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Best All Inclusive Resorts Caribbean: 2011 Rankings

Best All Inclusive Resorts Caribbean: 2011 Rankings

August 9, 2011 By Bimmia

Many publications have ranked the Best All Inclusive Resorts in the Caribbean, but we have saved you the time of having to research them all. Below is our compilation of the best all inclusive resorts in the Caribbean based on reviews gathered from the top sources across the web.

If you are considering an all inclusive vacation, but you don’t want a crappy buffet and a lame limbo show before dinner.  You want a luxury resort and you want the financial certainty of the all inclusive format.  You are not alone, and there are many excellent resorts to choose from.  In this article we tell you the very best all inclusive resorts available.  We also give you information on how to get a deal at one of these exclusive resorts.

Best All Inclusive Resorts in the Caribbean

Curtain Bluff – Antigua
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Recent Trip Advisor Review:

I am lucky enough to have traveled to some of the most beautiful places in the world but Curtain Bluff in Antigua blew my mind. The resort staff was fabulous, the food was delicious, and the rooms were stunning. It is small and intimate, yet offers many fun acitivies to keep anyone busy.

Current deals at Curtain Bluff

Goldeneye – Jamaica

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Definitive Caribbean Says:

Goldeneye is hidden away on the north coast of Jamaican just to the east of the town of Oracabessa. It sits in a garden of lawns and mature trees that gives onto a limestone clifftop. Hidden among the trees and mangroves you will find several houses, the centrepiece of which is the original Goldeneye, the house built by Ian Fleming. A Fifties bungalow, it looks through the trees to the sea, in timeless tranquillity. Now it has been adapted and brought to modern levels of style and comfort. It goes by the name Fleming House.

Current Deal at Goldeneye


Paradisus Palma Real – Dominican Republic

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Image courtesy Paradisus Palma Real

About.com says:

  • Truly magnificent accommodations
  • Staff you’d like to take home with you
  • Wonderful food variety and quality
  • Competent, English-speaking physician on call when your child spikes a 104-degree fever

Paradisus guaurantees the best rate at their site – here’s there guarantee


Casa de Campo – Dominican Republic

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Image courtesy Casa de Campo

Caribbean Travel + Life Says:

For golfers, this is heaven, with three Pete Dye-designed championship courses, the “Teeth of the Dog”, the “Links” and the new “Dye Fore”.   Activities include tennis, private beach, water sports, pools, horseback riding, spa suites, shooting, boating and excursions. Outstanding dining, entertainment, year-round programs for kids and teens, new marina & yacht club, shopping and wondrous Altos de Chavon artists’ village!

Current Airfare Credit Deal on Villa Stays:

For vacations reserved by April 9, 2009
For travel January 4 – April 12, 2009

  • $200 airfare credit for 4 night stay in a Classic Villa with Inclusive supplement
  • $350 airfare credit for 5 night stay in a Classic Villa with Inclusive supplement
  • $500 airfare credit for 7 night stay in a Classic Villa with Inclusive supplement

CONDITIONS:

  • Minimum 5 night stay required
  • Villa Inclusive Supplement per person required
  • Valid on new bookings only
  • Not valid on Classic Villa E.P. rates.
  • Not valid on Exclusive Villas or internet special Hot Deals Villas.
  • Not valid in conjunction with golf tournament rates, or group rates.
  • Not combinable with any other promotion.
  • Black-out dates may apply.

Go here for a full list of specials

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Royal Plantation, The Resort – Jamaica

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Image Courtesy Royal Plantation

Definitive Caribbean Says:

Royal Plantation Jamaica is an all-inclusive couples resort in Ocho Rios, also with a room only plan. Set in 8 acres, 76 suites with satellite TV, VCR & CD, 2 beaches with butler service, 4 restaurants including a caviar bar, 2 bars, swimming pool, 2 Jacuzzis, 2 floodlit tennis courts, non-motorised watersports, games room, full service spa, beauty salon, fitness centre, gift shop, conference centre, weddings Jamaica service, golf Ocho Rios close by.

