Caribbean Blog

Growing up watching Gilligan's Island, I secretly wanted to get stranded on a tropical island. You can make anything out of bamboo and coconuts, so what more do you need? Today that deserted island lure is still strong. Lucky for me, they exist. Though not quite deserted, these islands are…

It seems Hollywood is all abuzz about the rumored Christmas Day wedding of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The couple is remaining tight-lipped about any nuptials that supposedly took place in Turks and Caicos while vacationing with their family, close friends, and a boatload of nannies.

Brangelina and entourage spent…

Friday

When I told Shawna we were headed to one of America's last Wild West frontiers' place where saddles and surfboards were the favored modes of transport?she didn't believe me. But here we are, at the Horned Dorset Primavera, a Relais & Chaeaux resort tucked quietly away on Puerto Rico's…

Thursday

It was a light-hearted debate that began almost from the moment we set foot inside the gateway at Francis Ford Coppola's luxurious Turtle Inn. Yes, that Francis Ford Coppola.

Were we in Central America, or more accurately Belize?a tiny slice of English-speaking territory wedged in between the Yucatan Mexico…

Friday

I've heard them described as snow-white, amber, honey-colored, black volcanic, gray and even tawny, but pink was a new adjective modifying the word beach, and it was right there in the name of the resort we were headed to from Nassau. I said so to Shawna, but she reminded…

Friday

Thom quizzes me on our 90-minute flight from Miami to Providenciales to visit the stunning new Amanyara, one of the Aman brand's 18 small luxury resorts worldwide. "Any guess on what the marketing slogan used to be for the Turks and Caicos Islands?" he asks. I've already seen the…

Tuesday

Unless you want to build your own overwater bungalow, you can't get much closer to the famed white sands and sapphire waters of Seven Mile Beach than the Grand Cayman Meridian condo. When Thom and I arrived earlier today and stepped through the back door of the lobby, we…

Friday

Sipping cocktails on the top deck of the Beau Rive Hotel--an 8-room inn on the northeastern coast of Dominica, the "Nature Island of the Caribbean"--it's easy to imagine that little has changed here in the last five centuries. Dominica, in fact, was the very last island in the Caribbean…

Sunday

"Eden Rock Hotel is the kind of place where--if you close your eyes to the sugar-sand beaches and the turquoise waters--you can be forgiven for thinking you've landed on the French Riviera instead of the Caribbean," Shawna announced shortly after we arrived at this world-class Relais & Chateaux property…

Thursday

It was the overwhelming lightness in color and mood I noticed first on our arrival at Sandy Lane Resort, a 112-room-and-suite property on Barbados, just 35 minutes from Grantley Adams International Airport. Of course it didn't hurt our moods at all that we arrived in style, chauffeured to the…