Bonaire doesn’t try to compete with Aruba. It doesn’t have the resort strips, the casinos, or the groomed white-sand beaches that fill travel brochures. What it…
Author: Ethan Brooks
Ethan Brooks
Ethan Brooks is a travel journalist and photographer based in Austin, Texas. He has covered adventure destinations, travel gear, food tourism, Europe, the Caribbean, Africa, and Southeast Asia for over a decade. His guides focus on honest, experience-based advice for serious travelers.
One island. Two countries. Zero border checks. St Maarten and St Martin pack more variety into 37 square miles than most Caribbean destinations manage across an…
Two countries. One island. Zero border control. The setup sounds simple until you’re actually trying to book a hotel and realise that where you sleep shapes…
Aruba has one of the highest repeat-visitor rates in the Caribbean and that alone should make you pause before writing it off as just another resort…
Aruba has a reputation for being expensive and that reputation isn’t entirely wrong. However, the real problem isn’t the island’s price tag. It’s that every budget…
Seven days in Aruba feels like exactly enough until you’re packing to leave. The problem with most Aruba itineraries is that they were written for someone…
Aruba has over 250 restaurants and almost no reliable way to choose between them. Every list you find online drops 20 restaurant names with no prices,…
Eagle Beach just won a top-five global ranking. Palm Beach has the bars, the jet skis, and the energy. Neither one has a snorkelling reef worth…
Pink flamingos on a Caribbean beach sounds like something from a travel fantasy. On Renaissance Island, it is Tuesday morning at 7:00 AM and if you…
Adventure travel is one of those categories where the planning resources are worse than useless. Tour operator guides push packages. Nonprofit sites push membership. Everyone else…