AFAR Magazine named us one of their 24 best places to travel in 2026, calling us the Caribbean island that is nothing like its neighbors.

Condé Nast Traveler just featured our airport — the world’s shortest commercial runway at just 400 meters — in their global roundup published last month.

Discovery Channel’s Shark Week put our marine park on global television. None of this surprises those of us who live here. We have known it all along.

Saba is a place to treasure… an adventure you must experience.

There are no beaches — or rather, there is one. Wells Bay occasionally reveals a stretch of volcanic sand that appears and disappears with the tides and the seasons. It arrives like a gift and asks nothing in return. That is Saba in miniature.

There are no mega-resorts. No cruise ships filling the harbor. What there is, pressed into five remarkable square miles and shared by just 2,000 people, is a kind of beauty that asks something of you. You have to want it. You have to seek it. And when you discover it, it gives back in ways that are hard to explain but impossible to forget.

The airplane landing alone announces that you have arrived somewhere extraordinary. A 12-minute flight from Sint Maarten ends with a white-knuckle, breath-holding descent onto a cliffside strip above open sea. Pilots here are Top Guns — trained specialists who make the impossible look routine. When the wheels touch down, you feel it: this is not an ordinary place.

From there, Saba reveals itself slowly. One road connects it all — winding, spectacular, and entirely intentional. The electricity runs underground, invisible. Nothing clutters the view.

Pristine villages of gingerbread architecture cling to volcanic slopes.

Mount Scenery rises 2,910 feet into the clouds, its trails winding through jungle thick with birdsong.

Underwater, a marine park where spotted eagle rays, green and hawksbill turtles, and reef sharks move through coral untouched by mass tourism.

This year, the new Scenery Hotel opens at the foot of the mountain in Windwardside, joining other prestigious hotels such as Julianna’s and Tropics Café. One client told me they had the best ribeye steak they ever had at Tropics! What a tribute.

People who come here often say the same thing: it is the little things that stay with them. A neighbor who learns your name by the second day. A sunset from a hilltop that stops conversation entirely. The quiet. The safety. The feeling that life here is lived at the right pace.

We know this because we chose it ourselves. Fourteen years ago, we left New York City and made Saba our home. We have never looked back. What began as a leap of faith became the best decision of our lives — and helping others make that same discovery is work we love.

Saba is both compact and vast. It fits in your pocket and fills your whole life.

If you are dreaming of something different — a Caribbean life with real beauty, real community, and real peace — come to Saba, and we are happy to help feel at home… and even buy one.

Albert & Michael — Saba Island Properties. Expats who found paradise and never left.

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Albert & Michael – Saba Island Properties

Creating a Caribbean Lifestyle for a Week or… a Lifetime

Saba +1 (599) 416 – 2777

Emails:  Albert@sabaislandproperties.com  or  Michael@sabaislandproperties.com

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Michael’s writing is published at Arianna Huffington’s – Thrive Global, The Huffington Post,
Medium, Maria Shriver’s Website, LinkedIn, Michael Port, The Fordyce Letter, Mélange Magazine and others.
Along with this international monthly Blog Michael publishes Daily on his coaching website – Commit2Change.

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