CHEAP CARIBBEAN HOLIDAYS

A self catering holiday within a hotel environment has to be potentially the best of both worlds. The freedom of self catering, and the facilities of what will normally be an affordable hotel.

The Butterfly Beach Hotel is no exception to this rule, sitting in the Christ Church area of Barbados in a lovely oceanfront location with access to two white sand beaches. With 90+ rooms it isn’t too big so as to be impersonal, although only rated as two star it could be ideal as a decent quality affordable hotel.

The Butterfly Beach Hotel is what might best be called a mixed accommodation hotel with some Superior Rooms but no kitchenette, then the Superior Island View Studio, but with no balcony to sit on, with a kitchenette, called The French Balcony Rooms. Then there is the Superior Island View Studio as above but with a balcony or a terrace. The Superior Oceanview Studio as before, but with Oceanview obviously!

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An Antigua Holiday spent in a family owned oceanfront hotel could be a dramatically different way to take a vacation especially if you choose the Long Bay Hotel. It is situated on the northeast coast of Antigua flanked by a beach and a lagoon, and close to the Indian Town and Devil’s Bridge National Parks.

The best way of describing the Long Bay Hotel is to say it is small, with less than thirty rooms, old fashioned, and almost with the feel of a members only country club to it, absolutely worlds away from the all-inclusive hotels that dor the Caribbean like a rash. The fact that it is privately owned makes it much more personal, and this becomes obvious the longer you stay there. There is almost something slightly eccentric about it, and unlike many hotels in the world where you ate cocooned and could be anywhere, the Long Bay Hotel will leave you with many happy memories of what Antigua must have been like twenty or thirty years ago.

To go into slightly more detail, it has been described as the top B & B in Antigua, although a better description might be that it is a top Caribbean Hotel in Antigua. To call it a B & B hardly does it justice, it is much better to think of it as a top, if old fashioned Caribbean Hotel which just happens to be in this lovely corner of Antigua.

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