Many people fear sleeping on a boat. They imagine rocking, creaking, and the sound of waves slapping the hull. The Boroka eliminates this with three engineering tricks:

I slept ten hours straight. I woke up to the sun rising over a deserted island. That is the Caribbean dream—not a lobby full of hungover tourists.

Most Caribbean resorts share a beach with three other hotels. Boroka has four hundred meters of private white sand that you won’t see another soul on unless you invite them. The water is bath-warm, the slope is gentle, and a floating dock sits in the bay with chilled rosé in a submerged cooler.

What does “better” actually mean? The Boroka’s charter model rejects three common Caribbean vacation frustrations: