Antigua

3* Hawksbill

The Hawksbill Beach Resort is blessed with an unusually beautiful shoreline location. Facing out toward the picturesque rocky islet that gives the resort its name is a delicately scalloped line of no less than four soft white sand beaches, one of which is clothing optional. Clustered around the beaches and extending back into the resort's thirty-seven acres of landscaped tropical gardens and grounds are a wide variety of inviting accommodations, from quiet beachfront cottages and club rooms to balconied suites looking out over the palms to the sea.

Those desiring a full panoramic view of the sea and shore can stay in the colonial-style Great House, which lies on a modest peninsula between two of the resort's crescent strands.

Add to this a fine Continental-style restaurant, a full range of activities, regular nightly entertainment, and an eye-catching colonial sugar mill housing an on-site boutique and it is easy to understand Hawksbill's popularity. Its informal atmosphere and its reasonable prices make this lively resort a favourite destination among Europeans and younger couples and the perfect choice for those seeking a memorable spot for an exciting, romantic escape.

Hawksbill offers a choice of five different guest accommodations, all decorated in the cool colours and clean lines of West Indian style. The Superior Garden view rooms located in the hotel’s main building and set back from the beach among the resort’s landscaped grounds, are elegant modern rooms with private patios or balconies overlooking the sea. Superior Cottages, also set among the palms, provide additional privacy. Beachfront accommodations include deluxe club cottages on the waters edge of beach #1 and 2 and deluxe club cottages with AC on the headland between beaches 2 and 3. With the addition of these 12 new club rooms with AC Hawksbill Beach Resort gives the travellers that many more reasons to visit this lovely resort, set along one of the most beautiful stretches of shoreline in the Caribbean. All 111 units at the 37-acre property on the west coast of Antigua are just a few paces from the beach. The new rooms are cooled by the constant trade winds aided by a ceiling fan or the air condition unit. Each have a king bed, a refrigerator, telephone, tea/coffee-making appliances.

Beautifully landscaped with a collection of trees, shrubs and flowering plants, the ground about Hawksbill are literally a succession of tropical gardens, joined by a series of landscaped walkways. Guests can stroll amid fences and archways laced in bright orange or deep purple bougainvillea. Flaming red flamboyant trees counterpoint the lush trees of the palms.

Hawksbill’s Great House, which straddles the intervening spit of sand, offers airy suites and broad patios from which to take a full view of the surrounding waters and magnificent and unparalleled sunsets.