The Caribbean is one of the most-booked honeymoon regions there is, up there with the Maldives, Bali, and Mexico. The trouble is there’s so much to choose from. Hundreds of islands, a glossy package on every one, and somewhere around the fourth open tab, they blur into the same beach and the same swim-up bar. Going all-inclusive is how most couples decide where to stay. After a year of juggling a guest list, a seating chart, and a budget, a week with the room, the meals, the drinks, and the airport transfer all handled is heaven.
The packages here are extravagant. A champagne zip line to a dining deck above the sea, a private island you reach by boat or helicopter, a candlelit dinner served on the sand with a butler not far away. After talking to these resorts, what stood out was the service behind all of it. Yes, they are in the honeymoon business, and a good share of their guests are newlyweds, but the staff treat every arrival as special, so even the grandest of these stays feels like it was arranged for you alone.
Spread across Grenada, Antigua, St Lucia, Aruba, the British Virgin Islands, and Honduras, here are the best all-inclusive Caribbean resorts for a honeymoon.
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Spice Island Beach Resort, Grenada
Set along Grenada’s most beautiful stretch of soft golden sand, Grand Anse Beach, the family-owned and operated Spice Island Beach Resort is an award-winning Caribbean retreat.
The location is peaceful with a backdrop of green hills and palms, but there are excellent restaurants and boutique shops a stroll (or cycle) away. Getting here is also a breeze. The airport is a mere 10 minutes away, so you can relax by the ocean within an hour of landing.
The resort is impeccably run, with outstanding heartfelt hospitality. This is one of the most important elements to consider when planning your honeymoon. It’s (hopefully) going to be the only time you have an experience like this, so making sure your every whim is catered to is vital.
Spice Island has 64 luxurious suites, 17 of which have private pools, and 32 of which open directly out onto Grand Anse Beach. The more elevated suites are recommended for couples. They grant guests a smidge more privacy and come with a direct line to call for assistance, aka another chilled bottle of Veuve.
The spa uses Grenada’s native spices and seaweed in its treatments, and there’s a cedar sauna, an outdoor relaxation lounge, and a cascading water wall to make use of. Your honeymoon package gets you a couples massage at Janissa’s Spa, which has four treatment rooms set around a charming courtyard, plus a private gourmet dinner for two, and membership at Grenada’s golf club.
Spice Island Beach Resort: Grand Anse Beach, The Lime, Grenada
Curtain Bluff, Antigua
Curtain Bluff occupies a beachfront stretch in Carlisle Bay, Antigua, looking out over a palm-shaded beach and the rocky promontory that gives the resort its name. The boutique all-inclusive is known for its 360-degree panorama over the Caribbean Sea, along with five-star amenities and service.
There’s quite a range of accommodations, but couples gravitate to the Pool Suites, four suites named Cliff, Terrace, Grace Bay, and Morris Bay, each with its own private plunge pool. The Grace Bay and Morris Bay suites take up the third floor of a Caribbean-style villa right on the surf beach. For honeymooners, though, Curtain Bluff points to the Terrace Suite, set apart at the top of the bluff for extra privacy.
When it comes to wellness treatments, you don’t need to venture far from the beach. The resort’s spa is steps from the sand, and on a clear day its open-air treatment rooms look out to Montserrat, Cades Reef, St. Kitts, Nevis, and Redonda. Afterward, you and your partner can unwind in the cliffside soaking tub.
On the honeymoon front, the resort lays on a private dinner for two on the beach with butler service, massages, and joint tennis lessons with the resident pros. There’s daily yoga on the deck above the water, plus an adults-only wellness area.
Curtain Bluff: Morris Bay St. Mary’s Parish Old Road, Antigua and Barbuda
Curtain Bluff: Morris Bay St. Mary’s Parish Old Road, Antigua and Barbuda
Cap Maison, St Lucia
This luxury boutique villa resort occupies a stretch of the exclusive Cap Estate in the north of St Lucia, and it’s one of the classiest places to stay on the island.
It’s also the best choice for foodies. Two of the island’s top restaurants are here, the fine-dining Cliff at Cap and the beachfront Naked Fisherman, and the resort hosts regular food events, pop-up dinners, and visiting chefs, with wine tastings down in Cellar Maison, the cellar under the main house that holds more than 2,000 bottles. The all-inclusive dining goes well beyond what other resorts in the region offer, and you won’t find a tired buffet anywhere. Breakfast at the panoramic Cliff at Cap is continental or full a la carte, lunch and dinner are three courses with daily specials like the morning’s local catch, and there are in-room drinks, premium spirits, and wines by the glass chosen by the resident sommelier.
The romance takes care of itself here. The setting is lovely enough that you might do little beyond enjoy each other’s company, though the honeymoon packages are extensive and worth a direct conversation with the resort to find the right fit. One worth knowing about is Peak to Beach, a six-night bundle split between Cap Maison and Ladera, the only St Lucia resort that looks directly onto the Pitons, with three nights at each and a spa treatment thrown in at both.
On top of the all-inclusive, honeymooners get a couples massage at Spa Maison and champagne on arrival. The two showpiece romantic touches are Rock Maison, a private dining deck reached by a champagne zip line, and a natural rockpool to sink into at sunset.
Cap Maison: Smugglers Cove Drive, Cap Estate, St Lucia
Jumby Bay, Antigua
You reach Jumby Bay only by private boat, a 10-minute crossing to a 300-acre island off Antigua where there are no cars and the only people you meet are guests, villa owners, or staff. That seclusion is what the Oetker Collection property sells, and it’s why it lands on so many lists of the Caribbean’s best all-inclusives. Service matches the setting, and honeymooners are usually pointed toward the Ocean View Suites, with verandas, open-air bathrooms, and uninterrupted ocean views, though the private villas are worth a look if you want more of a hideaway.
There’s water skiing, kayaking, wakeboarding, tennis, rum tastings, and cooking classes, plus a sailing academy where you can learn together with RYA-certified instructors and a dozen boats.
The island is also one of the Caribbean’s most important nesting grounds for the critically endangered hawksbill turtle. From June to November, guests can join the Turtle Watch led by the Jumby Bay Hawksbill Project, the longest continuously running hawksbill research program in the world, and help the field team tag nesting females on Pasture Bay Beach.
Jumby Bay: 10-minute boat transfer from mainland Antigua
Guana Island, British Virgin Islands
Guana Island gives couples a rare thing: 850 acres, seven beaches, and a cap of just 35 guests, so the place feels like your own. It’s a private island in the BVIs and a genuine wildlife sanctuary, with rare species like the Caribbean roseate flamingo and the stout iguana brought back through decades of conservation, and much of what you eat comes from an orchard planted on the island years ago.
Getting there requires you to fly into Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport near Tortola, then cross over by the resort’s boat or by helicopter. Couples tend to be steered to the North Beach Villa, the most private setting on the island, with its own beach, a sundeck, and pool. You can have it staffed so your meals are cooked for you, and a golf cart comes with it.
Dinner is a social, candlelit affair on the terraces of the Clubhouse, a 1934 building of island stone and coral that looks out over both the Atlantic and the Caribbean, though you can always eat privately if you’d rather. For honeymooners the resort will set up a picnic on a beach to yourselves, an outdoor film screening in the Garden of Eden, or a dinner among the fruit trees, and the chef will walk you through the orchard if you want to see where it all grows.
Guana Island: 10-minute private boat transfer from Tortola, or a five- to 10-minute helicopter ride from Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport
Manchebo Beach Resort and Spa, Aruba
Manchebo gives you Eagle Beach, the widest stretch of sand in Aruba and regularly ranked among the best beaches in the world, at a lower price than most of its neighbors, and it has made wellness its whole identity. Every morning there’s complimentary yoga and Pilates in open-air studios on the sand, and the Balinese-style Spa del Sol does its massages in private thatched cabanas a few steps from the water. The kitchen is unusually serious about plant-based food for the Caribbean, with a full vegan menu alongside the regular one, and for a resort of only 72 rooms there are four restaurants to move between, Ike’s Bistro for Mediterranean cooking, a chophouse, an omakase sushi bar, and the beach café. The premium all-inclusive plan covers a la carte meals across all of them.
Honeymooners get the sparkling wine and chocolate-covered strawberries, breakfast in bed, a candlelit dinner, and a sunset cruise, but the detail that sets Manchebo apart is the free night it gives you on your first wedding anniversary. It is betting you will want to come back, and on this beach that is not a hard bet to make.
Manchebo Beach Resort and Spa: J.E. Irausquin Blvd 55, Oranjestad, Aruba
Anse Chastanet Resort, St Lucia
Hidden in a jungle estate, Anse Chastanet is a resort with real character. The hillside rooms are individually designed and built into the slope, and many open right up to the elements, some missing a fourth wall entirely, with views of the Pitons and the Caribbean Sea. There are no TVs or radios, which suits the place. The estate runs to 600 acres, shared with sister resort Jade Mountain, and borders two soft-sand beaches, Anse Chastanet and Anse Mamin. Getting there means a bumpy ride down a dirt track from Soufrière in southwest St Lucia, with the Pitons in view most of the way.
