Were do I start. My self and my partner were married here at the beginning of Sep. We booked through Virgin, great experience, premium ecomony is great loads of room.

30 of us went out there and everyone had a great time. Yes the resort is 28 years old but you are not in yours rooms at all. Everything is spotless. The food is amazing loads of choice for fusy eaters. Lydias is great the best of the speciallity restraunts. The staff are great, Terry and Anne Marie the entertainment staff are brilliant. A special mention to Elvis who helped us out on the wedding day, what a top man always smileing.

Do not let the negative reports put you off, the beach is fantastic, watch out for jellyfish, they sting but only lasts for 5 mins, the harbour great. They tell you not to book off any thing from he guy's on the beach, we ignored this advise and book two trips from Tony. No problems at all, everything went well with the trips.

Get you jet ski off Plastic Fantastic great guy, even wet to Shirley Heights with us.

I have just returned from a 2 week holiday at the Jolly Beach Resort with my husband and 2 children (6&3). What a lovely place to be. Antigua is beautiful with the most amazing beaches. The sea was calm and warm with no strong currents. There were sunbeds available on the beach and around the pools at any time of the day . Apparently this was due to being out of season and November is when it starts to get busy.

Jolly Beach has two pools and we sat at the main pool. This was because it was where all the activities took place.( Volleyball, wateraerobics etc..). We preffered the beautiful beach but location allows you to have the best of both worlds.

The restaurants at the resort were better than we expected with a good choice of food. Our favorite was Lydias (fish restaurant). The main buffet restaurant had good food and breakfast was exceptionally good.
The staff were very helpful and if you have a problem they go out of there way to help solve it for you.
We had great weather with the odd bit of rain. The sun still shines as it rains and the locals call it liquid sunshine.

We had a fantastic holiday and would definately return.

We got married in March 07 at Jolly Beach Hotel, and the whole run up to our wedding, the stay at the hotel and our actual wedding day was made so special by all the staff at the hotel - but especially by Beverly.

We had planned our wedding through Virgin Holidays, and after filling in our form, Jolly Beach took care of everything.

Beverly, the wedding organiser was fantastic ( and she has a wicked sense of humour and great laugh as well ) - you have to register your marriage, so as part of the package, you go to St Johns and see the register, we were taken there and back with Beverly by car - again all arrangements were taken care of and once I had put that i wanted red as my main colour on the booking form Beverly organised everything.

I had a lovely bouquet of red/white flowers, the cake was decorated in same colours, the wedding chapel ( by the pool, and overlooking the beach ) had red flowers decorated round it and we also wanted a steel band, a dvd and photos - which again was all taken care of.

As part of my wedding package, i also had my hair done, and a manicure and pedicure, and I felt so pampered and relaxed ( at this time, my husband to be was in the pub!!)

Every little detail, from picking me up from my parents room, where i got ready, to Elvis *shushing* people at the pool to *posing* for pictures, was taken care of. Some were in the hotels grounds, and then we moved down to beach and my favourite one of us, I have had enlarged and is on my bookcase at home with pride.

After our wedding, we then had drinks on the patio - where people staying at the hotel would come up and congratulate us, and then we had a fantastic meal at the Italian.

To end the evening, as my husband ( love using that word )and I went to our suite, there were rose petals all over our bedroom/living room, and there were flowers on our towels, and champagne and glasses in a cooler, making a lovely end to our perfect day.

We had breakfast in bed the following morning with more bubbly.

I can honestly say, that I could not think of a single thing that I could have wanted or needed, everything was catered and looked after by the wonderful staff at Jolly Beach on my wedding day, but also the rest of our holiday/honeymoon was lovely.

Nothing is too much trouble for ANY of the staff, they were polite and always happy/smiling, the entertainment in the evening was good with either singing/steel bands/fire on beach with limbo dancing.

My husband ( see there I go again ) highly recommend Jolly Beach Hotel, and for anyone who is thinking of getting married abroad, I can only say, get married and stay at the Jolly Beach, or just go there for a relaxing holiday.

Pros:
All Inclusive. 5 of us spent 4 nights in two Standard rooms.
Rooms were a bit small, but comfy. 2 single beds each.
The food was great. Indian food was really good. Seafood was tasty. Staff was friendly and helpful. Beach was crazy good. Learned to sail, and sailed every day. Beach was clean and calm. 1 mile long. Guests were lively, pool bar was popular. Nightly entertainment. Lots of families.

Cons:
Too many birds in main dining area. They tried to net them out, but the birds got in anyway.

I am from Trinidad & Tobago.