Wednesday February 15, 2012
Today's your final chance to enter a nomination in the 2012 About.com Readers' Choice Awards, including the awards for your Caribbean favorites. If you haven't already done so, please make a nomination for your most beloved Caribbean destination as well as the other Caribbean award categories. Finalists will be announced soon -- thanks to everyone who participated, we've got more than 300 nominees to choose from!
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Wednesday February 15, 2012
Uncommon Caribbean, a cool Caribbean travel and culture website run by brothers from St. Croix, is giving away a trip to the upcoming Miami Rum Renaissance Festival. The festival is a weeklong celebration of rum from around the world, featuring rum tastings, parties, cocktail contests, and much more.
Proclaiming February the "Month of Rum," UC will give one lucky rum-lover a pair of VIP passes to the festival (worth $500 total) plus $500 cash to spend on rum, rooms, food, or whatever else your heart desires. To enter, go to the Uncommon Caribbean website now through Feb. 29. The winner will be announced on March 1.
The Rum Renaissance Festival will be held April 16-22 at the Deauville Beach Resort in Miami Beach, Fla. For more information, see the event website.
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Tuesday February 14, 2012
Happy Valentine's Day, and here's hoping you and your sweetheart and snuggling your toes into the sand on a fabulous Caribbean beach! Speaking of which, we're still accepting nominees for the 2012 About.com Readers' Choice Awards in the category of Favorite Caribbean Beaches, so how about taking a minute to show some love for that special strand you dream about on chilly February days?
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Tuesday February 14, 2012
U.S. State Department has updated its travel warning on Mexico to include more detail on the ongoing drug violence and threats to visitors, but also spelling out which parts of the country are considered safe and which regions should be avoided by Americans.
Specifically, the Mexican Caribbean is excluded from the warning. That includes the entire province of Quintana Roo and Cancun, Cozumel, Playa del Carmen, the Riviera Maya, and Tulum; and the province of Yucatan, including Merida and Chichen Itza.
As I've noted before, the Mexican Caribbean is more than 1,000 miles away from the U.S.-Mexico border region, where most of the drug violence you see on TV occurs. Until and if this violence spreads to the Yucatan Peninsula -- and there's no sign of that happening -- you should not let the violence taking place more in the border region affect your decision to travel to Mexico's Caribbean beach destinations.
You can read the entire travel warning here.
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