Most expensive Caribbean islands

Kirsten Henton

Kirsten Henton

From luxury resorts to out-of-this-world experiences, it's perhaps no great surprise that it's very easy to splurge in this most desirable of regions. Below, we've worked out which are the most expensive Caribbean islands to help you either steer clear or plan the most lavish trip.

Dive into adventures new in the British Virgin Islands
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Most expensive Caribbean islands to visit

Here, we take a look at the most expensive Caribbean islands you can visit, taking into consideration the cost of a complete holiday as well as individual elements such as flights, accommodation and how each destination stacks up when it comes to eating and drinking, just in case you're wondering where to go to really splash the cash.

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

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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How we've rated the Caribbean islands

We've identified the top 20 most expensive 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.

Grenada, getting to grips with the Spice Isle
Grenada, getting to grips with the Spice Isle © pkazmierczak - Fotolia.com

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).

Symbol Rating
£ cheapest
£ £ £ £ £ £ 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.

Be seduced by Curaçao
Be seduced by Curaçao © Fokke Baarssen - Adobe Stock Image

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.

Symbol Rating
🌞 cheapest
🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞 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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Flight prices

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

Maho Beach in Sint Maarten
Maho Beach in Sint Maarten © Nenad Basic - Adobe Stock Image

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 alternative flight options. We've rated the Caribbean islands based on the flight prices we've found.

Symbol Rating
🛫 cheapest
🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫 most expensive

† - 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 a combined flights+hotel holiday, you'll be interested in the prices for hotel accommodation for each Caribbean island.

Street in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
Street in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico © Mikolajn - Fotolia.com

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).

Symbol Rating
🛌 cheapest
🛌🛌🛌🛌🛌🛌 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.

Remember to stay hydrated
Remember to stay hydrated © Julija Sapic - Fotolia.com

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

Symbol Rating
🥗 cheapest
🥗🥗🥗🥗🥗🥗 most expensive

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Data sources

Our most expensive 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 were extracted from airline websites and flight comparison engines in November 2024 to find the lowest available fares from the UK to each Caribbean destination.

Holiday prices were 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.

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

Costs for food and drink were 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.

Posted on Wednesday 15th January 2025

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