Check for their current promotions here

Browse our Jamaica Vacation Deals for deals at Royal Plantation and other Jamaica resorts

Sandals Royal Bahamian – Bahamas

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Image courtesy Heather (Flickr)

Sherman’s Travel Says:

It may be expensive, but it’s the most luxurious of all of Sandals’ resorts and one of the most comfortable properties in the Caribbean and Bahamian regions combined — an estimated $20 million was pumped into restoring this property on the site of a hotel originally built in the ‘40s.

Current Sandals Royal Bahamian Deal

These all-inclusive resorts represent the best of the best in all inclusive Caribbean vacations.

Here is a listing of  Caribbean all inclusive deals – including deals at some of the best resorts.

Filed Under: All Inclusive Vacations, Caribbean Vacation Tagged With: all inclusive, Antigua, Bahamas, best, casa de campo, curtain bluff, Dominican Republic, goldeneye, Jamaica, paradisius palma real, Royal Plantation, sandals

Best Caribbean Resorts: 2011 Best Resort List

Best Caribbean Resorts: 2011 Best Resort List

November 2, 2011 By Bimmia

If you want to know which resorts are the very best in the Caribbean, this is the page for you. Instead of creating yet another opinion on the best Caribbean resorts, instead we decided to research what the top travel sites consider the best and aggregate the results for you here. What you see here represents the consensus best Caribbean resorts from the web’s foremost authorities. If you want only the best for your Caribbean vacation, any of these resorts should satisfy your taste.

To compile our consensus list, we examined the “best lists” of the following 8 travel sites:

Forbes Traveler
Travel Channel
About.com
Gayot
Travel + Leisure
Caribbean Travel + Life
Islands Magazine
Conde Nast Traveler

In this article, we decided to limit the resorts to only those that had received top marks from at least three publications.  Each of the top resorts are ordered based on the number of times they appeared on the best list of one of the aforementioned publications.  The number in parentheses next to each resort is the number of publications that ranked it as a top resort.   The best caribbean resort, Caneel Bay, was listed as one of the best resorts in the Caribbean in 7 of the 8 sites we researched.

Without further adieu here is the list of the best Caribbean resorts.

    1. Caneel Bay – St. John – (7)

Caneel Bay

    1. Sandy Lane – Barbados (6)

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    1. Peter Island Resort – British Virgin Islands (6)

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    1. Cap Juluca – Anguilla (5)

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    1. Four Seasons Resort Nevis – Nevis (5)

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    1. Half Moon Golf Tennis & Beach Resort – Jamaica (5)

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    1. One&Only Ocean Club – Bahamas (5)

One&Only Ocean Club

    1. Parrot Cay – Turks & Caicos (5)

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    1. Malliouhana Hotel & Spa – Anguilla (4)

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    1. Anse Chastenet – St. Lucia (4)

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    1. Little Dix Bay – Virgin Gorda, BVI (4)

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    1. The Reefs – Bermuda (3)

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    1. Jamaica Inn – Jamaica (3)

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    1. Curtain Bluff – Antigua (3)

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So there you have it, the 14 best resorts money can buy in the Caribbean.

So how do you find a deal at one of these resorts?

First, start by using the resources on this site.  You can find a deal by browsing our Caribbean vacation deals page, or by simply searching for one of the resorts in the search box on this page.  For example, you could try a search for Four Seasons to see any current deals.

If that doesn’t yield anything you can always try the resort website.  All the links above for the resorts will take you directly to their specials page – if they have one.

One final option for deals at these upscale resorts is to try Luxury Link.

Filed Under: Caribbean Vacation Tagged With: best, caneel bay, caribbean

Best Caribbean Deals – How You Can Find Them

April 7, 2009 By Bimmia

So you want to know who has the best Caribbean Deals?  Well, when it comes to Caribbean deals we think we have more deals than anyone.  Here’s our page full of Caribbean Deals if you wan to check for yourself.   However, we don’t have every deal to the Caribbean on that page, so if you can’t find what you want there, what should you do?

