St. James's Club & Villas, Antigua

Spent a week here with our 8-year-old and had a wonderfully relaxing stay. The resort makes a strong first impression with beautiful, well-kept grounds and genuinely welcoming staff. Quick thanks to Alton and reception desk. There’s a noticeable culture of friendliness, staff and guests alike greet each other, which creates a pleasant atmosphere. Our villa was spacious, spotless, and offered stunning balcony views. Dining across breakfast, lunch, and dinner was varied and enjoyable, and the dining team were consistently attentive, special thanks to Chef James, Hushane and Milton for thoughtful touches during our stay. The resort also did a fantastic job with the Super Bowl and Valentine’s celebrations. The beaches and pools were perfect for families, cocktails were excellent (mobile bar nice touch), and the café was ideal for snacking in between meals or for a quick tea/ coffee served by very friendly staff. The Friday beach party buffet was another highlight, combining great food with lively entertainment. Thanks to the GM Riann for arranging the sunset cruise boat ride at the last minute, beautiful scenery, friendly crew, and great snacks and drinks (though the return trip was a bit wavy!). Overall, we would absolutely recommend this resort for a relaxing, well-cared-for getaway in Antigua.

My husband and I stood here over xmas week and it was amazing. The staff was awesome, attentive and friendly. Food and drink option was great. Facility may need a few upgrades and deeper cleaning but overall was good for us to relax. We barely were in our rooms anyways with great weather a beach infront and pool. Location is good if you aren't looking to leave facility otherwise nowhere to locally walk to. I will recommend the Pink Panter with Yahaira and Ana a road tour which they provided with lots of history and stopped at great spots. They also provided great laughter with snacks and drinks. We're definitely coming back.

Just returned from our holiday at St James club Antigua. We had a fabulous time. The resort is outstanding. The premium room was large and well maintained and had a lovely view of the garden and ocean. Food was delicious with five restaurants to choose from. Everywhere was well maintained and service was exception. The staff here really make it stand apart from other resorts. Special shout out to Rhiaan the General Manager who was always available for any queries. Ozzy, Aleshia (Cookie) Hashane, Cordel, Gia all are credit to the resort and made our stay amazing and fun! Thank you and hope to see you all again soon.|Tracy & Dave RM119

We stayed at St James's Club for 2 weeks. Absolutely fantastic in every way. Large clean rooms. Beautiful location with the 2 large beaches that are cleaned daily. Super friendly staff. 5 restaurants that provide a great variety of top notch food. Lots of sports activities available. Evening entertainment available at the Jacaranda bar or Docksider most nights. And local car hire companies will deliver and collect a car for you to the hotel reception. Perfect 👌

Our party of 5 spent a week in 2 beachfront rooms. The rooms are nice -- large and have awesome views of CoCo Beach and the ocean. Would definitely recommend the beachfront rooms but if you choose that accommodation be mindful of whether you book a 1st floor or 2nd floor room. We were in 2nd floor rooms which afforded us wonderful views (see attached) but 1st floor rooms have direct beach access which would have been much more convenient. Be aware that broadcast television options are extremely limited but of course you don't travel to the Caribbean to watch television in your room. But when you do want to watch TV, you will pretty much be limited to your streaming services (our U.S. based Apple TV, Netflix and Amazon Prime subscriptions worked -- our Paramount and YouTube TV subscriptions did not). The beaches are nice and have great views, and they were not crowded during our stay, particularly CoCo Beach. The food at the resort was good and with a couple of very limited exceptions, the staff was very friendly. We would have appreciated more food and drink options on or near the beach, and while our rooms were nice, the lack of amenities in the rooms was really annoying. Other than 2 bottles of water at check in and a single cup drip coffee maker, the resort does not provide you with any food or drinks in your room which was really disappointing for an all inclusive resort charging the rates that they charged during our stay. Not only did they not provide those in room items, but the bar and restaurant staff were very reluctant to allow us to get food and drink items to take to our rooms. Also, the resort charges a $50 per person fee for dining at Piccolo Mondo which seems excessive. While we enjoyed our stay and had an overall positive experience, I don't feel like the resort provided a good value. Or put another way, I would have expected more for what we paid. ||If you go to this resort, be prepared to do some walking. The resort is spread out and somewhat hilly but the grounds are very well maintained. If you go on an all inclusive package, don't freak out when you 1st go to a restaurant and see prices on the menu (that happened to us). Apparently the resort offers day passes to people who are not staying at the resort and the menu prices apply to those people (we didn't know this when we 1st arrived). Not related to the resort but I would also recommend considering airport arrival and departure VIP options. We did it exactly backwards on our trip -- we had VIP arrival service which proved to be practically worthless because our escort all but abandoned us as we had a hiccup with our immigration forms (more on this below). We did not have VIP departure service which in hindsight was a mistake as it took us forever to get through customs and security because of the lines. ||Regarding the immigration forms, you have the option of submitting online immigration forms 72 hours prior to your arrival. If you do that, you will receive a QR code that you will present to the immigration agent at the airport. Do this! We did not (because our destination was a surprise for our kids) and our Delta flight crew told us that if we didn't already have a QR code, all we needed to do was complete 1 paper immigration form for each family. That is not accurate -- the immigration officers at the airport do not accept paper forms so once we got to the immigration checkpoint with our paper form, we had to get out of line to do the online submission from our phones in the airport and then go back through the line again. Don't make that mistake.

