Six Caribbean Travel Essentials

Passport: check. Portable phone charger: check. Eye mask and hand sanitizer: check and check. Savvy travelers wouldn’t dream of jetting off without these essentials in their carry-on, wherever they’re headed.

But I’ve found that when I’m flying south, there are some Caribbean- specific items I simply must have. So I polled some of my fellow Caribbean-covering colleagues to discover their own essentials for island trips. And I shared six of them in my latest Caribbean Dispatch column for Recommend magazine.