For starters, probably the smartest thing to do is to use our Caribbean deals search page.  This customized search, will let you search more than 25 of the best Caribbean travel deal sites at once. Try a search for a resort name or an island and see for yourself.

What if you still can’t find what you are looking for or you just want to see even more deals?  Well, if you want more, here it is.  Each of these sites has deals to the Caribbean, and the links below take you directly to their deals pages.  If you want to know who has the best deals, the answer to that question is, it depends. We did a comparison of vacation packages, at several sites and the results vary widely.

If you will stop at nothing to get the best deal, you have to do some searching.  Hopefully this list will help you out.

Travel Zoo Caribbean Hotel Deals
Priceline Caribbean Vacation Package Deals
Travel Zoo Caribbean Vacation Deals
Booking Buddy Caribbean Travel Deals
Budget Travel Caribbean Deals
Caribbean Travel Magazine Specials
Cheap Caribbean Package Deals
Continental Airlines Caribbean Featured Fares
Delta Vacations Caribbean Deals
Expedia Caribbean Vacation Deals
Kayak Caribbean Vacation Deals
Sherman’s Travel Caribbean and Mexico Hotel Deals
Sherman’s Travel Caribbean and Mexico Vacation Package Deals
Sidestep.com Caribbean Vacation Deals
Vacation Travel Mart Caribbean Deals
Tropical Travel Caribbean Vacation Packages
Apple Vacations – You need to pick where you are leaving from to see the right prices on this page.
Booking Wiz Caribbean Deals
Virtual Tourist Caribbean Deals
Travelocity Caribbean Deals
Yahoo! Travel Caribbean Hotel Deals
Yahoo! Travel Caribbean Vacation Packages Deals
American Airlines Vacations – Caribbean Deals
CheapOAir.com Caribbean Deals
Cheap Tickets Caribbean Deals
Continental Airlines Caribbean Deals
Costco Travel Caribbean Deals
Delta Vacations Caribbean Deals
Hotels.com Caribbean Deals
Hotwire Caribbean Deals
Independent Traveler Caribbean Deals
Orbitz Caribbean Deals

If we have missed any please let us know.

Filed Under: Caribbean Vacation, Cruise Deals Tagged With: best, caribbean, deals

Online Travel Agents – List of Best Sites

March 5, 2009 By Bimmia

The online travel booking industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, and that fact alone means there are many sites vying for your travel booking business.  The online travel industry is evolving quickly, and there are new competitors with new business models appearing every year.

In this article we will focus on the largest and best online travel agencies.  These are sites that can book you with all the well known airlines, hotels and car rental companies.  These sites can also book travel for cruises and vacation packages worldwide.

Largest Online Travel Agents: The Big 3

Expedia

Expedia is the largest online travel agency in the world.  Quantcast estimates 10.2 million visitors in January 2009.  Expedia has been around since 1996 and can meet most of your travel booking needs.  Expedia also offers a low price guarantee on any travel booked through them.  Expedia also offers a rewards program.

Travelocity

Travelocity is the second largest of the big 3, with a Quantcast estimated 6.1 million visitors in January 2009.  From a features and price perspective, Travelocity is very similar to Expedia, and they too offer a guarantee.  In addition to a low price guarantee, Travelocity also offers a 24 hour change or cancellation guarantee.  If you purchase an electronic airline ticket and notify them of a change to the dates, names, or flight times within 24 hours of your purchase, they will cancel your airline ticket without charging you a fee.

Orbitz

The smallest of the big 3, Orbitz was originally established through the partnership of various airlines in an effort to compete with Expedia and Travelocity.  As of January 2009 Quantcast shows a visitor count of 5.4 million.  Functionally, Orbitz is the equivalent of Travelocity and Expedia, and as you might expect, they too offer a airfare price guarantee.  Orbitz also offers guarantees on hotel and car rentals.

