Beach vacationing in the Caribbean Islands is a unique treat starting with the Dominican Republic or the “DR”. Many famous people and couples have begun their beach vacations in the DR and ended up owning homes at the Puntacana Resort & Club at Tortuga Bay including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Oscar de la Renta, Julio Iglesias and Bill and Hillary Clinton. Special beach vacationing VIP guests are treated to their own separate air terminal for their private jets.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were first beach vacationers at the brand new, five-star hotel Hilton Santo Domingo in the ultra plush Presidential suite which has a commanding view of the ocean. Being on the 21^{st floor the suite has been compared to the top of a cruise ship which is the best of all worlds in a beach vacation.Tiny Nevis is a serious beach vacation playground for the rich and famous set. The favorite hotel haunt is the Four Seasons and its Sunshine’s Beach Bar & Grill where Kelly Ripa cannot get enough of its signature drink “Killer Bees” while enjoying her beach vacation. Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn, Beyonce and Jay-Z have frequented the Four Seasons on their respective beach vacations.}

Matthew McConaughey often stays at a private home on the island when needing his beach vacation but he starts his horseback rides from the Hermitage Plantation Inn where John Grisham hangs out. Michelle Pfeiffer and her family enjoy the Under the Sea education center for sea life while relaxing with their beach vacation.

Whenever your beach vacation takes you to Nevis, the must-eat place is Miss June’s. Every feast is made from scratch and served up in Miss June’s own home. This is a favorite of Oprah, Charlie Gibson and the band Aerosmith when vacationing at the beach.

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Beach vacation in Jamaica and you’re apt to share the island with many celebs including the once-upon-a-time couple Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey. Retail therapy for Jessica’s beach vacation included a local bazaar of all things Jamaican where Jessica plunked down $800.

One of the most popular stays on the island for your beach vacation is the Royal Plantation and the resort’s C-Bar where there is no shortage of champagne and caviar. Fran Drescher and playwright Noel Coward are frequent beach vacationer visitors where Coward’s 100-year old Steinway piano still graces the drawing room.

Round Hill resort has attracted many of the classic Hollywood stars on their beach vacations including Grace Kelly, Errol Flynn and Clark Gable. And now, the newer version has descended including Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, Bruce Willis and Harrison Ford looking to share their beach vacations.

The Goldeneye resort in neighboring Oracabessa, where Naomi Campbell owns a villa, has housed Scarlett Johansson and Josh Hartnett on their beach vacations while Half Moon resort caters to the ultra private in beach vacations. David Bowie, Spike Lee, Paul Simon and Harry Connick, Jr. take advantage of the resort’s 400 acres in maintaining their privacy. John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy stayed at Half Moon, relaxing on their beach vacation, just after announcing his bid for the presidency. While there, Jackie wrote her will, on hotel stationery, designating Bobby Kennedy as Caroline’s guardian.

Singer Kelly Rowland fell in love with the Jamaica Inn in Ocho Rios while beach vacationing. Her favorite beach vacation meal was breakfast with sumptuous guava jelly on toast which she fed to the fish, too. But the best was the spa treatments, made with fresh coconuts, she received which made her beach vacation memorable.

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Visit the beaches of tiny St. Martin for your next vacation. Even though St. Martin is the smallest of the Caribbean island chain, it offers 37 magnificent beaches for the start of your vacation. The Dutch side of the island offers larger resorts while the French half of the island is much more secluded and intimate. So St. Martin allows you many choices when planning your beach vacation. No matter which side of the island you choose, the dance clubs, busy, noisy casinos, an abundance of water sports or even topless sunbathing awaits the avid beach vacationer.

You are in for a treat if you choose the Le Petit Hotel on Grand Case Bay for your beach vacation stay. It’s located next to the fabulous restaurant row which will allow everyone an opportunity to sample the local Caribbean food with the added Dutch and French influences. Le Petit Hotel decided on classic modern architecture rather than the usual Caribbean décor but they did not forget the proximity of the beaches. Pick from 10 different suites which are only a few paces from the beach.

Stay at the Hotel L’Esplanade for picture perfect views from the Juliet-style balcony overlooking the bay. This bougainvillea covered hotel is just a few minutes walk from the Petit Plage beach. The lofts on the top floor are spacious and well worth the additional cost just for the views and sunsets alone on your vacation.

It’s your beach vacation so pull up a hammock or a comfortable chaise under a palm frond covered umbrella, sip a local Caribbean rum cocktail complete with requisite umbrella and let the stress and worry of your daily grind melt away and flow out to sea with the tide as a glorious sunset replaces the warming rays of the last bit of sunshine.

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Try Oahu for a quick beach vacation getaway the next time you need a little stress relief. Known for Waikiki, the coolest of all Hawaii beaches, Oahu has over 100 miles of beaches for you to explore on your next vacation. If seclusion and surfing are your mainstays, you might want to try the North Shore of Oahu for your beach vacation.

Oahu also prides itself on becoming a cultural as well as a culinary hot spot. The diversity of the population lends itself to many cultural and ethnic combinations. This is discovered in the artwork as well as the food choices available on this tropical island.

