About Luxcarib
Written by Chris Maloy
Luxcarib is one person's site. I'm Chris — I live in the New York area, and most of the Caribbean travel I do starts with a nonstop out of JFK or Newark. I've stayed at these resorts as a couple and, more recently, with a young daughter in tow, which turns out to change almost everything about what makes a luxury resort good.
I started this because the “best luxury resorts in” articles I kept finding were written by people who had clearly never been there. They never mentioned whether the kids' club was real or just a room with crayons, or that a resort's adults-only pool is thirty feet from the family one. Those are the details that decide whether a $1,000-a-night stay works.
What I have and haven't experienced
I try to be exact about this, because it's the whole point. Of the 22 destinations Luxcarib covers, I have personally stayed on 5:
Those pages carry a “we stayed here” badge. Everywhere else is researched, and says so. A day trip doesn't count as a stay — I've been to the British Virgin Islands for a day from St. Thomas, and that guide is still marked as not visited, because a day on a boat doesn't tell you what the hotels are like.
Where the numbers come from
Rates are sampled live from a hotel inventory API for specific dates, not quoted as fixed prices. Separately, Luxcarib stores a weekly price snapshot for every tracked resort, which is what lets the deals page compare a rate against that hotel's own trailing average rather than against a marketing “was” price. A deal here means a resort is cheaper than it usually is.
The nonstop-flight data — 19 of 22 destinations are reachable without a connection from JFK or Newark — is transcribed from airline schedules and re-verified quarterly, with two routes flagged as winter-seasonal rather than year-round.
How this is paid for
Affiliate commissions on hotel bookings, disclosed on every page that carries a link. No hotel pays to be listed, ranked higher, or to have an unflattering note taken out. If a resort didn't work for us, that's in the write-up.
Questions, corrections, or a resort you think I've got wrong — get in touch. Corrections are welcome and I've made a few already.
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