Online Travel Agency Contenders

There are litterally thousands of online travel agencies, with each one trying to distinguish themselves in some way.  Some of these sites use technology as a differentiator, some use customer service while others book travel in a particular niche.

www.cheaptickets.com

Cheap Tickets is owned by Orbitz, so you are not likely to see much difference in the price between what you find on Orbitz and what you find on Cheap Tickets.

www.priceline.com

Priceline is the leader in truly discounted travel rates with a Quantcast estimated 4.8 million visitors in January 2009.  Priceline’s unique offering is their “Name Your Own Price” model, where you can place a bid for what you are willing to pay for airfare, hotels and car rentals.  It takes a little practice to understand the nuances of travel price bidding, but the results can be dramatic.

www.hotwire.com

Hotwire is the number two player in the discount travel agency industry.  Hotwire lets you search for air travel, hotels, and car rentals, but they don’t show you exactly which airline, hotel, or car rental agency you will be booked with.  This model allows the travel companies to discount their rates without publishing the discount.  Great deals are often available through Hotwire.  Be aware though that, similar to Priceline, their cancellation policies are usually more restrictive than the full service travel agencies.  Hotwire is owned by Expedia.

www.hotels.com

As their name might suggest, Hotels.com focuses on booking hotels.  They offer very competitive rates and are a good option for booking hotel travel.  Hotels.com will also allow you to book flights and vacation packages.  Hotels.com is owned by the same company as Expedia, so expect the same rates on air travel as you would get with Expedia.

www.cheapoair.com

Another full service online travel agency that allows you to book air, hotel, and car rentals.  CheapOair also has a price guarantee.  CheapOAir has struggled in past years with customer support.

www.onetravel.com

Yet another full service online travel agency that allows you to book air, hotel, and car rentals.  OneTravel also has a price guarantee.  There are no special features at OneTravel to distinguish them from the rest.

www.booking.com

This site is focused hotel bookings.  Booking.com is owned by Priceline.  They offer a low price guarantee and all their hotel bookings are free.  They boast access to 57,000 hotels worldwide.

www.cheapair.com

CheapAir.com is primarily focused on air travel.  They attempt to distinguish their offering from others through their intuitive interface.  Their air travel rates are competitive with the leaders in the industry.

www.smartfares.com

Smartfares.com is a very vanilla looking online travel agency.  There is really nothing about their site that distinguishes them from the competition.  You can book air, hotels and cars on Smartfares.

www.bookit.com

A relatively new entrant in the online travel agency market, Bookit.com certainly has a website that looks distinctly different than many of the others.  The one thing that distinguishes them from the rest is their aggresive use of their trademarked FROM technology.  Once you tell them where you are travelling from, they customize the site to show you deals and offers from that departure point.

www.lastminute.com

Lastminute.com is number one for sites that focus the user experience and their offerings on last minute travel.  You can book air, hotel, and cars through LastMinute.com.  LastMinute.com is owned by Travelocity.com, so expect their pricing to be the same as Travelocity’s.

www.applevacations.com

Apple Vacations is number on for sites focused on providing vacation packages.  They focus on travel to the caribbean and mexico.  They try to distinguish themselves with competitive rates and superior customer service.  The say, “Apple Vacations employees will greet you at your departure airport in more than 20 cities; and will meet your flight in our charter destinations.”

So Who’s the Best Online Travel Agent?

You simply can’t go wrong by using one of the top 3 travel agencies.  The top travel agencies have own many of the other travel booking sites that have different business models and have incorporated their technology and relationships into their sites as well.

If you want the best deal, you are going to have to visit them all – no one site has the best deals all the time, which these articles illustrate: Caribbean Vacation Package Deals,

Filed Under: Best of Travel Tagged With: best, list, travel agency

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