Just because you’ve chosen a beach vacation does not mean you must sacrifice the luxury of an opulent hotel like the Halekulani. They have one of the most luxurious spas in the world where you can be pampered like a king.

But if you’re on a budget then the Waikiki Parc Hotel, across the street from the Halekulani, is a good choice. Since The Parc Hotel is not located directly on the water, the price of a room can be a few hundred dollars cheaper. The money you save can be used at the Nobu outpost in the lobby of the Parc or an ocean view room upgrade.

Another good value for your beach vacation dollar would be a stay at the Aqua Waikiki Wave which is a couple blocks from the beach. In 2006, the hotel undertook a total renovation and now you can get free WiFi and even flat screen TVs. If you’re bothered by street noise, reserve a room on an upper floor.

Oahu may seem like a long flight away for a weekend beach vacation but it’s only a short 5.5 hours from Seattle, Los Angeles or San Francisco.

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Beach vacations can start on some of the world’s less traveled beaches and end up being some of the best beach vacations you ever experienced. If you’re looking for adventure, then look no further than Greece and Shipwreck Beach for your next vacation.

The original name was Navagio which means “shipwreck” in English. This destination beach vacation is only accessible by boat and is one of the most picturesque and photographed beaches in Greece. Zakynthos island has a famous beach the wreckage of a vessel was marooned in 1983 and is still half-submerged in the sand.

Vacation cruise tours will actually ferry beach vacationers to this as well as the Blue Caves at Skinari which are huge grottos which are large enough for boats and offers terrific snorkeling and swimming to its visiting beach vacationers.

Jetting from Greece southeast across the Indian Ocean to Australia’s idyllic Whitsunday Island we find Whitehaven Beach, made up of 99.8 percent pure silica sand. This creates a silky, talcum-powder softness of the 4 mile stretch of vacation beach. Because of visitation limits set by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, this beach is nearly deserted most of the time. To even access this vacation area, you must register with a tour operator. Because of these strict limitations, Whitehaven Beach remains identical to its calendar pictures of isolation and purity in remembrance of your beach vacation.

For less traveled beaches try the tiny island of Bonaire where Scientology devotees Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes frequent for their vacation. The waters surrounding this tiny isle are completely protected as a marine park. This is why Bonaire is hailed as exceptional for a diving vacation. There are not many choices available for hotels but guests prefer the small Golden Reef Inn.

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Beach vacations for celebrities begin and end in the Caribbean. According to the paparazzi shots, it seems there are more Hollywood celebrities in the Caribbean, enjoying a quiet beach vacation, at any given time, than there are elsewhere.

Anguilla is a favorite beach vacation hangout for Courteney Cox and David Arquette who likes top-notch villas Exclusivity and Altamer for their beach vacation. They used to hook up with Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston.

Cap Juluca vacation resort is also famous for its guest book of celebrities for beach vacations such as Janet Jackson, Eddie Murphy and Denzel Washington. Kevin Bacon has been known to jam with fellow rockers at the beach bar, Dune Preserve.

A popular seven bedroom beach vacation mansion called Cerulean Villa has been popularized by Uma Thurman and Liam Neeson while questionable character, Seymour Butz, was so taken with the place that he wanted to produce a porn movie while on his beach vacation.

Even Howard Stern frequents the island when he attempts a little downtime for a beach vacation. Without question, the best restaurants visited by every celebrity are Blanchard’s Straw Hat or Scilly Cay where the house specialty is the local lobster.

The place to see the stars come out is the Shirley Heights Lookout Bar on Antiqua for the weekly barbeque party. Giorgio Armani and Eric Clapton both own homes there and Clapton has even built a rehab center on the beach so celebrities can combine their beach vacation with rehab.

Oprah Winfrey helped John Travolta celebrate his 51^{st birthday aboard his yacht last year. Oprah spends time between the Carlisle Bay Hotel and the Jumby Bay when she’s in town for a beach vacation. Beach vacation photo shoots by Victoria’s Secret have been done on the pink sands of Barbuda.}

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Beach vacations will always find celebrities in the Caribbean. Barbados features an especially luxurious resort, Sandy Lane, for romantic couples and their beach vacations. Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber along with Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen, when bliss reigned, stayed there.

While on his beach vacation, Tiger Woods planned his wedding there in 2004 to Elin Nordegren. Celebrities’ privacy is closely guarded in Barbados making this an extremely desirable beach vacation. Notably speaking, while the paparazzi was dogging Woods’ wedding, only two pictures were ever published since they could not get close enough.

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) is a hot spot for beach vacationing celebrities especially Little Thatch Island, home to Captain Jack Sparrow a.k.a. Johnny Depp. The famous beach vacation destination Jolly Roger Inn has housed the likes of Keith Richards and Kate Moss with her young daughter, Lila, in tow for a special beach vacation. The Frenchman’s Lookout is a popular, luxury villa that is furnished with a full-time staff of four. Favorites beaches for vacationers include Smuggler’s Cove, Apple Bay and Josiah’s Bay.

