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These 10 hotels in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands give U.S. citizens a Caribbean vacation without the passport requirement.
You can stay at the new Four Seasons Resort and Residences Puerto Rico, check into the legendary Buccaneer in St. Croix, or spend a week at Bolongo Bay Beach Resort in St. Thomas — all without a passport if you’re a U.S. citizen. These are 10 of our favorite hotels for doing exactly that.
The list has gotten more interesting recently. Four Seasons Resort and Residences Puerto Rico opened Nov. 20 after a $40 million reimagining, bringing 139 rooms to the 483-acre Bahía Beach community and giving the island a major new luxury resort heading into the winter season.
The rooms themselves are unusually large: even an Oceanfront Room measures 741 square feet, with a furnished terrace facing the Atlantic. At the other end of the spectrum, The Buccaneer spreads across 340 acres in St. Croix, while Bolongo Bay Beach Resort keeps things intimate with just 65 rooms and one of the U.S. Virgin Islands’ best-known small all-inclusive experiences.
And the range is the real story. There are grand San Juan hotels like the Condado Vanderbilt Hotel, beach resorts like Fairmont El San Juan Hotel, an adults-only hideaway in St. John, and two very different Ritz-Carlton experiences in Puerto Rico and St. Thomas.
Here are 10 great Caribbean hotels U.S. citizens can visit without a passport.
Four Seasons Resort and Residences Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
One of the biggest reasons to revisit Puerto Rico is also one of the Caribbean’s most important recent hotel openings.
The island’s top luxury resort debuted in November 2025 in the Bahía Beach community on Puerto Rico’s northeastern side, bringing the Four Seasons flag to a 483-acre nature reserve between Río Grande and Luquillo. More than 65 percent of the property is sanctuary land, with forests, freshwater lakes, wetlands, coral reef habitat and two miles of beach.
The resort has the ingredients for a full vacation without leaving Bahía Beach: an 18-hole Robert Trent Jones Jr.-designed golf course, a spa, kayaking and nature experiences, along with rooms, suites, villas and residences. It’s also close enough to El Yunque to build a rainforest day into the trip.
If you want the newest luxury resort experience on this list, start here.
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