Vanessa's Visitors Guidebook

Vanessa
Vanessa's Visitors Guidebook

Food scene

Beautiful restaurant just steps away from Villa FantaSea.
28 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Ana's on the Beach
28 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Beautiful restaurant just steps away from Villa FantaSea.
Beautiful restaurant just steps away from Villa FantaSea
9 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Salt Plage
9 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Beautiful restaurant just steps away from Villa FantaSea
Upscale, delicious fine dining restaurant ten minutes walk from Villa FantaSea
7 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Casa Roots - Beach - Food & Drinks
7 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Upscale, delicious fine dining restaurant ten minutes walk from Villa FantaSea
Family friendly pub style food with some local favourites included
14 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Putters Bar and Grill
Marina Bay Road
14 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Family friendly pub style food with some local favourites included
Fine dining French favourites at its best
21 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Le Bistro
21 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Fine dining French favourites at its best
Only five minutes drive from Villa FantaSea and serving the best pizza around
Bella Vita Italian Restaurant & Bar
Only five minutes drive from Villa FantaSea and serving the best pizza around
Visit the Bay House Restaurant for great food, fantastic music and the best panoramic views of Dickenson Bay.
Trade Winds Hotel
J. Hadeed Street
Visit the Bay House Restaurant for great food, fantastic music and the best panoramic views of Dickenson Bay.
Every meal is perfect at Garden Grill!
10 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Garden Grill
10 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Every meal is perfect at Garden Grill!
Fine dining tapas overlooking the majestic expanse of blue Caribbean ocean
40 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Sheer Rocks
40 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Fine dining tapas overlooking the majestic expanse of blue Caribbean ocean
Recently renovated and opened as a gorgeous boutique hotel and restaurant, the architectural detail at Weatherills takes you back in time while the fine dining experience takes you to new heights. Personally one of my top three favorite places to visit for dinner, and just for cocktails both the bar and the drinks are exquisite.
Weatherills Sugar Windmill Tower
Recently renovated and opened as a gorgeous boutique hotel and restaurant, the architectural detail at Weatherills takes you back in time while the fine dining experience takes you to new heights. Personally one of my top three favorite places to visit for dinner, and just for cocktails both the bar and the drinks are exquisite.

Sports & Leisure

This eighteen hole golf course is a five minute drive from Villa FantaSea.
7 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Cedar Valley Golf Course
7 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
This eighteen hole golf course is a five minute drive from Villa FantaSea.

Shopping

Antigua's largest supermarket bringing all the conveniences while you're away from home.
63 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Epicurean Fine Foods & Pharmacy
Epicurean Drive
63 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Antigua's largest supermarket bringing all the conveniences while you're away from home.
Bringing delicate wine from around the world
Bacchus Divine Wines
Friars Hill Road
Bringing delicate wine from around the world
For all your alcohol and tobacco needs at the best prices in town
Spirits of the Caribbean
For all your alcohol and tobacco needs at the best prices in town
Fabulous and original ladies clothing masterfully created by one of Antigua's local designers.
Noreen Phillips Couturiere
Redcliffe Street
Fabulous and original ladies clothing masterfully created by one of Antigua's local designers.

Sight Seeing

Swim with free stingrays any day of the week
56 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Stingray City Antigua
56 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Swim with free stingrays any day of the week
Venture to the south side of Antigua and visit Nelson's Dockyard
84 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Nelson's Dockyard
Dockyard Drive
84 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Venture to the south side of Antigua and visit Nelson's Dockyard
For the best sunset BBQ party, visit Shirley Heights Lookout. Listen to the steel pan band from 4pm and dance along with the local band from 7pm to 10pm. Beware of the RUM PUNCH!!!
101 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Shirley Heights
101 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
For the best sunset BBQ party, visit Shirley Heights Lookout. Listen to the steel pan band from 4pm and dance along with the local band from 7pm to 10pm. Beware of the RUM PUNCH!!!
See how the Atlantic Ocean has carved a bridge into the jagged rock at Devil's Bridge
41 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Devil's Bridge
41 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
See how the Atlantic Ocean has carved a bridge into the jagged rock at Devil's Bridge

Sight seeing

This is FUN!
26 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Antigua Rain Forest Canopy Tour
Fig Tree Drive
26 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
This is FUN!

Consejos para la ciudad

Qué debes empacar

Comfortable shoes, swimwear, shades, sunscreen, hat, etc

To enter any establishment in Antigua you will be asked to be wearing shoes. Generally ladies are asked to wear a swim suit cover up or a t shirt and shorts. Men may be asked to wear a sleeved t shirt as opposed to a tank top. For dinner, trousers or shorts and a polo shirt are acceptable for men.
Facilidad para moverse por la casa

Hire a Taxi or Rent a car?

Renting a car in Antigua is not a must, but it can be very useful if you’d like to explore the island at your own pace. Driving here can be challenging – there are potholes, animals crossing at any given moment, quite a few roundabouts (always give way to traffic coming from the right) and no actual numbered addresses. Search Sunny Rentals Ltd to check out your holiday car rental options…
Frases útiles

Local dialect can be a tad confusing. Don't worry...

Hanging out - LIMING (WE LIMING LATER? - Are we hanging out later?) I'm fine, thank you - IRIE (ME IRIE MAN - I am good) No.... - TALL ('Not at all' + TAAALLLLL!!! - NOOOOO!!!!) Holy sh!t!!! - RASSHOLE (PERSON 1: THESE ARE SOME PICTURES FROM MY VACATION TO ANTIGUA - PERSON 2: RASSHOLE! I NEED TO GO THERE - Holy sh!t! Send me the info so I can go too)
Costumbres y cultura

Sports, Fetes and Food

The national sport of Antigua is cricket!!! Cricket is worshipped like a religion and some of the world’s best cricketers are Antiguan. Carnival is celebrated in Antigua during the end of July to early August. It used to be roughly a week of celebrations filled with colorful costumes, live music, and parades, but in more recent years has become a full two months of weekend fetes, day and night. The national dish of Antigua is fungee (pronounced foon-jee, and is very similar to polenta, sometimes made with okra but never with cheese) and pepperpot, a healthy stew either vegetarian or not.