12 New Caribbean Resorts Opening in 2025, From Saint Lucia to Puerto Rico 

After a lighter yr of lodge openings within the Caribbean in 2024, the area is poised for a variety of large debuts in 2025, notably within the luxurious phase. Which means a variety of very cool opening which have us amped up for subsequent yr. So what are the most important traits within the Caribbean lodge pipeline? Nicely, when you’ve been following the area within the final half-decade, you recognize the 2 largest developments: the rise of the residential resort, and the continued increase of all-inclusive. We’ve curated a listing of 12 properties that we’re enthusiastic about opening their doorways in 2025. In fact, there are much more Caribbean properties claiming to make their debut in “late 2025,” however when you’re accustomed to the lodge trade, the overwhelming majority of these will really be opening in 2026, so we’ll announce these on a hotel-by-hotel foundation. Listed below are our favorites, from Saint Lucia to Turks and Caicos to the Mexican Caribbean.

Sapphire Sands Villas, Saint Lucia The lodge we’re most intrigued by this yr is a nod to the most well liked pattern in Caribbean journey: the residential resort. This new villa-style resort from the beloved Bay Gardens assortment in Saint Lucia is a group of what the corporate calls “bespoke beachfront luxurious villas,” all set on what we name the most effective seashore in Saint Lucia: Reduit Seaside. It’s known as Sapphire Sands, and the property could have a mixture of double, king, one, two and three-bedroom models, all with kitchens, together with facilities like a six-treatment-room spa, a health heart and personalised butler service. Even higher? When you keep at Sapphire Sands you get entry to the 4 different Bay Gardens resorts and all of their facilities. Opening date? Summer time 2025.

Salterra Turks and Caicos has been booming within the post-pandemic interval, however all of that progress has been centered in a single place: the “principal” island of Providenciales. However a brand new hotspot could possibly be rising quickly on the island of South Caicos, which will likely be having a really large February, when two milestones occur: the first-ever flights from Miami to South Caicos on American Airways, and the debut of the highly-anticipated Salterra, a Luxurious Assortment Resort. The sustainability-focused resort could have 100 rooms, a strong spa, six meals and beverage ideas. It’s set a Feb. 15 opening date, with costs beginning at $1,349.

St Regis Aruba There’s a brand new degree of luxurious coming to Aruba, with the primary quarter debut of the first-ever St. Regis within the Dutch Caribbean. The property could have 252 rooms within the Uber-popular Palm Seaside space of the island, an outpost by celeb chef Akira Again and model signatures just like the St. regis Bar. Rooms at $1,109. 

Viva Miches by Wyndham, Dominican Republic The most recent addition to the favored Viva Wyndham all-inclusive model is within the fastest-growing vacation spot within the Dominican Republic: Miches, the gorgeous seashore spot on the bay of Samana. This 538-room resort could have a mixture of rooms (together with some with non-public swimming pools, 5 totally different eating places, a children membership and a wonderful principal pool. The most important story is the worth right here: Openign charges are as little as $153 per night time. 

Secrets and techniques Child Seaside, Aruba It’s been a very long time coming, however the first-ever Secrets and techniques in Aruba is lastly opening its doorways this yr on the glowing turquoise waters of Child Seaside within the southern nook of Aruba. The 304-room, adults-only Hyatt-portfolio property is now focusing on a June 2025 debut, and it’s already taking bookings, with costs at round $560 per night time. 

Paraiso de la Bonita, a Luxurious Assortment Grownup All-Inclusive Resort, Riviera Maya When it was a Zoëtry resort in its former life, it was one in all our favourite locations to remain within the Mexican Caribbean. Now, the brand new Paraiso de la Bonita will open within the first quarter, one other high-profile addition to Marriott’s rising all-inclusive portfolio, this time below the Luxurious Assortment model. Rooms at $483.

Kimpton Tres Rios Riviera Maya If it looks like each main model has been entering into the all-inclusive house in the previous couple of years, it’s effectively, as a result of it’s true. And now one other high hospitality model is entering into the act: Kimpton, which is debuting its new Tres Rios resort within the Riviera Maya within the first quarter. The trick will likely be taking Kimpton’s boutique really feel and translating it into an all-inclusive expertise, but when we’ve realized something from the corporate’s different Caribbean excellent resorts (Seafire, we’re you), it all the time manages to tug it off. Rooms at $1,139. 

Grand Hyatt Grand Cayman This residential resort will immediately be one of many high locations to remain on Seven Mile Seaside, a stretch of sand we’ve lengthy known as among the best within the Caribbean, if not the world. The 382-room seashore lodge could have six eating ideas, an enormous (9,000-square-foot) spa and, maybe most significantly, what Hyatt calls “one of many largest ballrooms within the Cayman Islands,” including one other essential conferences and incentive vacation spot for the island. 

W Punta Cana All-Inclusive We love the W model. It’s all the time been a dynamic, enjoyable, hip lodge choice irrespective of the place on the earth you’re staying. That’s why it’s exhausting to consider there hasn’t been a W within the Caribbean for the reason that W Vieques shuttered after Hurricane Irma. However that’s altering in 2025, with an thrilling twist: the brand new W Punta Cana will likely be an all-inclusive W, taking all the W signatures we love, from the Moist Deck to the Dwelling Room foyer right into a wallet-free expertise. 

Hilton Zemi Miches Sure, one other Miches property (a part of a giant pipeline of branded resorts on the best way in Miches, together with Marriott’s new resort that opened within the fall), this one below Hilton’s Curio Assortment model. So what do you get? 10 eateries, 4 swimming pools, a water park and, within the room class that’s most attention-grabbing, a group of bungalows on the seashore. It’s now taking bookings for Could 1 and past, with charges beginning at a really interesting $294 per night time. 

Verano San Juan The brand new Verano might fill what has been a somewhat sizable void in San Juan: the luxurious market. Whereas the capital is residence to some pretty smaller luxurious resorts, notably these which are a part of the unbelievable O:reside model, there actually hasn’t been a top-level luxurious resort in San Juan for the reason that closure of the Ritz-Carlton, San Juan (which is itself planning a relaunch). That would change this yr with the deliberate debut of the brand new Verano, a metamorphosis of a Fifties-era workplace constructing in that’s planning to open within the Spring. The perfect story? Will probably be a part of Main Resorts of the World which, in our opinion, is likely one of the most stable guarantors of lodge high quality wherever. 

St Regis Cap Cana In April, Marriott’s second new Caribbean St. Regis of 2025 will open its doorways on the fringe of the Punta Espada Golf Membership (a Jack Nicklaus observe that’s one in all our favourite place to play within the area), with 200 rooms (and sure, some swim-up choices), a fantastic seashore bar and a signature restaurant known as Nina.