Some Luxury Included Boutique Resorts have extraordinary facilities, others are small and personal with modern amenities and authentic Caribbean experiences, but none offer the Outstanding Value of Curtain Bluff, Antigua.
This Antiguan Beachfront Hotel is 100% all - inclusive and consistently ranked among the best Inclusive Resorts and tennis centers in the world!
The 72 spacious suites and guestrooms run along the palm-shaded, white-sand Surf Beach and rise up the rocky promontory that gives the resort its name. Either right on the sand or just a few steps from it, all the accommodations have breathtaking, gaze-all-day views. Large, floor-to-ceiling windows and verandahs or ground-floor terraces look out over the beach and across the sea to a lush-green headland.
At night, the scene is a canopy of stars and the only sound is the rhythm of the waves. Inside, the accommodations are decorated in a “simply-elegant” tropical style, complete with all the modern luxuries from air-conditioning and over-sized soaking tubs to wood-paneled ceilings, refrigerators and high-speed Internet access.
In keeping with the timeless ambiance of the resort, there are no TVs in the rooms (there are two dedicated television rooms elsewhere on the property). Sleeping arrangements are designed for a couple sharing a king-sized bed. For larger groups there is a lot of flexibility.
The king-sized beds can be converted into two twins. Couches can be made into beds for young children sharing a room or suite with their parents. Rooms and suites can be linked together to create the perfect configuration for your needs (up to four bedrooms).
The most luxurious of Curtain Bluff’s accommodations, these 2 generously scaled suites occupy the third floor of a Caribbean-style villa, right on the resort’s “surf” beach. Both suites are luxuriously furnished with blue-marble bathrooms, colonial furniture, richly colored fabrics and lush palms. The bedroom and adjoining living room lead out on to a sweeping verandah
with sun-chairs and a private plunge pool, the perfect place for private sunbathing or cocktails under the stars. The suites can be linked to a Junior Suite to create a two-bedroom suite. Extended groups and families can take over the whole floor (four bedrooms).
Overlooking the Surf Beach but a few steps higher up the bluff, the 5 one- and two-bedroom Bluff Suites are more private and secluded. Their 3 level interiors are light and airy, decorated with natural-wood and sea-grass furniture and bright, natural colors. The large living room has 3 walls which provides an inviting indoor/outdoor feel that lets in the cool breeze and the sound of the waves, and incorporates a sun-drenched garden patio
with a hammock into the decor. Upstairs there is a breakfast nook and a 16-foot-wide dining terrace. Beyond the dining terrace is the single bedroom with en-suite bathroom and adjoining oceanfront patio. The 1 bedroom Bluff Suite accommodates up to 4 people sharing the single bedroom. The 2 bedroom Bluff Suite accommodates up to 8 people sharing the two bedrooms.
Tucked into the hill side, this refurbished suite with specious living room and large patio off from living room with infinity soaking pool with unobstructed views of Grace Bay beach.
Separate bedroom with king-size bed, marble bathroom and second terrace overlooking the surf beach.
The unique Terrace room is the most popular choice for newly-weds thanks to its private location at the very top of the bluff and breathtaking views over the beach, Morris Bay and the Caribbean Sea. White walls, bright sea-blue fabrics, one-of-a-kind
furnishings and glowing woods give the room a sense of calm, timeless sophistication. Its large 567-square-foot terrace with infinity edge plunge pool and romantic daybed is the ideal spot for private relaxation and dining.
The 40 Junior Suites are spread through three-story villas on the resort’s Surf Beach, a stone’s throw from the water. Junior Suits feature a sunken living room with sea-grass sofas and armchairs, accented with blues and greens that mirror the colors outside. Floor-to-ceiling glass doors lead on to verandas and terraces
overlooking the sea. The grand marble-and white-tile bathrooms have double sinks, big tubs and large, open-walled showers. The Junior Suite contains one king bed, which can be converted to 2 twin beds. Maximum occupancy of 4 persons.
The Bluff Rooms are high ceilings and offer a King Size bed, large terrace and a marble bathroom. For families requiring two
bedrooms, the Bluff Room can be added to a One bedroom Bluff Suite. The terrace affords a sweeping view of the surf beach.
Curtain Bluff’s most affordable accommodations, the 18 Deluxe Rooms fill a two-story Caribbean-style villa right on the Surf Beach, a short walk down a shaded pathway from the bar and restaurant. 9 rooms are on the beach level, with spacious terraces that lead straight out on to the sand. Spread out on the floor above, nine more have verandahs looking out over the sand and
sea to the distant headland. All are decorated in a colorful West-Indian style, with contemporary dark-wood furniture, white bedcovers and colorful accents that evoke the colors of the sea. The Deluxe Rooms contain a King Size bed which can be converted to 2 twin beds. Maximum occupancy 3 persons.
If the guest questionnaires are anything to go by, the food is one of the biggest reasons the loyal guests keep coming back year after year. Imaginative, varied and simply delicious, it has been praised by culinary magazines from Gourmet to Northeast Flavor. And, especially since all meals are included in the room rate, it’s what truly sets the value apart from the competitors.
In addition to breakfast and dinner (served in the Tamarind Tree Restaurant and the Seagrape) and buffet lunch (in the Seagrape), the staff serve afternoon tea on the stone Sugar Mill terrace overlooking the gardens and hors d’oeuvres at cocktail hour in the Sugar Mill Bar.
