The Best Caribbean Beaches

The tiny island of Aruba, off the coast of Venezuela is the new playground of the rich. It has fantastically beautiful beaches, and all of them public beaches. Some are pack full of resorts, restaurants, bars and other amenities that cater to guests but some are practically bare except for a few huts to offer visitors some protection from the sun. Here are some of the best beaches in Aruba

Eagle Beach
One of the prettiest beaches in Aruba is Eagle Beach. It is a favorite of both the locals and foreign visitors because of its wide expanse of powdery white sand and amazingly blue and tranquil waters. It lies south of Palm Beach separated only by a steep rock formation that is a challenge to scale but the view from the top is very rewarding.

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Palm Beach
The famous Palm Beach is a two-mile long strip of sugary fine white sand beach lined with some of the most prestigious and fabulous hotels and resorts, beach bars, water sports equipment rentals, shops and restaurants. The long strip of powdery white sand beach skirts crystal clear calm waters perfect for snorkeling and swimming.

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Arashi Beach
Arashi Beach is one of Aruba’s best beaches for swimming because of its sandy bottom. It has incredibly clear and crystalline blue waters perfect for snorkeling and swimming. Arashi Beach is close to California Port and the California Lighthouse. At Arashi Beach there are no hotels or restaurants or any other facilities.

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Boca Catalina
Boca Catalina is located on the west side of the island. It has powdery white sand with lots of pebbles and stones. This is one of Aruba’s best beaches for snorkeling and swimming because of the shallow waters and its abundance of fish. There are no facilities on Boca Catalina except some beach huts to provide shade.

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Malmok Beach
Malmok beach is on the south side of Aruba. It is a lovely swimming and snorkeling beach with perfect powdery white sand, tiny quaint coves, shallow waters and marine life. This beach is also ideal for windsurfing.

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The Cayman Islands is comprised of three islands, the Little Cayman, Cayman Brac and Grand Cayman. All these three islands offer Caribbean visitors some of the most luxurious and beautiful resort and hotel accommodations in the region. All three also are famous for their fabulously beautiful beaches. Here are some of the Cayman Islands best beaches:

Rum Point – Rum Point is one of the best beaches in the Cayman Islands that is ideal for family vacations. The water on this beach is calm and shallow making it safe for children to swim and wade.

Seven Mile Beach – this is a crescent shaped beach made of white coral sands and is famous for its spectacular beauty. It was named “The Best Caribbean Beach” by the Caribbean Travel and Life Magazine. It is the most developed and popular beach in Grand Cayman and is where most of the luxurious hotels and resorts are located. It also offers everything from restaurants to water sports to shops to sport equipments rentals.

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Spotts Beach – This white sand beach is perfect for those who want some peace and solitude. It is surrounded by barrier reefs that account for the calm water all year round and framed by ironshore cliffs that make it secluded and peaceful. There are no big hotels in Spotts Beach which is found in Spots Newland but there are benches and huts perfect for lazing out in the sun.

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Smith Cove – This beach is one of the best beaches in the Cayman islands that is a big favorite of both tourists and locals. It is a lovely beach and ideal for snorkeling, diving, picnics and just lazing around. The limestone surrounding the beach gives it a very romantic vibes and perfect as a wedding location. It can be found on South Sound close to the cruise port.

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Puerto Rico is an American territory with the culture and flavor that are completely Latino. Being a US territory though makes Puerto Rico a more modern and more highly developed among the islands around the Caribbean. But this is not the only reason why Puerto Rico is one of the most fashionable and popular destination in the region. Puerto Rico has some of the most beautiful beaches in the Caribbean. Some of the beaches in Puerto Rico are:

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Flamenco Beach – This beach is located on the north side of Culebra, an island municipality of Puerto Rico and believed to be one of the loveliest beaches in the Caribbean and Discovery Channel’s second most beautiful beach in the world. Flamenco is a fantastic beach for sunbathing, swimming and snorkeling

Sun Bay Beach – This beach is located in the island of Vieques and is a picture perfect beach. It is one of the beaches in Purto Rico that is a big favorite of both tourists and local.

