These 14 Overwater Bars Are the Ultimate Caribbean Escape — and Some of Them Float

Sometimes even a beach bar isn’t close enough to the water. That’s where these come in. They’re not on the beach. They’re past it. They sit just beyond the shoreline or drift in sheltered bays, perched on houseboats, purpose-built platforms or overwater decks where the sea surrounds the experience from the moment you step aboard. They turn a drink into a small journey — a tender ride, a swim-up, a paddle across glass-calm shallows — and they deliver a perspective you simply can’t get from land. These are the Caribbean’s floating and overwater bars, the ones that operate with water on three