We have just returned from a 12 day holiday at the St James Club Antigua. This is a fantastic resort with a great choice of food and amenities with spacious well kept rooms. The General Manger “Riaan Thiart” is a great asset, always making himself available for the smallest enquiry and makes sure that any problem is quickly rectified. The five restaurants serve a vast range of well prepared and presented food under the watchful eye of the food services manager Hushane. The amities team under Aussie provide a full day of activities which are well run, or you can just find a quite part of the beech. Water sports are provided and the equipment and centre are professionally run and the staff are always there to help.|If you are looking for a family or couples holiday this is definitely the resort to go to.|A big thank you to all the staff at St James’s Club Antigua for making our stay so very special and memorable. |We will return Dave & Tracy RM119

It was our second trip to St James Club in the last 6 years. This visit surpassed the first. The grounds and location are perfect for an island getaway. We were on the beach on the Atlantic side in the Mango building on the second floor and our room was perfect with an amazing view, especially at night. The staff was friendly, engaging, and accommodated our every need. The food and drinks were perfect each day and at all available locations. The Mamora Bay Bar is great in the afternoon for drinks at the beach, and the Reef Deck Bar by the pool is wonderful in the morning after an amazing breakfast at Rainbow Garden. We walked each morning, snorkeled, sailed and visited English Harbor. Highly recommend for families with children of all ages. Lots to keep them engaged.

I just recently had a stay here with my boyfriend, and overall the trip was lovely, but I have a few things I’d like to share that we were not happy with. 1. We booked a boat excursion for the two of us, and were told by the hotel to be in the lobby at a certain time (8:15 AM) to be picked up by an arranged taxi service that the hotel organized, that we would be paying for. When we got to the lobby, on time at 8:15 AM, we immediately asked the front desk about the whereabouts of the taxi. They said they would call them and assured us it would be here soon. We ended up waiting an extra 40-45 minutes for the taxi, and because of this we missed the boat which left from a port that we drove all the way to anyways (across the island, 45 minute drive). Our taxi driver then felt so bad about the miscommunication that she called the excursion company and asked them to turn around and dock at another resort to pick us up so that we could make the trip, in which an entire ship of about 60-80 people had to wait for their trip to start because of us two. It was absolutely INSANE and extremely unclear as to why the taxi never picked us up on time, especially since we alerted the resort that we were waiting. We ended up having a great day, but it was stressful and chaotic getting there due to poor communication from the resort. We never ended up saying anything to the staff because there were multiple times they were rude about any complaint we had, and it ended up working out so we made the best of it, however it was all due to the taxi drivers lovely commitment to get us onto the boat! We should’ve been compensated in some way by the resort but we didn’t even communicate the issue because we didn’t want to waste the time. 2. The times for dining were very limited. Every all inclusive resort I’ve stayed at had at least one buffet or bar open during middle of the day hours. We found ourselves scrambling for food before 4:00pm so that we did not have to wait until our reservations (730-8PM) to eat. And on top of it, the buffet would start cleaning up and putting everything away ~45 mins before closing, so even if we made it to that window, we still somehow were short of eating. It was just odd, and have never had the issue of being able to eat at any time on a resort like this. 3. Room service - We requested room service at a normal hour (6PM) and then got a call back asking for us to come retrieve it ourselves from a restaurant all the way up the hill, that would require a golf cart to get to. We were also promised it would be ready in 20 minutes when it took over an hour, and then had to get it ourselves and bring it back to our room. It was the complete opposite of what the definition of room service is, and the staff made us feel crazy for expecting it to be brought to us. Room service did also not include any champagne or wine, which again, in all my all inclusive stays, I was surprised by, especially given the price of our stay. They also do not offer it past 10PM, so at that point, it was always best to go out to eat. We also were told upon arrival we’d get a welcome drink, which we never did. 4. We were charged for using the phone line to order the room service that we didn’t even receive.^ I have NEVER been charged at a resort for using the room’s phone. 5. Everything overall just closed like an hour earlier than advertised, as mentioned earlier with the weird hours for dining. For example, We were told of a martini bar being held in the lobby from 6-730pm for guests to enjoy, and headed down for a martini around 710pm just for the whole thing to be cleaned up and that we “just missed it.” It was weird, and this happened so much, and there was never any extra stretch to make it right with us. 6. We got attitude from the staff for pretty much anything we asked for. I do want to note, the rooms were SPOTLESS, so I have to mention how fabulous the cleaning staff was. We always had fresh towels and clean sheets, and every speck of dirt or crumb was cleaned up every day. Definitely impressed by the cleanliness.