Antigua and Barbuda Travel Information

Come be charmed by a tropical playground where the sun is always shining, the people are always welcoming, the recreation is whatever you want it to be – and where there’s a beach with your name on it!

Antigua is famous, and rightly so, for its 365 lovely beaches – one for each day of the year. There are beaches for family fun, for water sports excitement, for glorious reef diving, for clothing-optional sunbathing, for making you believe that you’re the only beachgoer on the island. Which one will suit your taste?

But there’s so much more here beyond the beautiful beach.

Graceful and evocative, the historic district of English Harbour in St. John’s is home to Nelson’s Dockyard National Park. A one-time base for the British Navy in the great age of sailing ships, the dockyard has been completely restored, and it is now the only existing Georgian naval dockyard in the world. Nelson’s Dockyard comes alive in spring during annual Sailing Week, an international regatta that lures more than 1,500 sailors who make a roundtrip to Dickenson Bay and back. Smaller regattas are held throughout the year, including the Classic Yacht Regatta for traditional wooden craft.

For shoppers, St. John’s is the destination. There’s a wide variety of duty-free shopping for international visitors at Heritage Quay, next to the cruise ship piers. Pick up everything from jewelry and liquor, to tobacco and linens, to exquisite handmade jewelry.

For partygoers, it’s Shirley Heights. Every Sunday night, tourists and locals gather to celebrate week’s end with a huge party at this historic British fort on a bluff above English Harbour. To the lively strains of steel band and reggae music, barbecue and

rum punch are served under the backdrop of a spectacular and romantic sunset.