Barbuda Cottages

Best family vacation spot! Barbuda Cottages exceeded our expectations! The owners Kalcina and Oliver are the nicest, most accommodating people and they went out of their way to make our vacation special. The cottages are beautiful and so well equipped. Groceries were stocked in the cottage when we arrived. The food and service at Uncle Roddy’s were top notch. The beaches are secluded with crystal clear turquoise water, and amazingly soft sand. Kalcina helped us plan a few excursions and even arranged for a steel band to play at the restaurant one night. They arranged for taxi rides as needed and yoga on the beach. Our family of 6 had the best vacation in the 3 bedroom yellow cottage. Would highly recommend this place for a low key vacation in a beautiful setting.

This is the most amazing place I’ve ever been. The island of Barbuda is an untouched gem. Go there before all the resorts come in and turn it into St. Maarten or some other tourist destination. Me and my wife spent 4 days at there and I wish we would have spent 4 weeks. We rented a car from Karen’s Car Rentals and she dropped it off right at our cottage. We spent a few days exploring the island and didn’t see anyone for 2 days. The cottages are every bit as beautiful as the pictures show. They are extremely private, clean, well furnished with comfortable beds and furniture. Each cottage also has its own pergola on the beach. The resort is quiet and very private. If you want to be alone or feel like you’re alone but still have access to all the amenities that you need then this is a dream come true. Kelcina and her family handled everything so wonderfully, from picking us up at the ferry to arranging for a flight back to Antigua and coordinating the car rental. And the food and drinks at uncle Roddy’s are amazing. The staff is great, super friendly and made us feel like family. I will go back many times. If you’re looking for a lively nightlife, this is not the place. If you want relaxing, quiet, secluded, then this is it. Go now.

Barbuda Cottages should be on everyone’s bucket list. If you want a remote, peaceful vacation where you can truly unwind, this is your place. The cottages are very comfortable, the bed linens so soft, and the location on the beach is magical. Oliver and Kelcina are excellent hosts! Uncle Roddy’s has excellent food and unbeatable service. Highly recommended!!

If you are a world traveler, this is a must for your bucket list. If you just love the Caribbean, turquoise water, white sand beaches where there’s never a crowd,.this is also a must. I chose Barbuda Cottages for my birthday to get away unwind and be surrounded by nature. I could not have picked a better place in the world to come with my best friend and be off the grid and truly relax. I give the family run business 10 stars because they are so accommodating, knowledgeable and friendly !! They were very helpful from the moment I got off the plane in Barbuda to my Adventures including Princess Dianna Beach and the pink Sand Beach beach excursions I love the restaurant Uncle Roddies. The view is amazing. Looks like something out of a movie and they have a great bar in the evening with live jazz music some nights. The only thing I could have asked for was a couple more days but I will be back! Treat yourself. Life is short. If you deserve a reset this is a place for you.

This place was perfect for our family. We stayed 4 nights in the yellow cottage and it fit our family of 6 perfectly. The hosts are extremely responsive and go above and beyond with helpfulness from anything we needed, or advice on places to go on the island. The restaurant is wonderful and a 10 second walk away. Great food options for adults and kids. The beach is very private, decent snorkeling, and they provide kayaks and paddleboard to use. As well as a private cabana area with comfortable beach chairs and shade. It was perfect for adults only, or with kids, as I can't see anyone not loving their stay here. We can't wait to come back!

Barbuda Cottages was an incredible escape for our family ~ we could feel the stress melting away the moment we arrived. We stayed in the two bedroom/two bath Green Cottage which is well equipped with everything we needed. The cottage was a few steps from the beach and listening to the waves while drifting off to sleep was a highlight for me. ||Kelcina, Oliver and the entire team are truly amazing at making all guests feel welcomed and spoiled. Spectacular customer care! Kelcina assisted us in making reservations, reserving transportation, and also connecting us with a taxi on Antigua on our way home. We appreciated that the property is eco-friendly using solar power, etc. ||The onsite restaurant, Uncle Roddy’s has a delicious selection of food and drinks. We ate lunch and dinner there on several days. The menu was extensive enough that we were able to try several different dishes ~ all very yummy. Two of us are vegetarians and we had enough choices as well.||Thank you to Kelcina, Oliver and family for taking great care in making our stay so special. We feel blessed to have had the opportunity to stay there and are already plotting our return visit. For now, our amazing memories & photos will need to suffice until we go back!

This is definitely the place to stay in Barbuda. Kelcina, Oliver and their staff are kind, gracious and very accommodating hosts. The cottages are right on the beach, comfortable, and very clean. There is a restaurant on site- super convenient and the food is good. If you need help setting up a trip to the Frigate Bird Sanctuary or the caves, they will accommodate you. Need a car? They have those for rent, too. We had a great stay and would not hesitate to recommend this wonderful little gem of a place!

We stayed at Barbuda Cottages for three nights. Overall, we very much enjoyed our stay: the cottages were nicely furnished, very spacious and clean, with a super nice porch that had an incredible view over the sea. There is a fully stocked kitchen, but no A/C (which we knew about before booking and was not a problem at night) - WiFi was surprisingly good, given the remoteness of the island. The location is perfect, there is nice beach right by the property and it is just a few minutes’ drive from Princess Diana beach (which is gorgeous). There is also Uncle Roddy’s restaurant on-site (open only for lunch and dinner, not breakfast) which offered great service and food. The owners, Kelcina and Oliver, are also very nice and helpful. Overall, we would definitely recommend visiting Barbuda (we travel a lot and I cannot think of another place with so beautiful beaches and so few people) and staying at Barbuda Cottages, it is a perfect location to unplug and relax. That said, I believe there are some areas of improvement, mostly around communication. We booked a car via the property (there are very few cars for rental in Barbuda, seems the norm to book via your accommodation) and the day before arriving we wrote the property to confirm if the car would be at the airport at our arrival - we got no reply. Eventually, one of the owners was at the airport to greet us (which was great), but it would have been nice to know that someone would have been there to pick us up, we were not really sure what to expect given the no reply (and would have also been good to know that the pick-up charge was 80 ECs, which was only clear to us when we settled the final bill). Additionally, it would have been helpful if they had mentioned that the rental car did not take credit card (and there is only one ATM on the island and that works only half of the time). There was also some unclear communication around arrangements done with a water taxi to visit some of the locations on the island (piece of advice here: ask about this as soon as you arrive so hopefully this can be arranged ahead of time, there seems to be very few water taxis and they seem not to be too flexible about where they take visitors). Finally, and this is just a suggestion, it would have been great to have a short document or a map with a summary of which locations should be visited on the island, how one can get there (i.e., car or boat or walk) and what can and cannot be visited (we found that many roads are closed due to construction or we found that some roads may be open, but have really bad terrain). In most other places we visited, Google Maps and other trip reports are perfect to provide this info, but in Barbuda, Google Maps is more wrong than right and trip reports are very few (and info is often out of date), so it would be super helpful if the accommodation could make this info available in the room.