The Caribbean's best resorts are constantly in search of ways to improve upon paradise.
But in the past year, several new hotels have upped the stakes, including brand-new properties and reinvented hotels that have made modern tweaks to draw more travelers to their shores (along with renovated pools, enhanced guestrooms, and swanky new restaurants).
No matter what you're looking for—romance, adventure, seclusion, or great eats—there's a new (or renovated) hotel in the Caribbean for you.
O:live Boutique Hotel
Where: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Just off the beach in ritzy Condado, O:live's name references both the owners’ extensive Mediterranean travels and “l’art de vivre.” Artworks cram the lobby, crossing a living room with a museum. Fifteen smallish but well-equipped rooms also exude European style, featuring glass-box showers, plasma TVs, DVD players, free WiFi, and tablets programmed with Pandora, YouTube, and Google. Don’t miss O:liva restaurant’s Mediterranean cuisine, or marina views from the rooftop pool, which is a stylish see-and-be-scene come evening.
Plan Your Trip: Visit the Fodor's Puerto Rico guide
CéBlue Villas
Where: Anguilla
Anguilla’s first shared ownership and rental villa complex, CéBlue Villas blends the intimacy of a private villa with resort facilities, including “24-hour lifestyle assistant/concierges,” spa, fitness center, and partner beachfront bistro, da'Vida. Eight gi-normous five-bedroom villas offer 8,000 square feet of cool contemporary space, as well as the de rigueur private plunge pools. CéBlue Villas crowns a hilltop overlooking Anguilla’s Crocus Bay, a short golf cart ride from the beach.
Plan Your Trip: Visit the Fodor's Anguilla Guide
Royal Oasis by Occidental
Where: Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Two new hotels promise relief for this beautiful but beleaguered nation, including the 106-room Best Western Premier Petion-ville, built to withstand earthquakes up to magnitude 9. But the 128-room hotel, also in elegant embassy-filled Petion-ville, presages a return to Haiti’s touristic grandeur. Boutiques and an art gallery enhance the local cultural connection. The chic rooftop poolside lounge affords panoramic views. The four restaurants include the gorgeous 1930s-themed La Villa, which originally operated as Le Picardie, a swank eatery hosting such celebs as Marlon Brando, Conrad Hilton, and Gloria Vanderbilt.
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