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Budget-Friendly Jamaica Hotels Where Rooms Start Under $200 — Even in High Season

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White-sand beaches, reggae rhythms drifting on the breeze, and a warm Jamaican welcome — you don’t need a luxury budget to experience it all. While Jamaica is home to some of the Caribbean’s most famous all-inclusive resorts, it’s also one of the best islands for affordable stays. From Negril’s legendary Seven Mile Beach to the […]

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The Caribbean’s Coolest Boardwalk Is In St Croix, With Burgers, a Tiki Bar and a Beach Taxi

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There’s something magnetic about the Christiansted Boardwalk on St. Croix. It’s not just a place—it’s a vibe, a rhythm, a living postcard of Caribbean life. Stretching along the harbor, this wooden promenade is where history, culture, and island energy converge, making it arguably the coolest boardwalk in the Caribbean, at least in my opinion. Christiansted […]

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This Airline Is Adding Daily Flights to a Caribbean Island With Bungalow Hotels, Legendary Music and Some of the Best Beaches You’ve Ever Seen 

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The beaches. The music. The calm. You can spend the whole day on a beach in Cat Island and never see another soul. It’s one of those fantasy islands, the ones you think don’t exist anymore, where the sand is sugar white, the water is brilliant turquoise and you feel like you have the entire […]

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This Caribbean Luxury Resort Has a Turtle Season — And You Can Join the Mission

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It begins with a story — one told in tracks on the sand and whispered through the waves. On Nevis, they return. Hawksbill, Green, and Leatherback turtles, critically endangered, rise from the sea in the dead of night to lay the future into the earth. They’ve been doing it for millennia. And for seven weeks […]


This Airline Is Adding Daily Flights to a Caribbean Island With Bungalow Hotels, Legendary Music and Some of the Best Beaches You’ve Ever Seen 

I’m on a perfect Caribbean beach. And it’s all mine. Here in the northeastern corner of Antigua there’s a tucked-away bay with a pristine stretch of sand. The water is calm, the views are endless and the vibes immaculate.  This is the Verandah Antigua, an adults-only resort that’s been constantly reinventing the all-inclusive experience in […]

Barbados Is Projecting a Big Cruise Season

Barbados is projecting a big cruise season ahead, Caribbean Journal has learned.  The island’s tourism officials are anticipating a 22 percent jump in cruise arrivals for the 2025-2026 season, according to a press briefing at the recent Caribbean Travel Marketplace conference in Antigua.  The 22 percent jump would come across 467 different ship calls, totaling […]

Jamaica Just Got an Upgraded US Travel Advisory: “A Great Step Forward” 

Last year’s US Travel Advisory led to a slowdown in tourist arrivals to Jamaica. But in what’s hoped to be a major shift, the US State Department just upgraded Jamaica’s rating.  Jamaica’s travel advisory has improved from Level 3 to Level 2, meaning the US considers the safety situation on the island to have improved.  […]

The 10 Best Hotels in Montego Bay, Jamaica, From All-Inclusive Icons to Villa Hideaways

Montego Bay is one of the Caribbean’s great hotel destinations — a place where legendary resorts meet new expressions of luxury. It’s a city that merges vibrant culture with polished hospitality, where days are measured in ocean breezes, barefoot walks, and the clink of glasses at sunset. From timeless icons to adults-only escapes, these are […]

Hilton’s New Dominican Republic All-Inclusive Is Opening Next Month, With Plunge-Pool Rooms and On-the-Sand Bungalows 

The newest Hilton-branded all-inclusive in the Caribbean is set to make its highly-anticipated debut next month, Caribbean Journal has confirmed.  The new Hilton Zemi Miches, set in the fast-growing development hotspot of Miches (where brands like Marriott have already staked claims) is officially opening June 30.  The hotel is bookable for stays beginning those dates.  […]

Cozumel Is Seeing Big Cruise Growth 

Cozumel is back in a big way.  The Mexican Caribbean island welcomed more than 4.6 million cruise passengers in 2024, according to new data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization—a 13.1 percent jump over the previous year. It was one of the largest year-over-year increases of any cruise destination in the wider Caribbean. The island, long […]

The 10 Best Hotels in Bonaire, From Beachfront All-Inclusives to Iconic Dive Resorts

The Caribbean island of Bonaire is one of the last places where a hotel stay still feels like discovery. It’s quiet, low-key, and spectacularly unscripted—more reef than resort, more adventure than agenda. There are no mega-hotels, no cruise crowds, no manufactured thrills. Just salt in the air, wind in the palms, and a kind of […]

Inside Ralph Lauren’s Corner of Jamaica, Where Style and Legacy Live by the Sea

There are places that trade in flash, and there are places that don’t need to. Round Hill is the latter. This isn’t a resort that tries to keep up with the moment—it’s a destination that helped define one. Set on 110 acres of lush hillside just west of Montego Bay, Round Hill wears its legacy […]