an Appleton 21. And it is a gift, a gift to this bar. The bottle joins more than […]

Rum Journal: The Caribbean's First All-Inclusive Rum Bar

Above: The Peter John Sugar Cane Rum Bar at Coconut Bay in St Lucia (CJ Photo) We’ve written much in these pages celebrating the “rum bar.” Not to be confused with your standard Caribbean bar that serves rum, a rum bar is one that is dedicated to celebrating the world of rum, focusing on rums from […]