VIDEO: Blue Waters: The Best-Kept Secret in Antigua

By: - August 2nd, 2016
Blue Waters

Some hotels are timeless.

They take you to another era, another world. They make you feel like you’ve arrived somewhere different, somewhere special.

The Blue Waters Hotel is precisely that kind of hotel.

First opened in 1960, Antigua’s Blue Waters is a throwback to the golden age of Caribbean hospitality, from its charming architecture to its absolutely splendid food. Like all the greatest hotels in the Caribbean, it feels taken right out of the pages of a novel.

This is what it’s like to check in.

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