The restaurant sits at the far end of the Bay Beach, open to the sea breezes, right on the sand, and just feet from the water’s edge. At lunchtime, guests filter in from the beach wearing T-shirts and beach cover-ups to enjoy the famous lunch buffets (including the weekly beach-barbeque lunch accompanied by a
live steel-drum band). At night, open 4 or 5 times per week (based on time of the season), the Seagrape becomes a second dinner venue. Limited to just 40 guests per night, it serves delicious Italian/Antiguan influenced cuisine as tiki torches flicker on the sand and the sea is streaked by moonlight.
Italian/Antiguan
Open-walled in the traditional plantation style, the main restaurant looks out over a terrace canopied by the spreading limbs of a majestic tamarind tree. At breakfast the restaurant is shaded from the bright morning sun and cooled by a breeze from the sea, just visible through the palms.
The menu includes favorites like banana pancakes, French toast and Eggs Benedict, plus traditional island dishes, fresh juices and fruit. All breads, croissants and pastries are freshly baked by the accomplished pastry chef.
At dinner the tables are flecked with candlelight and the terrace sparkles with decorative lights. Changing every night, the five-course menu always includes salads, locally caught fish, outstanding meats, healthy options and so many desserts they have their own menu.
Each evening there is a different band and, as diners filter out of the restaurant to sit at the terrace tables, the tempo builds and couples dance in the moonlight.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
What makes a great spa? Walk down the winding path past the tennis courts and the lily pond and you will soon find out. And when you walk back down that path an hour or two later, something inside you has changed. All four treatment rooms have wide-open views over the water to distant Montserrat, Cades
Reef, St. Kitts, Nevis and Redonda. Before their treatments, guests sit outside sipping tea brewed from herbs fresh picked from the spa’s own garden. Afterwards, they relax on the open verandah, sitting in the Jacuzzi on the cliff edge and snacking on “Spa Bites” like steamed asparagus, fruit and vegetable kebabs.
Keeping fit in the modern air conditioned gym is a great way to work off the guilty pleasures of the luxury included approach to hospitality.
The tranquil and intimate 464 sq m2 spa sits apart from the rest of the resort just feet from the sea.
The resort offers a revolving series of Aficionado classes given by experts right here on the property.
Time moves more slowly at Curtain Bluff. There is room in every day to play a set of tennis, scuba dive or snorkel on the reef (all included in your stay), skim across the bay on a Hobie Cat, work out on the elliptical, melt into a massage, cast a line in the deep
blues, whoosh through the forest canopy on a zip-line, and delve into Antigua’s rich history or simply swing in a hammock to the rhythm of the waves and lose yourself in that long-awaited novel.
Curtain Bluff has a basketball court, perfect for a pick-up game with the guys.
At of the beach is the Beach Café and Bar, the place for delicious buffet lunches and barbecue right on the sand, surrounded by palms, lies the swimming pool with its two lap lanes.
You will see the coastline from deserted offshore islands to the downtown cruise-ship port, and from busy Dickenson Bay to pristine and rugged Half-moon Bay, over to nearby Montserrat to look down into the crater of its active volcano.
The most contemporary all inclusive luxury hotel for Caribbean incentive travel, Curtain Bluff Resort offers 1,500 square feet of flexible event space.
Picture the perfect honeymoon and you will understand why so many happy couples have chosen Curtain Bluff as the place to start their new life.
High above the harbor and reached by car or on foot via the Lookout Trail, Shirley Heights is a former fortress with superb views across the Caribbean to Montserrat and Guadaloupe.
Squash is an easy sport to pick up and is excellent exercise, once a favorite of the Brits it is now very much now finding vogue among the younger american guests.
It’s ideal for quiet contemplation, playing in the surf, and swinging in a hammock to the rhythm of the waves.
The tennis center has four championship hard courts centered around a pro tennis shop an easy lob shot from the sea.
Curtain Bluff has launched kids camp so the younger guests can make friends and experience the resort on their own terms.
Ask George Williams for a tour of the cellar or ask about joining one of wine tastings held in the cellar’s tasting room on friday afternoons.
A big favorite is the twice daily snorkeling trips, by boat, and also included in your stay!
Romantic Caribbean weddings At Curtain Bluff your special day is the special day.
Only a few minutes taxi ride away from the resort you can get geared-up for an adrenaline-coursing ride through the rainforest canopy and over plunging valleys.
Finding a resort that works for all members of a family is not always so easy. Yet Curtain Bluff seems to have cracked the code…so much so that many of the families return year after year, quickly turning their annual vacation into a family tradition. Centered around a shaded “basecamp” down on the calm-water beach, activities range from chocolate making to crab races, mocktail lessons at the bar to designing wind chimes.
The resort is quiet and self-contained, with all the activities. Which means that you and your kids can sail Hobie Cats and Windsurfers, dive, water-ski, go on snorkeling trips, and play tennis, basketball, squash, bocce and shuffleboard as often as you want, at no extra cost.
There is a shaded sandbox with full Jungle Gym for the little ones. The hotel have a Games Room designed specifically for the younger guests and equipped with board games, computers (loaded with all the latest video games) and a wide-screen TV (with cable and DVD player) on which the staff show age-sensitive films.
For the youngest guests, early dinners are served outside on the Tamarind Terrace at 18.00h. Babysitters can then look after children back in the room, freeing up parents for leisurely dinners and dancing to the nightly live bands.
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