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Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association 2022 - Reality and Unreality?

Anyone else here following this org's annual event held in San Juan this past week? I read some of their posts in FB...compared to what I've been hearing outside from people I know there and the wider reality on the ground? Such a disconnect!

Started by Hal Peat

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On Aruba's De Palm Island, fun both above & below water

De Palm Island

I’ve always envied my scuba-diving friends who describe their magical underwater world full of coral reefs and colorful fish. I’ve snorkeled aplenty but it’s not quite the same. Now, although I remain uncertified as a diver, I have a

Started by Tripatini

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Cuisinart -- no, not the blender.

Cuisinart takes the Mediterranean decor + foodie themes of Anguilla and runs with them. Here, a blue-and-white (now Anguilla's marketing colors) room with the unfortunate (for the decorator, not for me) intrusion of long, pale feet.

Started by Ed Wetschler

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Malliouhana, an Auberge Collection Resort

Malliouhana created the Anguilla "brand" and even changed the definition of a Caribben resort when it opened in 1983/4. Instead of faux Colonial-style design, it was updated Mediterranean in its look. And while there were still luxury resorts in the

Started by Ed Wetschler

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Anguilla's Unfair Advantage?

Would it be wrong to say that Anguilla's abundance of drop-dead gorgeous beaches gives it an unfair advantage over some of the other islands?

FYI, this is the beach at Cap Juluca, a Belmond Hotel.

Started by Ed Wetschler

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For Valentine's Day, 9 of the Caribbean's most romantic resorts

Palm Island Resort

These tropical isles usually rank high on the list of V-Day getaways, and offer an embarassment of riches when it comes to hotels and resorts. So this year a writer for USA Today put together a list of nine for couples to consi

Started by David Paul Appell

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5 highlights of the holidays in Puerto Rico

TexPhoto

There may be no snow - and precious little ice skating or hot cocoa - on this lush, tropical Caribbean island, but there’s certainly holiday cheer, and lots of it, for a good long time – in fact, Puerto Rico takes pride in having the world

Started by David Paul Appell

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The Dominican Republic welcomes back Azure Air Ukraine

Azur Air Ukraine has resumed flights from Kiev to La Romana Airport in the Dominican Republic. A division of the Anex Tour Group, Azur is flying Boeing 767 carriers that can accommodate 320 passengers each.

The resumption of four weekly flights o

Started by Tripatini

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6 of the top adventures on St. Kitts & Nevis

Saint Christopher and Nevis Islands, commonly referred to as “St. Kitts” or “SKN”, comprise a country in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles’ Leeward Islands. They're actually the tops of a submerged volcanic mountain range, covered with rolling green fo

Started by Tripatini

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6 St. Lucia allures you won't want to miss

A very popular Caribbean vacation destination known for romantic getaways, its main centres include Rodney Bay and capital Castries in the north and Soufrière down south - also the site of the island's spectacular, iconic twin peaks, the Pitons. And

Started by Tripatini

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Vieques & Culebra, Puerto Rico's paradise isles

The Latin-flavored bit of the USA in the Caribbean that is Puerto Rico is itself a tropical paradise of balmy, palm-fringed beaches, rain forests, and vibrant island culture and history. But when Puerto Ricans themselves want to "get away from i

Started by José Balido

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Snapshots from Turks & Caicos, Exuma Cays

“Bermuda, Bahama, come on, pretty mama...”

The Caribbean has long been famed as an idyllic vacation hotspot, inspiring not only the Beach Boys but the entire world. It’s a region that never gets old, with more than 30 countries and territories spr

Started by Tripatini

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Puerto Plata is a Dominican classic

Many people these days think of the Dominican Republic in terms of its gorgeous beaches – well, maybe with a couple of key exceptions, most notably bustling Santo Domingo and its colonial zone. Up on the DR’s northwest coast, however, “Silver Port”

Started by Tripatini

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Samaná, the DR 'au naturel'

In a country where resort zones such as Punta Cana and Puerto Plata have become household names to holidaymakers in the Americas, Europe, and beyond, the new frontier in exotic, sunsplashed getaways is also starting to make a name

Started by Iberia Airlines

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Atlantis submarine an undersea Caymans adventure

If you have never been in a submarine gliding silently and effortlessly along a coral wall teeming with marine life, you are in for a big treat. The US-Coast-Guard-approved Atlantis XI is a 65-foot long battery-powered submersible specially designe

Started by Tripatini

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Why choose a chartered sailboat in the Caribbean

Going on a cruise sounds like heaven for most people. You get to board a big ship that’s set out for an exotic destination and you spend your days enjoying the cruise facilities while seeing an entire horizon of ocean blue stretched out before you. S

Started by David Paul Appell

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Picnic with a celebrity goat at a Jamaica resort

Sunset at the Palms, an all-inclusive, adults-only resort in Negril, Jamaica, garnered a lot of attention this spring when its staff expanded to include Betty, a female goat who became an instant hit when she was adopted by the hotel’s grounds keepin

Started by Tripatini

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Sales and Discounts in the BVI

There are a lot of good values in the British Virgin Islands to commemorate the sinking of the Rhone in 1867. See Tripatini's Bulletin Board group for details.

Started by Ed Wetschler

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The colonial - and beachy - charms of Trinidad, Cuba

When I started visiting one of Cuba's earliest settlements (founded in 1514), down in the central south coast some five or so hours from Havana's in the late 1990s, Trinidad was a sleepy little colonial gem in the rough – as in, fairly shabby lik

Started by José Balido

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The plantation inns of Nevis - and Alexander Hamilton

A few years ago, the fact that an island was the birthplace of one of the USA's Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton, would have elicited very little excitement. But in recent years, since the advent of the hit Broadway musical Hamiliton, Nevis is

Started by Tripatini

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All Discussions (138)

Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association 2022 - Reality and Unreality?

On Aruba's De Palm Island, fun both above & below water

Cuisinart -- no, not the blender.

Malliouhana, an Auberge Collection Resort

Anguilla's Unfair Advantage?

For Valentine's Day, 9 of the Caribbean's most romantic resorts

5 highlights of the holidays in Puerto Rico

The Dominican Republic welcomes back Azure Air Ukraine

6 of the top adventures on St. Kitts & Nevis

6 St. Lucia allures you won't want to miss

Vieques & Culebra, Puerto Rico's paradise isles

Snapshots from Turks & Caicos, Exuma Cays

Puerto Plata is a Dominican classic

Samaná, the DR 'au naturel'

Atlantis submarine an undersea Caymans adventure

Why choose a chartered sailboat in the Caribbean

Picnic with a celebrity goat at a Jamaica resort

Sales and Discounts in the BVI

The colonial - and beachy - charms of Trinidad, Cuba

The plantation inns of Nevis - and Alexander Hamilton

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