Cheapest Caribbean islands to visit

Kirsten Henton

Kirsten Henton

Caribbean sunrise, Dominican Republic
Caribbean sunrise, Dominican Republic © samewell - Fotolia.com

Cheapest Caribbean Islands to visit

  Destination Rating Holidays Flights Hotels Food/drink
1 Dominican Republic ££ 🌞🌞 🛫🛫🛫 🛌 🥗🥗
2 Barbados ££ 🌞 🛫 🛌🛌🛌 🥗🥗🥗
3 St Kitts & Nevis ££ 🌞🌞 🛫🛫 🛌🛌 🥗🥗🥗
4 Cuba† ££ 🌞🌞🌞 🛫🛫🛫 🛌🛌 🥗
5 St Lucia ££ 🌞🌞 🛫 🛌🛌🛌🛌 🥗🥗
6 Jamaica ££ 🌞🌞 🛫🛫🛫 🛌🛌 🥗🥗
7 Trinidad & Tobago ££ 🌞🌞🌞 🛫🛫 🛌🛌🛌 🥗🥗
8 Aruba £££ 🌞🌞🌞 🛫🛫 🛌🛌🛌🛌 🥗🥗🥗
9 St Vincent & the Grenadines £££ 🌞🌞🌞🌞 🛫🛫🛫 🛌🛌🛌 🥗🥗
10 Antigua & Barbuda £££ 🌞🌞🌞 🛫🛫 🛌🛌🛌🛌 🥗🥗🥗
11 Dominica† £££ 🌞🌞🌞🌞 n/a 🛌🛌🛌 🥗🥗
12 Puerto Rico £££ 🌞🌞🌞 🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫 🛌 🥗🥗🥗
13 Grenada £££ 🌞🌞🌞 🛫🛫🛫 🛌🛌🛌🛌 🥗🥗
14 Curacao £££ 🌞🌞🌞🌞 🛫🛫🛫 🛌🛌 🥗🥗🥗
15 Guadeloupe £££ n/a 🛫🛫🛫🛫 🛌🛌🛌 🥗🥗🥗
16 Martinique £££ n/a 🛫🛫🛫🛫 🛌🛌 🥗🥗🥗🥗
17 Sint Maarten £££ n/a 🛫🛫🛫🛫 🛌🛌🛌 🥗🥗🥗
18 St Martin £££ n/a 🛫🛫🛫🛫 🛌🛌🛌 🥗🥗🥗
19 Bonaire ££££ n/a 🛫🛫🛫 🛌🛌🛌🛌 🥗🥗🥗🥗
20 Turks & Caicos ££££ 🌞🌞🌞🌞 🛫🛫🛫 🛌🛌🛌🛌 🥗🥗🥗🥗
21 British Virgin Islands ££££ n/a 🛫🛫🛫 🛌🛌🛌🛌🛌 🥗🥗🥗🥗
22 Bahamas ££££ 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞 🛫🛫🛫 🛌🛌🛌🛌 🥗🥗🥗🥗🥗
23 Anguilla ££££ 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞 🛫🛫🛫🛫 🛌🛌🛌🛌 🥗🥗🥗🥗
24 US Virgin Islands £££££ n/a 🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫 🛌🛌🛌🛌 🥗🥗🥗🥗🥗
25 Cayman Islands £££££ 🌞🌞🌞🌞 🛫🛫🛫🛫 🛌🛌🛌🛌🛌🛌 🥗🥗🥗🥗🥗🥗
26 St Barthelemy ££££££ 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞 🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫 🛌🛌🛌🛌🛌🛌 n/a

The following Caribbean islands are currently excluded from the research due to lack of available data: Haiti, Montserra, Saba and Sint Eustatius.

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Cheapest Caribbean holidays from the UK

  Destination Rating No of providers found Cheapest 7-night holidays
1 Barbados 🌞 11 £459
2 Jamaica 🌞🌞 11 £605
3 Dominican Republic 🌞🌞 9 £669
4 St Lucia 🌞🌞 10 £670
5 St Kitts and Nevis 🌞🌞 3 £722
6 Aruba 🌞🌞🌞 7 £734
7 Trinidad and Tobago 🌞🌞🌞 7 £751
8 Antigua and Barbuda 🌞🌞🌞 10 £773
9 Cuba 🌞🌞🌞 2 £799
10 Grenada 🌞🌞🌞 10 £913
11 Puerto Rico 🌞🌞🌞 1 £1,302
12 Turks & Caicos 🌞🌞🌞🌞 4 £964
13 St Vincent & the Grenadines 🌞🌞🌞🌞 3 £1,161
14 Curacao 🌞🌞🌞🌞 5 £1,348
15 Cayman Islands 🌞🌞🌞🌞 3 £1,411
16 Dominica 🌞🌞🌞🌞 1 £1,709
17 Bahamas 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞 8 £1,315
18 Anguilla 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞 1 £2,095
19 St Barthelemy 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞 1 £5,527

There are 11 Caribbean islands excluded from the list of holidays above due to limited or no holiday availability including some of the special municipalities of the Netherlands and overseas department and region of France.

