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St Martin’s Must-Visit Culinary Festival Is Back This November

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It just might be the best culinary destination in the Caribbean. And if you’ve been to the French side of St Martin, you know it’s a rather difficult proposition to challenge. Three years ago, the destination doubled down on its […]

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The Caribbean’s Best Beach Bar Beaches 

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Who doesn’t love a great beach bar?  What about an entire beach filled with them?  Travel across the Caribbean and you’ll find them, single stretches of sand teeming with beach bars, often all right in a row — beach bars […]

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Saint Martin Is Getting a Major New Hotel 

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The most important new hotel project in St Martin in decades is underway.  The 170-room project, which will be managed by Highgate, is targeting a debut at the end of 2023.  Construction is already underway, having launched in January 2022.  […]

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Legendary Caribbean Hotel Site for Sale 

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By Alexander Britell It’s one of the most prominent hotel sites in all of the Caribbean: La Belle Creole in Saint Martin.  And now the legendary hotel property is on the market, Caribbean Journal Invest has learned.  La Belle Creole, […]


The Most Romantic Hotels in the Caribbean

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Romance in the Caribbean comes in so many different forms: cliffside sunsets; afternoons on empty beaches; endless wine-fueled dinners in centuries-old estates; twilight walks on hidden streets.  And that’s particularly true of the most romantic hotels in the Caribbean, which […]


The Cool List: The Coolest Caribbean Hotels for 2022

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They may not be the biggest, or have the most amenities. They may be brand new, they may be centuries old. But the coolest hotels in the Caribbean are the ones that have that indescribable x-factor; where, no matter how […]

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The 10 Best Caribbean Beach Towns to Visit in 2022

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A parade of cafes at the edge of the sand; tiny bars and art galleries; a soundtrack of clacking plates and mopeds and afternoon laughter, silent and loud in all the right ways. Across the wider Caribbean one can find […]


A Secret Little Hotel in Saint Martin

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It’s hidden away on a hillside near Cul de Sac, just outside the Grand Case corridor and more than close enough to the Pinel Island ferry.  For years, it’s been one of the signature restaurants on an island with an […]


St Maarten Is Now Open to American Travelers

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On Aug. 1 St Maarten officially reopened its borders to travelers from the United States, following a July relaunch to Canadian and European tourists and private aviation.  It should be noted that only St Maarten, the Dutch side of the […]

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5 Tiny Caribbean Beach Towns to Visit Right Now

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There’s a particular delight in finding the perfect beach town in the Caribbean, a place that manages to marry a pristine stretch of sand with a walkable, energetic, culture-filled mini-destination.  While great beach towns (and beach cities) abound in the […]


A New Hotel Is Open in St Maarten

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St Maarten’s tourism rebirth has continued with the debut of the island’s newest hotel: the Adonis Cupecoy. The Adonis is the first new-build hotel to open its doors since Hurricane Irma, with a setting in Cupecoy, just south of the […]


The Cool List: The Coolest Caribbean Hotels for 2020

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The Caribbean’s roster of high-design, forward-thinking, fun-loving hotels continues to grow.  Everyone has a different definition of what’s cool — particularly when it comes to hotels.  But a cool hotel should have an x-factor, a special quality that turns it into […]