Monthly Archives: October 2008

The Caribbean’s 15 best hotels

The 40-minute drive from the airport to Amanyara culminates on a bumpy, gravelly road bordered by dust-coated scrub brush. Just when you start to seriously believe that your driver has taken a wrong turn, the gravel ends and you arrive.Forbes Traveler picks the 15 best hotels in the Caribbean, including La Samanna, Curtain Bluff and Horned Dorset Primavera.

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The Caribbean’s all-time top 10 classic resorts

Along a private cove with 700 feet of soft sand, lawns and flowering shrubs, the Jamaica Inn, in Jamaica offers spacious suites featuring lanais that function as outdoor living rooms.A night at Antigua’s Curtain Bluff for $80, including breakfast and dinner? How about a suite and all meals at Little Dix Bay on Virgin Gorda for $125? It’s hard to believe, but those were the going rates in the first edition of my guidebook “Caribbean Hideaways”, published in 1978.

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Kenny Chesney spills his island soul

"I’ve always had an island soul to me," country star Kenny Chesney says of his love of boating in the Caribbean.When country music superstar Kenny Chesney needs to connect with the muse, he heads to the islands.

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