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Blue Beach – This is a long stretch of white sand beach located in Vieques that is great for snorkeling. It has one of the most beautiful view of all the beaches in Puerto Rico with multi-colored fishes swimming in the clear blue waters.

Condado Beach – Condado Beach is a popular beach in Puerto Rico even as far back as the 1920s making San Juan, the capital city of Puerto Rico a resort town even as far back. The beach is lined with high rise hotels making it look more like a Miami beach.

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Isla Verde Beach – This is the widest and longest beach in Puerto Rico that is perfect for swimming. Its beachfront is occupied by luxurious high rise hotels , restaurants, cafes and water sport equipment rental kiosk for snorkeling, parasailing and other water sports.

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Barbados is such a beautiful island. It rightly deserves to be called the jewel of the Caribbean. Barbados is the land of beautiful beaches where visitors can do all the water activities they’ve ever dreamed of, from a lazy swim in the calm water of the Caribbean snorkeling, scuba diving plus a fantastic nightlife. Here are some of the best beaches of Barbados:

Accra Beach – This is the biggest and most beautiful beach in Barbados that is very popular with tourists and locals. Accra Beach is in Hastings, Christ Church and has a wide selection of resorts, hotels,, restaurants and sports bar lining the beach. Accra Beach is the ideal place for a quiet swim, body surfing, people watching and boogie boarding.

Photo by Meg Stewart

Bathsheba Soup Bowl, Tent Bay – Bathsheba is a magnificently lovely beach with powdery white sand beaches and one of the best beaches in Barbados. It has a spectacular coastline made out of amazing rock formation where the surf breaks in powerful force and the ideal beach for surfing.

Bottom Bay, St Philip – Bottom Bay is an isolated cove with soft white sand that is the perfect haven and peaceful retreat because of the towering cliffs enclosing it.

Brighton Beach, Bridgetown – This is an awesomely lengthy beach with few breaks of reef and rock and calm and placid waves, a big favorite of both locals and tourists, one of the best beaches in Barbados.

Rockley Beach – This is one of the widest and longest white sand beaches in Barbados and one of its fun beaches. Rockley Beach is a very busy beach with gentle waves and very little undertow.

Paradise Beach – Paradise beach is another best beach in Barbados. Only a small wooded area separates Paradise Beach from Brighton Beach. It is a stunningly beautiful beach with calm and placid water, rock formation that is very close to the surface of the water, perfect for snorkeling.

The best Caribbean beaches in Cuba are a beach lover’s paradise. Cuba is one place in the world endowed with some of the most beautiful beaches in this planet. In addition to hundreds of kilometers of pristine white sand beaches, Cuba is also surrounded by over 1,000 cayos or keys, small islands with powdery sand beaches encircling them, most of which are secluded and unspoiled. A number of these beaches and cayos are also well developed with hotels and resorts ranging from the very expensive and exclusive to the more moderate and affordable accommodations to cater to the needs of tourists. Here are some of the best beaches in Cuba

Varadero Beach – One of the most beautiful and best beaches in Cuba is Verdadero Beach. It is located in the Verdadero Peninsula and part of the province of Matanzas in the north coast of Cuba. In spite of its stunning beauty, Verdadero Beach is not as crowded as would be expected of beaches of its quality. It may be the busiest beach in Cuba but it only has more than 100 hotels to cater to the needs of the tourists. The beach is close to the town center of Verdadero where tourists can find restaurants, amusement parks, local bars and nightclubs and even cabarets.

Cayo Santa Maria, Cayo las Brujas and Cayo Ensenacho beaches – These trio of cayos form part of Cayo de la Herradura , a cluster of small islands located in the central part of Cuba off the northern coast of Villa Clara. These island paradises with picture perfect white sand beaches are considered to constitute some of the best beaches in Cuba. They are surrounded by crystalline and shallow blue waters perfect for a quiet swim.