Sometimes country superstar Kenny Chesney gives impromptu concerts at Ivan’s Stress Free Bar when he’s beach vacationing on Jost Van Dyke’s White Bay even though he prefers to stay on St. John. Eric Clapton likes to sail his yacht, Blue Guitar, from BVI to Antiqua while beach vacationing and, even, Beatle Paul McCartney has recorded songs while on his yacht sailing around BVI. When he needs time on the beach, it’s off to Peter Island and the Hawk’s Nest villa.

Ultra famous beach vacationer, Princess Diana, was a regular guest of Virgin Air’s, Richard Branson, Necker Island where extreme luxury can set you back about $30,000 per night for a beach vacation. Richard Branson also owns Virgin Records.

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Beach vacation hangouts for celebrities range far and wide among the Caribbean islands including the Bahamas especially because of its proximity to the United States.

Al Roker of Today show weather fame, loves the new Four Seasons resort on Great Exuma for his beach vacations since his family claims roots on the island.

Billy Crystal, Steve Martin, Oprah and Bill Gates pine for the mega-exclusive Musha Cay to enjoy their beach vacations. Tim McGraw and his wife Faith Hill loved the islands so much on one of their beach vacations that they bought an entire neighboring island for their very own. Johnny Depp also owns his own private island nearby. But he still frequents Club Peace & Plenty in George Town when he visits the beaches on vacation. This bar dates back to the 18th century at the height of the slave trade and shows off its historic slave kitchen to beach vacationers. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have even enjoyed a beach vacation breakfast together on the porch.

John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston own a beach vacation condo on Grand Bahama Island. They revel in their beach vacation time and take time out to speak with folks in the dining room at the Old Bahama Bay Resort & Yacht Harbour. Sometimes Travolta scares the other beach vacationers by taking an interest in their dining pleasures by asking about their selected menu items.

On Paradise Island, the place to be seen is at the beach vacation Uber resort Atlantis where Paris Hilton can be spotted dancing and partying at the Dragons nightclub. And the poshest place to stay on your beach vacation is the Bridge Suite which is decked out with a 22 karat gold chandelier. All that and more for a mere $25,000 per night.

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The best beach vacations of the Dominican Republic cover 800 miles of coastline so there is a beach for every taste. The beaches of the Dominican Republic are heavily advertised thus heavily visited but there are still many beaches for every vacation budget and every vacation whim.

On the southeast tip of the island lies Punta Cana, part of the “Coconut Coast” which reaches for 30 spectacular miles for your long sought vacation. At Cabo Engano, the Caribbean waters merge with the Atlantic waters. Just north of this vacation spot, Playa El Cortecito and Playa Arena Gorda show off their perfect white sand beaches and tranquil waters which are sheltered by a coral reef thus creating very still waters and every water sport you can think of for your vacation. As an added bonus, two lagoons, made by man, feature rays, dolphins and, sometimes, sharks which are used to swimming with humans.

The best beaches for snorkeling include Bahia de las Aguilas, Barahona, Boca Chica and Dominicus. If the sunsets turn you on, then it’s on to Punta Rucia or Playa Las Galeras. The best beach vacation parties can be enjoyed at Playa Grande, Cabarete any weekend of the year.

The best beach for topless sunbathing vacation is Caliente Caribe at Cabrera. This beach also tolerates total nude sunbathing. Some of the other beaches will allow topless sunbathing but, generally, total nudity is not tolerated in the Dominican Republic.

Throughout the Dominican Republic, coral reefs are plentiful enough to protect most of the island’s beaches, but some type of footware may still be recommended on most of the beaches.

Whatever you crave from your best beach vacation, the electric- blue waters, the tropical ocean breezes and the magnificent sunsets will fix any problem that life may have thrown you.

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Beach vacations can start on some of the world’s less traveled beaches and end up being some of the best beach vacations you ever experienced. If you’re looking for adventure, then look no further than Greece and Shipwreck Beach for your next vacation.

The original name was Navagio which means “shipwreck” in English. This destination beach vacation is only accessible by boat and is one of the most picturesque and photographed beaches in Greece. Zakynthos island has a famous beach the wreckage of a vessel was marooned in 1983 and is still half-submerged in the sand.

Vacation cruise tours will actually ferry beach vacationers to this as well as the Blue Caves at Skinari which are huge grottos which are large enough for boats and offers terrific snorkeling and swimming to its visiting beach vacationers.

Jetting from Greece southeast across the Indian Ocean to Australia’s idyllic Whitsunday Island we find Whitehaven Beach, made up of 99.8 percent pure silica sand. This creates a silky, talcum-powder softness of the 4 mile stretch of vacation beach. Because of visitation limits set by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, this beach is nearly deserted most of the time. To even access this vacation area, you must register with a tour operator. Because of these strict limitations, Whitehaven Beach remains identical to its calendar pictures of isolation and purity in remembrance of your beach vacation.

For less traveled beaches try the tiny island of Bonaire where Scientology devotees Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes frequent for their vacation. The waters surrounding this tiny isle are completely protected as a marine park. This is why Bonaire is hailed as exceptional for a diving vacation. There are not many choices available for hotels but guests prefer the small Golden Reef Inn.

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