Business Insider has released their ranker of the 25 best Caribbean islands based on the amount of coastline per square kilometer, hotel costs, number of attractions, and flight time from New York City. You can read about the full methodology that they used for the ranker here.
My family and I try to visit a new island each year during December (using miles and hotel points of course) and so I’ve been lucky enough to explore many of the countries on the list. I’m actually quite surprised by the top 6 or so choices…I would have gone with some of those that appear later in the list. I think a lot of this probably has to do with the weight that they’ve assigned to having direct flights from NYC and perhaps the coastline per square kilometer metric as well. You’ll find the list below, but browse on over to their site for a summary of why each island was selected and how they justify the rating for each. Thoughts?
- Puerto Rico
- Dominican Republic
- St Marteen
- Curacao
- The Bahamas
- Jamaica
- St Barts
- Cayman Islands
- US Virgin Islands
- St Kitts and Nevis
- Aruba
- Barbados (one of my favorites, highly underrated)
- Martinique
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Montserrat
- St. Lucia
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos
- British Virgin Islands
- Guadeloupe
- Dominica
- Grenada
- Anguilla
- Haiti
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines
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Last time I checked Haiti and Dominican Republic were the same island just different countries
And Antigua and Barbuda are two separate islands. Lists have to be consistent.