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Eclipse at Half Moon Is Open Again in Jamaica, and It’s the Island’s Most Authentic Escape — With Beachfront Suites, a Sparkling Infinity Pool, and Two Miles of Sand

After a quiet season of restoration, the contemporary heart of Montego Bay’s most storied resort has thrown its doors open again, and there’s no more soulful way to do Jamaica right now. There’s a particular kind of joy in hearing that a place you love has come home, and that’s exactly how I felt when […]

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Marriott Is Opening a New Hotel in Puerto Rico

Marriott will soon be launching a brand-new hotel in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Caribbean Journal has learned. The new, 152-room Aloft Ponce will be the second Aloft-branded hotel in Puerto Rico and the second Aloft hotel in the wider Caribbean when it opens in October. The hotel has not revealed a specific opening date in the […]

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JetBlue Adding New Flights to Jamaica, Puerto Rico

JetBlue is continuing its plans for a major expansion in the Caribbean this winter season, Caribbean Journal has learned. The company’s recently-announced Caribbean push will also include a trio of new routes from Raleigh-Durham to the wider region. That will include headlined by new daily flights from Raleigh-Durham to Montego Bay, Jamaica beginning Nov. 19. […]

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San Juan, Puerto Rico Penthouse Sells for $3.4 Million

A four-bedroom, 5.5-bathroom penthouse in San Juan, Puerto Rico’s hip Condado Beach neighborhood has been sold for $3.4 million, Caribbean Journal Invest has learned. Unit 901 at the Acquamarina condominium at 1315 Ashford Avenue sold for a record-breaking $693.03 per square foot, according to Oriana Juvelier, vice president and broker at Puerto Rico Sotheby’s International […]

JetBlue Adding New Flights to Jamaica, Puerto Rico

Almost three months after reopening its borders for international tourism, Jamaica continues to see an increase in travel demand, according to new data from Expedia. Searches for Jamaica’s travel hub of Montego Bay on Expedia Group’s digital platforms rose 15 percent last month, the travel company said this week. Jamaica has received more than 40,000 […]

Expedia: Punta Cana Leading Caribbean Travel Demand

Caribbean destinations are showing resilience amid the challenges of COVID-19, led by the tourism hub of Punta Cana, according to a new report from Expedia Group. Searches for Caribbean destinations on Expedia Group sites had a positive increase last month, driven in large part by the Dominican Republic, long the region’s most popular destination by […]

Sonesta Is Expanding to Puerto Rico

Sonesta is undertaking a major brand expansion in the United States that will include its first hotel property in Puerto Rico, Caribbean Journal Invest has learned. The expansion is the result of a transaction with Service Properties Trust, which will transfer 103 InterContinental Hotel Group properties it owns to Sonesta branding. That will include the […]

St Thomas Is Getting New Nonstop Flights on United Airlines

United Airlines is launching its newest Caribbean route next month, new scheduled service from Newark to St Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands. United will be operating the route four times each week, with roundtrip service on Sundays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, according to the company. The new flights will kick off Sept. 3. […]

From Turks and Caicos to Puerto Rico, New Yorkers Are Migrating to the Caribbean

Even in the midst of a pandemic, villa sales in the second quarter in the Turks and Caicos Islands actually eclipsed the numbers from the same period in 2019. A strong part of that, Regency Christie’s International Real Estate senior broker Robert Greenwood told Caribbean Journal Invest, came from an increasingly important demographic in the […]

American Airlines Begins Big Caribbean Relaunch

American Airlines kicked off a major relaunch of service to the Caribbean on Tuesday, resuming flights to a host of reopened destinations across the region. American resumed eight routes from Miami on July 7, including service to Santo Domingo, Santiago, Punta Cana and Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; along with flights to […]

Puerto Rico Reopens for Tourism, Then Begins Rollback

Puerto Rico officially reopened for tourism on Wednesday, with a host of health and safety protocols for incoming travelers, and on Thursday promptly began a rollback of much of its service industry. On Thursday, Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced announced that the island’s bars, casinos and theaters would be closed, reduced restaurant capacity to a […]

JetBlue Is Adding New Flights to St Thomas, Puerto Rico

JetBlue is launching a Caribbean expansion beginning in August, with new routes to Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. Beginning Aug. 6, JetBlue will be operating a new route from Philadelphia to San Juan, Puerto Rico’s Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport “up to once daily,” the carrier said this week. In October, JetBlue […]