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Unless you’re among the visitors with a private jet, arrival to Anguilla is typically by a small Caribbean airline that flies noisy charter [View in browser]( [Bloomberg]( Unless you’re among the visitors with a private jet, arrival to Anguilla is typically by a small Caribbean airline that flies noisy charter planes or by a choppy 45-minute ferry ride from nearby St. Maarten. “Anguilla has always had an issue with access,” says Kenroy Herbert, chairman of the Anguilla Tourist Board. “But we don’t want to open the floodgates, so to speak.” Aurora Anguilla Resort and Golf Club. Photographer: Envisionworks Inc. That’s a pretty unconventional thing for a tourism executive to say, particularly one in service of a 14,000-person island the size of Manhattan that claims virtually no industry beyond, well, tourism. But Herbert has made that stance—which prioritizes a low-volume tourism strategy focusing on high-spending visitors—a selling point, especially during the pandemic. In August 2020, Anguilla reopened its borders with a unique “bubble” concept designed to insulate travelers and locals from transmission risk by requiring visitors to test aggressively before and after arrival in addition to remaining quarantined in villas for at least 10 days before being allowed to explore. The bubble worked. From April to December 2020, Anguilla didn’t record a single case of Covid-19, according to the World Health Organization. For a certain traveler—both time- and cash-rich, yet also Covid-cautious—that made it irresistible. “Other Caribbean islands were calling to get details as to how we made it all work,” Herbert says. If you’re dreaming of going already, [here are the best places to stay, eat, and soak up the sun in Anguilla.]( In Other Travel News [Is New York’s Romance With Social Clubs Merely a Pandemic Love Affair?]( When the Core club reopens this fall, it will try to attract a clientele that wants to travel—not just stay home and hang out. 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Downton Abbey Fans, This One’s For You If you enjoy escaping into low-stakes, long-simmering historical dramas, HBO’s original series The Gilded Age, which begins airing on Monday, Jan. 24, might be your new favorite show. This time, Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes sets his plot in New York City in the late 1800s, an era marked by industrialization, newfound affluence, and immigration—perfect conditions for a class-conscious drama about affluent, anxious White people. Louisa Jacobson (left) and Denée Benton in The Gilded Age. Photographer: ALISON COHEN ROSA The Gilded Age contends with race in uniquely American ways. We enter the series alongside young Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson), who discovers she’s penniless and must move from Pennsylvania to live with her wealthy aunts, Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski) and Ada Brook (Cynthia Nixon). Marian’s purse and ticket are stolen on the train platform, so Peggy Scott (Denée Benton), a middle-class Black woman, pays her fare. As they ride to New York together in a segregated car, an unlikely friendship blooms that leads to Peggy working as Agnes’s secretary. Does a burgeoning relationship between a White damsel in distress and her savvy Black sidekick make you bristle? Well ... [Read on to see what the show gets right that Downton Abbey didn’t.Â]( In Other Entertainment News [Miranda Talks About Bruno, And the 'Encanto' Phenomenon]( [In ‘Watcher,’ a Stalker Thriller With a Female Gaze]( [After André Leon Talley, Reflecting on Fashion’s Racial Struggle]( [Tom Cruise’s Next ‘Mission: Impossible’ Film Delayed Over Covid]( [Whitehead, Jeffers Among Book Critics Circle Nominees]( [Paris Hilton Is Back and Moving the Party to the Metaverse]( Slow Ride The 2022 Bentley Flying Spur Hybrid enters the market in the second quarter as Bentley’s second plug-in hybrid, after the Bentayga Hybrid. It’s the company’s next step toward its [goal]( to sell only electric vehicles by 2030. 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