The resort is the work of architect Nick Troubetzkoy, who also built Jade Mountain next door, and local art runs through all 49 rooms. For couples, the Piton Pool Suite comes with a private plunge pool, and the Beach House is a cottage set behind the beach in 18th-century French style.
A honeymoon here is an even split between an active beach holiday and time to do nothing at all. Anse Chastanet has the island’s biggest dive operation, Scuba St. Lucia, and excellent snorkeling on the protected reef just offshore, home to around 150 species of fish. The honeymoon package covers a guided snorkel or dive, two dives a day for certified divers, a half-day sail on the resort yacht, a tour of St. Lucia’s drive-in volcano, an escorted walk through the old French plantation at Anse Mamin, sunrise and sunset yoga, and French champagne, plus a $500 resort credit toward your first anniversary.
Anse Chastanet: 1 Anse Chastanet Road Soufriere, St Lucia
Hermitage Bay, Antigua
Hermitage Bay is for couples who want a quiet honeymoon and a chance to recover after a stressful wedding. The adults-only resort occupies a secluded cove on the west coast of Antigua, surrounded by 140 acres of lush, undeveloped land. You’ll likely fly into VC Bird International Airport, about 40 minutes away, with transfers included if you stay three nights or more, and the capital, St John’s, is a 25-minute drive if you want a day out.
The 30 newly renovated villa suites are scattered across the hillside and gardens. For honeymooners the resort steers you toward the Hillside Pool Villas, set high among the trees with views over the bay, a roll-top bath, an outdoor shower, and a deck with sun loungers and a double daybed. Service is warm and close without being formal, and a couples treatment at the open-air Garden Spa is simple to arrange, along with a private boat charter when you want time on the water.
The kitchen cooks island dishes from the resort’s own garden, and the newly opened beach club has made lobster its signature, served with your feet in the sand. There’s daily yoga and Pilates, cooking demonstrations, and snorkeling and paddleboarding off the beach when you feel like moving.
Hermitage Bay: Jennings New Extension Hermitage Bay, Antigua and Barbuda
Kimpton Grand Roatán Resort and Spa, Honduras
Kimpton Grand Roatán works well for couples who want a honeymoon with some adventure to it. The resort is on West Bay Beach on Roatán, and the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, the second largest in the world, lies right offshore, so you can snorkel or dive together straight from the sand. It isn’t all-inclusive, but the packages are what make it worth booking, with options for romance, diving, and dining, including one that gives you $100 a day each to spend across the four restaurants.
The 122 rooms and suites are modern and stylish. Couples have a few ways to go, from the west-facing rooms that catch the sunset to specialty suites with private balcony plunge pools, or the standalone bungalows set back on their own if you want more seclusion. Treatments at the Kao Kamasa Spa, which has its own cliffside garden pool, is simple to arrange, and the honeymoon extras include champagne and dessert sent to your room when you arrive. You can fill the days diving, kayaking, and doing yoga, or do nothing beyond moving between your room, the cabanas, and the pool.
Kimpton Grand Roatán Resort and Spa: West Bay Beach, Bay Islands, Honduras
Oil Nut Bay, Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands
Oil Nut Bay feels like a private island even though it’s part of Virgin Gorda. The resort covers 400 acres on the island’s eastern tip with no public roads in or out, reached only by boat or helicopter, and once you’re there you travel by electric cart. It isn’t all-inclusive, but it goes a long way for couples after a private, outdoorsy honeymoon, with a reef offshore and a quiet corner of the BVIs largely to yourselves.
The villas are custom-built into the island’s topography and decorated in greens and blues that draw the outdoors in, with floor-to-ceiling windows and full-length doors opening onto terraces and gardens. For honeymooners the resort points to the one-bedroom Cliff Penthouse, set at the highest point of the Cliff Suites on a rocky bluff above the coastline, with a wraparound terrace and a large infinity pool. It’s one of the most sought-after rentals in the BVIs, and the spa can arrange in-villa treatments.
A dedicated concierge will shape your days, arranging private excursions and the resort’s sunset sails, along with paddleboarding, kayaking, tennis, and pickleball when you want them. The Beach Club has three pools and a bar, and the kitchen will cook private chef dinners in your villa or on the beach, plus romantic picnics in quiet corners of the property.
Oil Nut Bay: Oil Nut Bay, Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands 