Cruise route guides and port guides for the Caribbean.
Plan your Eastern Caribbean cruise with confidence. Honest port logistics and day guides for San Juan, St Thomas, St Maarten and Tortola, plus homeport, currency and ESTA advice for UK passport holders.
Plan your Southern Caribbean cruise with confidence. Honest port logistics and day guides for Barbados, St Lucia, Antigua, Grenada and…
A quiet, upmarket British island north of St Maarten, famous above all for its beaches: Shoal Bay East, Meads Bay,…
Antigua sells itself on a number: 365 beaches, one for every day of the year. It was Britain's great naval…
Barbados is where most British Caribbean cruises begin, and the most British of the islands: Nelson in the square before…
The walled colonial old city of Cartagena de Indias, on Colombia's Caribbean coast: the ramparts and plazas of the Ciudad…
The Caribbean gateway to the Panama Canal: watch giant ships climb the Agua Clara locks, ride the trans-isthmian railway, or…
A British island run on its own strong dollar: the duty-free shops of George Town, the long pale sand of…
Grenada is the Spice Isle, and one of the prettiest arrivals in the Caribbean: St George's wraps around a horseshoe…
The end-of-the-road island at the bottom of the Florida Keys: Duval Street's bars and shops, Ernest Hemingway's house full of…
The lush volcanic main island of the Grenadines, with a central berth in its working capital: the oldest botanic garden…
The Dominican Republic's south-east resort gateway: a working sugar town where ships dock on the Rio Dulce, a short ride…
Jamaica's resort-and-beach port and lively second city: the pale sand of Doctor's Cave Beach, the bars and shops of the…
Jamaica's busiest cruise town, and the gateway to its most famous sight: the terraced cascade of Dunn's River Falls, climbed…
The southernmost Caribbean cruise island, off the Venezuelan coast and mostly below the hurricane belt: a working capital that gave…
The Yucatan gateway on the Gulf coast: ships dock at the end of a pier that runs 4 miles out…
Costa Rica's Caribbean gateway, where ships dock in the middle of a workaday port town and the real day is…
The oldest city under the American flag, and the Caribbean's great gateway port: blue cobbled streets and pastel houses, two…
The oldest European city in the Americas, founded in 1498, opening off the ship on the Ozama River: the first…
The chic, French corner of the Caribbean: the red-roofed yacht harbour of Gustavia, its luxury boutiques and waterfront dining, the…
St Kitts was Britain's first foothold in the Caribbean, and wears the history openly: the great fortress at Brimstone Hill,…
No Caribbean island announces itself like St Lucia: the two Pitons rising straight from the sea, a drive-in volcano still…
One small island shared by two nations, Dutch and French: the duty-free boardwalk of Philipsburg, the famous low-flying jets over…
One of the busiest cruise ports in the Caribbean: the Danish-built harbour town of Charlotte Amalie with its duty-free Main…
Tortola is British soil where the money is American and the draw is the water: a quiet capital at Road…