As demand continues to grow for the US Virgin Islands, another carrier is expanding its service to the Caribbean destination. 

Frontier Airlines has announced plans to launch a new nonstop route between Miami and St Thomas beginning in March. 

The new service, which will operate on Sundays and Thursdays, is set to begin March 7. 

That’s along with soon-to-debut service on Frontier from Orlando to St Thomas, with twice-weekly service that will begin Feb. 19. 

“We are once again thankful for this partnership with Frontier as the carrier works to meet existing and create new demand for travel to the U.S. Virgin Islands with affordable fares,” said US Virgin Islands Tourism Commissioner Boschulte. 

The US Virgin Islands has been open for tourism since September, with a region-leading travel portal that has been an exemplar for safe tourism reopenings in the Caribbean. 

It’s yet another new route for Frontier at Miami International Airport, part of what the airline’s senior vice president of commercial called “exceptional growth at Miami’s convenient airport.”

Indeed, Frontier has been steadily ramping up its Caribbean network out of Miami, including recent expansions to destinations like San Juan and Cancun.

Every traveler aged five and up who enters the US Virgin Islands is required to use the USVI Travel Screening Portal and submit a negative test result taken and received within five days before travel. 

Notably, as a US territory, the USVI is exempt from the new CDC requirement of negative tests for travelers returning home to the United States. 

— CJ

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Low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines has officially relaunched its service from Orlando to Cancun on the Caribbean coast of Mexico. 

The carrier is now operating four flights between Orlando and Cancun each week, with service on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. 

The flights take just under two hours. 

It’s another airlift boost for Cancun and its airport, which have been seeing strong growth since the Mexican Caribbean officially reopened for tourism over the summer. 

Spirit has been rapidly growing its Caribbean network out of Orlando in recent years. 

— CJ

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In the Caribbean, luxury is different. 

Of course, any great resort must have excel in the fundaments of luxury: food and drink; interior and exterior design and, most importantly, service. 

But Caribbean luxury transcends that. In the Caribbean, luxury is also about beauty, about space; about the natural environment; about the sights, the aromas, about the art of experiencing the outdoors. 

In other words, it’s about all of the things that travelers prize most right now.

Compiling our annual ranking of the best luxury resorts is always a challenge; and this year, even more so. 

But the properties that made this list combined exacting quality in the aforementioned technical areas (including, of course, health and safety protocols) with that most important criterion of all: how special a resort makes you feel. 

Here are our favorite luxury resorts for 2021. 

The Shore Club, Turks and Caicos Now more than ever, travelers are drawn to residential resorts — properties that combine all the amenities of a home or villa with the ones you get at a hotel. Indeed, the things we want in a hotel experience have changed — and that’s what’s made the Shore Club Turks and Caicos even more of a masterwork. This Long Bay beach stunner has some of the most gorgeous — and gorgeously appointed — rooms you’ll find in the Caribbean, married with marvelous service, an exceptional culinary offering (including the wonderful new Almond Tree), a world-class spa and the kind of impeccable service that answers every request without ever being intrusive. 

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