If you have just one week to take your next amazing island trip, try an easy getaway to one of these 25 Caribbean destinations. We've highlighted our recommendations for what to see and do, and where to stay and eat. Zoom in on the map below to see detailed close-ups of each spot. Enjoy!
Ambergris Caye, Belize 
Matachica is one of the island's northernmost hotels. Lie in front of a red casita with a hammock strung across its porch, matachica.com. In Ambergris Caye's only town, dance to punta at Jaguar's disco or see Wednesday's "World Famous Chicken Drop." On the sandy streets of San Pedro, find Elvi's Kitchen for Maya-style fish grilled in banana leaves. Snorkel with parrotfish, damselfish and rays at Hol Chan, a marine reserve that means "little channel" in Mayan. travelbelize.org
Anguilla
The CuisinArt Resort & Spa is home to the Caribbean's only hydroponic farm for fresh meals like savory tomato bread pudding. cuisinartresort.com; anguilla-vacation.com
Antigua
Relax on the chaise beside the plunge pool of your hillside cottage at Hermitage Bay. The decor and menu here are simply elegant, hermitagebay.com. Hire a driver and spend a day exploring. Fig Tree Drive cuts up from the south coast through the island's jungly interior. Fig Tree Drive ends at Elaine's Culture Shop, home of homemade guava jam and passion-fruit juice. antigua-barbuda.org
Aruba
At Bucuti Beach Resort, enjoy stunning Eagle Beach -- a broad belt of silky sand that tapers ever so gently into the sea. The resort is in the low-rise resort quarter, bucuti.com. The Pirate's Nest restaurant features a replica of a 16th- century Dutch galleon -- plus snapper, tuna, grouper and mahimahi. Try that after a dive with great underwater visibility to famous wrecks like the 400-foot German freighter, the Antilla. aruba.com
Bahamas 
Swim in an inland blue hole or over coral reefs on Andros Island, where more than 286,000 acres are protected as part of the Central Andros National Parks. In Andros Town, travel back in time to clapboard fishing villages and Androsian pine forests. Past the overgrown plantation ruins and little village of Rolletown, discover Tropic of Cancer Beach. Wade into the shin-high water, bahamas.com. The Small Hope Bay Lodge has family-owned beachfront cottages and a dive boat to take you to Jean's Dream, coral gardens off the east coast, smallhope.com. The Palm Bay Beach Club on Great Exuma is a great place to stay in between rides down the Queen's Highway by motorcycle. palmbaybeachclub.com
Barbados
From the Bougainvillea Beach Resort, the seaside restaurants and charismatic rum bars of St. Lawrence Gap are a short walk away, bougainvillearesort.com. Oistins is one of the island's quaint fishing villages. On a weekend night, find a beachside fish fry where you can get yours fried, grilled or in cakes. barbados.org
Bonaire
The elegant residents of the Flamingo Sanctuary roost on sun-scorched salt pans on the island's southern half. In the Washington-Slagbaai National Park, the island gathers into dry hills covered by candle cacti forests overlooking the limestone-terraced beaches, infobonaire.com. Buddy Dive Resort opened two diving and snorkeling trails on their house reef with underwater signs indentifying species of coral. buddydive.com
British Virgin Islands
From the Moorings Marina, you can charter your own yacht and spend the night on a vessel such as the Southern Accent, moorings.com. A boat and crew from Sail Caribbean can take you diving off this rocky island called The Caves. Flaming tongue cowries eat away on purple Gorgonian fans as stingrays hunt in the sand, sailcaribbeandivers.com. Marina Cay is owned by Pusser's, the company whose rum replicates the brew made for Great Britain's Royal Navy for 300 years. Try a Painkiller at the open-air bar. On White Bay, hand over a wet dollar at the Soggy Dollar bar, dance under a tin roof to live music at Foxy's, and finish with a nightcap at Ivan's, the funky bar at the bay campground. bvitourism.com
Cancun
The JW Marriott Cancun Resort & Spa offers total sand-and-sea immersion. Try scuba in the dedicated dive pool or a Mexican Sand Buffer at the spa. marriott.com; cancun.info
Canouan
Among the offerings at Raffles Resort Canouan Island's Amrita Spa are glass-floored spa treatment rooms over the bay. Raffles' La Varenne gourmet restaurant, perched atop the peninsula, features lobster a la meuniere and more indulgences, rafflescanouan.com. Set the main sail of a yacht out of Carenage Bay and head to the neighboring Tobago Cays. svgtourism.com
Cozumel
The Punta Celarain Lighthouse has panoramic views reserved only for you and the swallows. Head to San Miguel's zocalo (town center) for wahoo tacos, ice-cold Dos Equis and live mariachi. A strong current near the famed Palancar reef generates some high-octane drift-diving, islacozumel.com.mx. The InterContinental Presidente Resort Spa is a beautiful place in a stunning location near the Tunich dive site. ichotelsgroup.com