  • Bonaire
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Guadeloupe
  • Haiti
  • Martinique
  • Montserrat
  • Saba
  • Sint Eustatius
  • Sint Maarten
  • St Martin
  • US Virgin Islands

Holiday prices are per person based on two adults sharing for a seven-night stay and have been extracted from the following holiday providers:

  • Blue Bay Travel
  • British Airways
  • Expedia
  • First Choice
  • Kenwood Travel
  • Love Holidays
  • On the Beach
  • Sandals
  • TUI
  • Thomas Cook
  • Travelbag
  • US Virgin Holidays

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Cheapest flights to the Caribbean

  Destination Rating Direct from UK Cheapest fares
1 Barbados 🛫 Yes £300
2 St Lucia 🛫 Yes £321
3 Antigua & Barbuda 🛫🛫 Yes £431
4 Aruba 🛫🛫 Yes £484
5 St Kitts & Nevis 🛫🛫 Yes £489
6 Trinidad & Tobago 🛫🛫 No £498
7 St Vincent & the Grenadines 🛫🛫🛫 Yes £547
8 Dominican Republic 🛫🛫🛫 Yes £551
9 Grenada 🛫🛫🛫 Yes £551
10 Jamaica 🛫🛫🛫 Yes £551
11 Cuba 🛫🛫🛫 No £558
12 British Virgin Islands 🛫🛫🛫 No £621
13 Bahamas 🛫🛫🛫 Yes £637
14 Curacao 🛫🛫🛫 No £643
15 Bonaire 🛫🛫🛫 No £646
16 Turks & Caicos 🛫🛫🛫 Yes £647
17 Sint Maarten 🛫🛫🛫🛫 No £656
18 Anguilla 🛫🛫🛫🛫 No £664
19 Haiti 🛫🛫🛫🛫 No £665
20 St Martin 🛫🛫🛫🛫 No £677
21 Guadeloupe 🛫🛫🛫🛫 No £761
22 Martinique 🛫🛫🛫🛫 No £761
23 Cayman Islands 🛫🛫🛫🛫 Yes £788
24 Sint Eustatius 🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫 No £878
25 Puerto Rico 🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫 No £889
26 US Virgin Islands 🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫 No £897
27 St Barthelemy 🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫 No £912
28 Saba 🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫 No £952

No flight information could be found for Dominica and Montserrat from the UK.

Cheapest airlines flying to the Caribbean

There are three airlines operating direct flights to the Caribbean from the UK. These are Virgin Atlantic, British Airways and TUI; these tend to offer the cheapest flights.

Virgin Atlantic Airbus A350
Virgin Atlantic Airbus A350 © Alan Wilson - Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0

There are also indirect flights from continental Europe with KLM, Air France and Iberia and via the USA with American Airlines (and it's IAG partner airlines) or multiple airline combinations.

Destination Virgin BA TUI KLM Air France Iberia AA
Antigua & Barbuda Yes Yes No No No No Yes
Aruba No Yes No Yes No No Yes
Bahamas Yes Yes No No No No Yes
Barbados Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes
Bonaire No No No Yes No No Yes
Cayman Islands No Yes No No No No Yes
Cuba No No No No Yes Yes Yes
Curacao No No No Yes No No Yes
Dominican Republic No Yes Yes No Yes No Yes
Grenada Yes Yes No No No No Yes
Guadeloupe No No No No Yes No No
Haiti No No No No No No Yes
Jamaica Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes
Martinique No No No No Yes No No
Puerto Rico No No No No No Yes Yes
Sint Maarten No No No No Yes No Yes
St Barthelemy No No No No Yes No No
St Kitts & Nevis No Yes No No No No Yes
St Lucia Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes
St Martin No No No No Yes No No
St Vincent & the Grenadines Yes No No No No No Yes
Trinidad & Tobago No Yes No Yes No No Yes
Turks & Caicos Yes Yes No No No No Yes
US Virgin Islands No No No No No No Yes

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How we've rated the Caribbean islands

We've identified the top 26 cheapest islands in the Caribbean to visit in 2025/2026 by comparing the costs for different elements to give us an overall rating: accommodation, food and drink, flights and complete holiday packages.

