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There’s a particular delight in finding the perfect beach town in the Caribbean, a place that manages to marry a pristine stretch of sand with a walkable, energetic, culture-filled mini-destination.
While great beach towns (and beach cities) abound in the Caribbean, from legendary spots like Grand Case, Saint Martin to surf hotspots like Cabarete, it’s the Caribbean’s tiny beach towns that really manage to yank at your heart strings.
Here are five of our favorite small beach towns in the Caribbean, ranging from the heart of the French Caribbean to a tucked-away destination on the Caribbean coast of Mexico.
Le Carbet, Martinique It began with a beach bar, Le Petibonum, that almost single-handedly turned this lovable village just south of Saint Pierre into a bucket-list destination. Now, Le Carbet is a buzzing (but still quite laid back) beach destination with a growing number of toes-in-the-sand eateries and a hard-to-match barefoot vibe. It doesn’t hurt that just across from the sand is one of the Caribbean’s most legendary rum distilleries, Rhum Neisson.
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Low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines is launching a new nonstop route to Cancun in February, Caribbean Journal has learned.
Spirit will launch its first-ever flights from Cleveland to Cancun, Mexico beginning Feb. 14.
“We are proud to celebrate five years in Cleveland and grateful for all the support from our Guests here,” said John Kirby, Spirit Airline’s Vice President of Network Planning. “Cleveland travelers appreciate our value proposition, which has allowed Spirit to grow significantly from three to twelve destinations in five years. As we look to the future, we look forward to serving and expanding in the region for years to come.”
The new flights will operate four times each week, according to Spirit.
“Spirit Airlines is a great partner at CLE and has been for the last 5 years,” said Cleveland Airport Director Robert Kennedy. “We look forward to many more years of success and growth together. Spirit Airlines provides Clevelanders with new opportunities to travel to wonderful locations at competitive costs.”
The scuba diving circuit in the Caribbean has long been a rarefied one, with a small group of destinations like Bonaire and Cozumel drawing the world’s top divers and enthusiasts.
Now a new scuba diving player has emerged: Antigua.
The hottest diving destination in the Caribbean is Antigua, home to world-class dive sites across the island, particularly on its popular southern coast, and the added benefit of being largely undiscovered by much of the scuba diving community.
And the epicenter of this burgeoning dive destination is on the southeastern coast of the island at the island’s St James’s Club and Villas Resort.
It’s called Mamora Bay Divers, the on-site dive operation at the property, which has called St James’ Club home since 2011.
Mamora Bay, the island’s leading dive outfit, is led by dive master and instructor Linda Swann, who has more than 15,000 dives under her belt in destinations from the Caribbean to the Red Sea.
It means scuba divers have a new adventure to try in the Caribbean, a new way to experience some of the most beautiful. pristine reefs in the wider Caribbean – ones without the high-volume traffic of legacy diving destinations.
And Antigua’s got all of the elements in place: beautiful, healthy reefs; a diverse undersea ecosystem; copious ledges, swim-throughs and underwater chimneys and warm water coupled with great visibility (with the latter typically ranging from 40 to 130 feet).
And if you dive between January and April, you can even hear the sounds of humpback whales.
And if you’re a novice, this is the right place, with Mamora’s Bay PADI-based instruction courses from the very entry level to dive master training.
And if you’re at the St James’s Club, you can simply meander down the path from your room, hope on the dive boat and take off, in a short time exploring legendary Antigua sites like JC Canon, Stoney Cove and Eugene’s Arena.