Curaçao
The Hotel Kura Hulanda Spa & Casino in Willemstad includes shops and a unique museum dedicated to the island's slave-trading history, kurahulanda.com. Located at the far end of the Avila Hotel's pier, Blue's is where live music mingles with gently lapping waves, avilahotel.com. The funky Otrabanda district dates to the early 1700s, when the island was controlled by the Dutch West India Company. Now it's a bastion of galleries and eateries. The Landhuis Brievengat is an old, whitewashed plantation house converted into a bar and music venue for home-grown tumba tunes. curacao-tourism.com
Dominica
Jungle Bay Resort & Spa is an eco-friendly hotel offering tai chi in studios overlooking the Atlantic and cliff-side spa suites. junglebaydominica.com; tropicalescapes.biz; dominica.dm
Grand Cayman
Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman is quintessential Caribbean: powdery sand and blue water that's just the right temperature. At the Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman, enjoy the Silver Rain spa and a Caviar Firming Facial. The absolute best dish in the Caribbean may be the tuna foie gras at Blue, chef Eric Ripert's dining room at the Ritz-Carlton. ritzcarlton.com; caymanislands.ky
Guanaja
Honduras' Guanaja was once a sanctuary for English and French pirates. These days, untouched coral reefs and warm waters are the treasures that lure the rare visitor. The main town, Bonacca, on an offshore cay, is called the "Little Venice of the Caribbean." See locals paddling canoes down canals and ducking under walkways, letsgohonduras.com. Bo Bush's Island House is a wood-plank lodge run by Bo, who claims pirate ancestry. bosislandhouse.com
Jamaica
Jake's is a patchwork of whimsical cottages with rooftop patios, found-object headboards, outdoor bathtubs and terraces you can fish off of. jakeshotel.com; visitjamaica.com
Les Saintes
Some inhabitants of Les Saintes, a cluster of islands south of Guadeloupe, still wear traditional saucer-like salako hats and fish in sailboats known as santoises, lesilesdeguadeloupe.com. The Hotel Auberge les Petits Saints is an eclectic inn packed with antiques. Chill with a ti-punch and crabes farcis (stuffed land crabs). petitssaints.com
Martinique
The Cyparis Express has a short tour of St. Pierre, the charred remnants of the former "Paris of the West Indies," decimated by the 1902 volcanic eruption. Also wander through the narrow alleys and fruit markets of the island's cultural capital, Fort-de-France, martinique.org. The Sofitel Bakoua Martinique has sundown mixers and French-Creole appetizers served poolside amid unique zouk rhythms. sofitel.com
Puerto Rico
The 12-room Chateau Cervantes occupies one of more than 400 restored 16th- and 17th-century buildings in Old San Juan, cervantespr.com. The imposing El Morro fortress is a six-story, 18-foot-thick Spanish harbor fortification that dominates this tip of the island. Nearby, the San Juan Cathedral is one of the oldest churches in the Western Hemisphere. gotopuertorico.com
Saba
On this towering, extinct volcano, the 1,500 locals refer to their home as the "Unspoiled Queen." It features gloriously isolated, vine-tangled rainforest. The view from Mount Scenery's summit comes after a hike up 1,064 mossy steps beneath tree ferns and cascading heliconia, sabatourism.com. Stay in one of the family-run Ecolodge Rendez- Vous cottages, where lights and showers are solar-powered. ecolodge-saba.com
St. John
See the Virgin Islands National Park, where Laurance S. Rockefeller donated 170 acres in 1956, usvitourism.vi. Caneel Bay, a Rosewood Resort, features the Self Centre, where you can hear gentle waves and bird song from your yoga mat. At the Caneel Bay resort's restaurant, Equator, dig into lobster amid the setting of a 1700s sugar mill. caneelbay.com
St. Kitts
The Rawlins Plantation Inn is a reclaimed 17th-century sugar plantation on the slopes of Mount Liamuiga. At the Rawlins Plantation Inn's restaurant, the kitchen uses freshly picked avocados, limes, papayas and the day's catch in a West Indian-inspired dinner. rawlinsplantation.com; stkittstourism.kn
St. Lucia
The BodyHoliday at LeSport greets guests with "BodyGuards," who start a rejuvenation plan based on the client's goals. Try a lime-and-ginger scrub. thebodyholiday.com; stlucia.org
Turks & Caicos
Salt Cay, speckled with overgrown ruins of salt-baron manors and dimpled with salt ponds, feels like a remote outpost, except when the humpback whales migrate past. Serious divers should head south to the unsalvaged wreck of the Endymion, a Bristish man-of-war that sank in 1790. turksandcaicostourism.com
Turneffe Atoll, Belize
At the Turneffe Island Lodge on this private island off Belize, no cell phones or Internet service let you enjoy the 70 nearby diving sites or salt-flats fishing. turneffelodge.com