Find out more about each element and how the ratings are calculated. We have made some assumptions to allow us to compare Caribbean islands.

Overall rating

The overall rating for each island gives an indication of the combined costs of visiting for a seven-night stay. The rating is on a scale from 1 (the cheapest) to 6 (most expensive).

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Holiday prices

One of the cheapest ways to visit the Caribbean is by booking a package holiday which typically includes flights and accommodation (and in some cases hotel transfers too). If you choose all inclusive holidays, then almost all your costs are included in the price.

Our holiday rating is based on real holiday prices extracted from popular holiday providers, online travel agents and tour operators including TUI, Virgin Holidays and Sandals. We've ranked each destination for each provider to give an overall score and the cheapest holiday price for a seven-night stay.

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Note: other accommodation types are available on islands including resorts, villas and private rentals, however, for the purpose of the research we have focused on hotel accommodation.

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Flight prices

If you prefer to book separate flights and accommodation, you'll be interested in the cheapest flights to Caribbean islands from the UK.

We've researched the lowest fares available from airlines flying direct to the Caribbean from the UK including Virgin Atlantic, British Airways and TUI plus selected airlines offering indirect flights to the Caribbean via continental Europe and the USA including KLM, Air France and Iberia.

In addition, we checked Skyscanner and Kayak for additional flight options. We've rated the Caribbean islands based on the cheapest flight prices we've found.

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🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫 most expensive

Note: No flight information was found for Dominica and Montserrat.

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Hotel accommodation

Where you are staying can be one of the most expensive parts of a holiday to the Caribbean. If you're not booking combined flights+hotel holiday, you'll be interested to check the cheapest hotel accommodation for each Caribbean island.

Our accommodation rating is based on real hotel prices extracted from Booking.com based on the typical cheapest hotel accommodation (4* or higher) on the island for a seven-night stay for two adults in the middle of the month (over the next 12 months).

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🛌🛌🛌🛌🛌🛌 most expensive

Note: other accommodation types are available on islands including resorts, villas and private rentals, however, for the purpose of the research we have focused on hotel accommodation.

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Food & drink

Eating out is a major part of the experience when enjoying a holiday in the Caribbean. Soaking up the local cuisine, bars and nightlife are what drive many of us to travel to the islands of the Caribbean.

We've included two elements in our ratings: food and drink. Travellers will have their own requirements, however, our ratings take into account the different options available on each island to allow us to compare.

Our food & drink ratings are based on a mix of three-course meals, inexpensive meals and cheaper food options and a mix of hot drinks, soft drinks and alcoholic drinks for two adults for a seven-night stay on the Caribbean island.

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🥗🥗🥗🥗🥗🥗 most expensive

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Data sources

Our cheapest places are rated based on multiple data sources and calculations to find comparable costs of visiting each island for a seven-night stay.

Flight prices have been extracted from airline websites and flight comparison engines in November 2024 to find the lowest available fares from the UK to each Caribbean destination.

  • Virgin Atlantic
  • British Airways
  • TUI
  • KLM
  • Air France
  • Iberia
  • Skyscanner
  • Kayak

Holiday prices have been extracted for each Caribbean island from 12 popular UK holiday providers, online travel agents and tour operators in November 2024 for Caribbean holidays from the UK over the next 12 months.

  • Blue Bay Travel
  • British Airways
  • Expedia
  • First Choice
  • Kenwood Travel
  • Love Holidays
  • On the Beach
  • Sandals
  • TUI
  • Thomas Cook
  • Travelbag
  • Virgin Holidays

Hotel accommodation prices have been extracted from Booking.com in November 2024 for stays over the next 12 months.

Costs for food and drink have been extracted from Numbeo.com in November 2024.

The following Caribbean islands are currently excluded from the research due to lack of available data: Haiti, Montserrat, Saba and Sint Eustatius.

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Kirsten Henton

Kirsten Henton

Kirsten Henton is Weather2Travel.com's editor. Kirsten writes, commissions and edits our travel features, liaising with our contributors and ensuring copy is spick-and-span. A member of the British Guild of Travel Writers, Kirsten also freelances writing articles on travel, history and the outdoors for titles such as Scotland Magazine and BBC Travel.



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