Hotel of the week: Carlisle Bay, Antigua

Carlisle Bay is "all about its beach", says Claudia Winkleman in The Independent.

Every room in the hotel has a wall of glass opening onto it – the most perfect crescent of white sand imaginable, beside a sparkling sea in an "unspoilt" corner of Antigua.

The hotel itself – designed by Gordon Campbell Gray of London’s One Aldwych – is "seriously chic".

Rooms are "reminiscent of Manhattan loft apartments", with dark wood beds and pale lime-stone floors; and the two restaurants – the "completely open" beach-side Indigo and the more formal East – are both good. A "delicious" break-fast is included in the room rate.

Doubles from £463pn.
Contact: 001 268 484 0000;carlisle-bay.com ·