Year so far not good Caribbean resort, but that did not stop the opening of hotels in the region. Here is a Travel Agent’s vote for your clients to the Islands, some are open, someone else on the horizon, reflagged or rebuilt from scratch.

Sandals Great Exuma
Unique sandals Emerald Bay, Great Exuma, is a 18-hole Greg Norman-designed golf

Sandal Emerald Bay, Great Exuma
www.sandals.com
Great Exuma, Bahamas
Opening January 22, 2010.

Who should pitch to: As with all Sandals Resorts, Sandals Emerald Bay is intended for two people falling in love-if they were celebrating their wedding with the signature “Weddingmoon”; enjoying their honeymoon; renew their promise, or just go for a romantic vacation.

Best Rooms: All 190 suites are impressive, but go with Beachfront Villas because of space they offer. But if not the character in your priorities, each room will do. Each room overlooks the ocean beach and all served by butlers trained by the Sandals Resorts company through an exclusive partnership with the Guild of Professional English Butler.

1. Travel off-season. Mid-April until mid-December is the Caribbean low season, when the first berth in the whole region the tariffs 30 percent or more, hissing offers savings to those who do not need the threat of a snowstorm to inspire an island stopover.

The best deals, however, was found at hotels which shaved 50 percent off high season.

In Anguilla, 27-room sitting in my hotel one of the best beaches in the Caribbean and produce prices starting from $ 315. But the hotel posts summer rates starting from $ 180, through December 19 (I-anguilla.com).

That is to say, this winter – like the last one – not the norm, and usually expensive resorts have started rolling out the transaction, a sure sign that advance bookings for the peak season are lagging.

Elite Island Resorts, which operates the hotel at the price points varying in Antigua, Tortola, St. Lucia and Palm Island in the Grenadines, offering on-the-board 20 percent discount to stay in January, 10 percent in February, and 30 percent in March. Seven night minimum required, and rooms must be booked by February 1 (eliteislandresorts.com/2010).

2. Transactions in the sky. Amanda Hoffman of Expedia recommends looking for a plane ticket on Tuesday night. “Most airlines post their agreement on Tuesday morning and the evening on other airlines have the opportunity to match them,” he said.