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Cayo Largo Beach – The Cayo Largo del Sur is the ideal haven for tourists in search of a romantic and secluded getaway. It is the second biggest island that compose the four island Canarreos Archipelago surrounding the main Cuban island. Cayo Largo is a popular wedding and honeymoon destination because of its natural beauty and the outstanding facilities of the hotel in the island.

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Cayo Coco and Cayo Guillermo Beach – Cayo Coco Beach and Cayo Guillermo Beach are two of the best beaches in Cuba and are true paradise here on earth located in one of the most spectacular coral reefs in the world. These cayos are connected to the Isla de Turiguano by a pedraplén, a 27 km highway over the sea that is considered a great engineering feat. A drive through the pedraplén will endow visitors a fabulous view of the lush and beautiful Cayo Coco and a most amazing view of flamingos sunning themselves along the highway.

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Guardalavaca – Another one of the best beaches in Cuba is Guardalavaca, a perfect destination for snorkeling and diving because of the fabulous coral reefs found only a short distance from the beach. It is also a great beach for simple relaxation and swimming and also for fishing.

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It is claimed that the most beautiful beaches in the Caribbean can be found in the Bahamas. The best beaches in the Bahamas are stunningly lovely. This could be a reason why many named international resort and hotel companies have built in some of these beaches while other amazingly beautiful beaches are isolated and totally unspoiled. Here are some of the best beaches in the Bahamas:

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Cable Beach – Cable Beach is New Providence Island a few distance away from Nassau, the capital of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. This is one of the best beaches in the Bahamas world famous for its sparkling white sand beach and upscale hotels and resorts that line the shoreline. It has become the playground of the rich and the famous.

Cabbage Beach – Cabbage Beach in Paradise Island, an island just off the coast of Nassau is also considered one of the best beaches in the Bahamas. This is the ideal beach for swimming, sunbathing and enjoying all kinds of water sports such as snorkeling, water-skiing, parasailing and more. The beach is also lines with some of the most luxurious resorts and hotels in the Caribbean.

Xanadu Beach – Xanadu Beach is part of the long shoreline of the Grand Bahamas Island and a popular beach near the International Bazaar. There are a lot of things to do on Xanadu Beach since this is one of the most popular and busiest beach in the Bahamas.

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But there are many private and quiet beaches that extend from Xanadu on both sides.

Tahiti Beach – Tahiti Beach is located at the far end of Elbow Cay close to Hope Town. It is one of the secluded beaches in the Bahamas but its powdery white sand and cool and calm blue waters make it one of the best beaches in the Bahamas.

Other beautiful beaches in the Bahamas are Ten Bay Beach and Pink Sand Beach in Eleuthera, Saddle Cay and Stocking Island in the Exumas and Cat island in Sothern Bahamas.

Caribbean beaches are not only some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. These beaches are also considered as major resort beaches in the Caribbean because of the proliferation of luxurious resort and hotels in the area. Caribbean beaches have become the playground of the rich and the famous, and even with ordinary folks like you and me and because of the numerous hotels resorts, bars and water sports equipment rental establishments visitors will never lack of activities to do, places to go –daytime or nighttime. Three of the major resort beaches in the Caribbean are:

Palm Beach, Aruba
Palm Beach, the famous 2 mile strip of beautiful white sand is Aruba’s most famous beach and plays host to sensational resorts and hotels owned and managed by the most famous names in the world’s hotel industry.

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It is also home to numerous beach bars, piers, restaurant, water sports concessions and shops, making day time and after dark activities truly exciting. It has a perfectly calm sea perfect for swimming and snorkeling and a long stretch of soft powdery white sand ideal for early morning or late afternoon quiet rambling or vigorous jogging.

Orient Beach, St. Maarten
Orient Beach in St. Maartenis called the French Riviera of the Caribbean. It is the most popular, the busiest and the most developed beach in the St. Marteen and is even regarded as the most famous beach in all of the Caribbean.

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Orient beach is a beautiful 1 mile expanse of sparklingly white sand and even offers one section of each as a swimwear optional beach (nude beach).

Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Punta Cana is the most famous vacation resort “town” in the Dominican Republic because of the large number of resort and hotels that abound in the area that offer all kinds of after sunset fun including shows with a Vegas flair and day time activities that include golf.

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It is a perfect vacation place where visitors can enjoy the well-touted Caribbean crystalline water, pure white sandy beach and bright sun.

St. Lucia is an island paradise in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It is the ideal haven for adventure, romance and home of some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. All the best beaches in St. Lucia, including those that are the homes of top resorts are open to the public. The wild and scenic beaches on the eastern side of the island faces the strong waves and turbulent waters of the Atlantic while those on the Western side face the serene and blue waters of the Caribbean. Here are three of the best beaches of St. Lucia

Reduit Beach
REduit Beach is located on the northern coast of St. Lucia close to Rodney Bay making Reduit an unusually long beach for St. Lucia. it is also quite close to the town so visitors can explore the town after a lovely swim. It is one of the most popular beach in the island with several hotels located nearby the closes of which are the Sandals Grand St Lucian spa and Beach Resort and Rex Resort Royal.

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Anse Chastanet
Anse Chastanet is a pretty beach in a natural setting featuring large lush palm trees that provide shade to cool beachgoers and give them some respite from the baking heat of the afternoon sun. it has lovely fine white sand framed by rolling green hills offering a breath-taking contrast. For those who are in search of privacy and seclusion Anse Chastanet, one of the best beaches of St. Lucia is perfect for them. it may be secluded but still close enough to amenities and facilities that visitors will never lack for anything.

Photo by Andrew Love

Jalousie Beach
Jalousie Beach, one of the best beaches of St. Lucia, is found in the extravagantly beautiful southwestern coast of St. Lucia between the towns of Choiseul and Soufriere. Behind jalousie Brach are some of the St. Lucia’s prime resorts and hotels and visitors who are not guests of the can use their facilities such as beach umbrellas, reclining chairs, refreshments and food. Jalousie Beach is framed by two towering hills called the Pitons, one of the most famous landmarks of St. Lucia.

Photo by “Cowboy” Ben Alman

Beaches located in areas far from roads and the city lights are likely to keep their shine and luster. Secluded beaches in the Caribbean where diamonds sparkle due to clear water are found in the beaches of St. Kitts and Nevis. The seclusion made the beaches preserve their natural born beauty.

The beaches found in St. Kitts and Nevis are considered to be the most preserved beaches in the world. Eye-catching beaches and beach hotels in St Kitts are:  South Frigate Bay, South Friar’s Bay, Timothy Beach Resort, Hotel Le Toiny, Anacaona Boutique Hotel, Ottley’s Plantation Inn, St. Kitts Marriot Resort and the Royal Beach Casino, Ocean Terrace Inn and Bird Rock Beach Hotel.

South Frigate Bay

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Brilliant beaches in Nevis are:  Cades Bay, Oualie Beach and Pinneys Beach. The days you spend in the calmness and sparks of the beaches in St Kitts and Nevis will make your entire system in tuned.

Oftentimes, I wonder how it feels like to own a beach in St. Lucia. My friends and I went to a vacation to St. Lucia to free ourselves from pressures and anxieties. I was looking forward to this escapade to ease the disappointment I had on my project rejection in the company I’m working for. I joined them so that I can be at peace. The beaches that we went to are the finest and the most lovable beaches you can find in St. Lucia. We went to Reduit Beach, Jalouise Beach and Anse Chastanet.

Reduit Beach, St. Lucia

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We can’t afford to explore all of the beautiful beaches because our budget was only limited. The experience was fun; I’ve enjoyed it a lot. It was an escapade that I’m looking forward to experience again. Beaches are the best place to acquire peace and serenity inside because they are calm and rich with nature’s love. My experience made me think of owning one but it would take a miracle. But at least I was able to experience true beauty in our stay in the brilliant beaches of St. Lucia.

Anse Chastanet Beach

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