Historic St. George, Hamilton shopping, pink-sand beaches, top-notch dining, superb sailing & fishing...this still largely genteel island apart out in the Atlantic (not the Caribbean!) is a marvelous little world apart.


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The top 8 musts in gracious, beautiful Bermuda

  Craig Stanfill A British Overseas Territory with a land area of just 21 square miles – the size of a middling city anywhere in the world – and a population of 73,000, Bermuda is named after its original discoverer, Spanish explorer Juan de Bermúdez. It has been settled for 412 years and has been a popular tourist destination – especially for those in the United States, for whom it´s a flight of just over two hours from the East Coast – since the 1880´s, when the Hamilton Hotel (now the…

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Bermuda's 15 best beaches

This island is of course most famous for its pink sands, but there are plenty of differences, too - popular versus lesser known castaway; which are best for snorkeling; even for spotting whales. TheCrazyTourist.com gives us the rundown at  https://www.thecrazytourist.com/15-best-beaches-in-bermuda/ 

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Bermuda Tourism Authority launches agreement with Airbnb

This year Airbnb entered into a partnership with the Bermuda Tourism Authority that involves marketing and the exchange of fees. Remarkable, because Bermuda is nothing if not an upmarket destination. What's more, Airbnb has now signed memorandums of understanding with a dozen or so Caribbean islands, creating a new era of cooperation between the governments and this company, which not so long ago was frequently accused of tax evasion. read post

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Norwegian Cruise Line????

Hello- Has anybody taken the Boston-Bermuda cruise on Norwegian? Or any Norwegian cruise to Bermuda? Any cruise at all? My wife and I are total cruises rookies and could use any and all advice. Thanks. Bill

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  • John Kipper June 15, 2010 at 5:37am
    Actually, I like ol' Chuck, I take my nephews there whenever I go back home, it's a great product but it is what it is. St. Barths is not Chuck E cheese and neither is st john or the BVI or any number of islands. And anyway, each island is totally different, you can't compare Curacao to St Barts to St Thomas to Puerto Rico to whatever... you get my drift.
  • David Paul Appell June 15, 2010 at 5:34am
    Wow, controversy over Bermuda! Who knew? Well, to put in my two cents, I've been to the island twice and written a couple of articles about it. I have fond memories -- it was one of my first foreign trips as a kid and a site of a great family landmark (OK, I saved my sister's life in the Ariel Sands' pool). And it has, as Kathie says, a completely different vibe than the Caribbean, very much so. But nor would I condemn the entire Caribbean as "Chuck E. Cheese," because while large swaths of it have unfortunately become too commoditized, there are still MANY places in the Caribbean which are still enchanting. In fact, I'm leaving for one of them this week: Virgin Gorda, in the BVI. Others include Carriacou, Marie Galante, Barbuda...well, there are plenty more where those came from.
  • Kathie Hagen June 15, 2010 at 5:22am
    Ooh John! You must really abhor Chuck E. Cheese.
  • John Kipper June 15, 2010 at 4:01am
    With all due respect to Bermuda -- I've been there and loved it -- I think that's an outrageous statement. There are spectacular places in the Caribbean that rival or surpass Bermuda. For starters, Bermuda isn't even tropical. As much as I love the place where my parents honeymooned (they really did!), I'll take some islands in the Caribbean ANY DAY over Bermuda.

    We all have preferences, but to call the Caribbean Chuck E. Cheese is just not right.
  • Kathie Hagen June 15, 2010 at 3:09am
    I put Caribbean first & Bermuda second, then I put Chuck E. Cheese first & Spago second. The style convention is to compare the first to the first, the second to the second. Like saying, "My aunt & uncle, Mary & John, will be at the party." Caribbean is Chuck E. Cheese, Bermuda is Spago.
  • Max Pesling June 14, 2010 at 10:12pm
    But which is Spago and which is Chuck E. Cheese?
  • Kathie Hagen June 14, 2010 at 8:42pm
    You can't compare any destination in the Caribbean with Bermuda. It's like comparing Chuck E. Cheese with Spago. Bermuda has a completely different vibe than anywhere in the Caribbean.
  • Northeast News June 14, 2010 at 7:42pm
    Last week I read Tripatini's blog about cruise deals out of Ft Lauderdale & Miami. Today I read that NYC-Bermuda cruises are full up. Why would NYC-Bermuda be so much more appealing than, say, Ft Lauderdale - Caribbean?
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