We've just come back from two week in Antigau and Nevis where we spent the last week at Curtain Bluff which is reputed to be one of the island's premiere hotels.
There's no quibblling with the stunning location and the water sports and other facilities were top rate but the rest just didn't live up to our hopes.
Service was sloppy and at times just rude. The buffet style lunch was fine and dinner was ok but the breakfast was dull and uninspiring with no variation. The accomodation was dated - the fixtures and fittings in our bathroom were just worn out. Having the cleaners cupboard outside our room didn't help either as it was like Piccadiliy Circus with all the cleaners gathering for a gossip....
We like our wine but on the occassions we ordered from the list we were lucky if our wine arrived before the main course was served. This was made worse by the fact that the red wine was chilled and took some while to come up to temperature which meant we either let our food go cold waiting for the wine to warm up, drank chilled red wine or - more often than not - ate our meal and drank the wine afterwards. And don't get me started on the entertainment....
Apparently there are many many loyal people who have been visiting CB for 10, 20 or 30 years so I can only assume that the hotel doesn't worry about attracting new customers. Our overall impression was that the hotels management has become lazy and arrogant and nothing at the hotel made us want to return..

We travel since several years in the Carribean, seaking our personal private paradise. After having stayed in several luxury resorts (Guananhani, Old Bahama Bay, Biras Creek, etc.) we decided to visit Curtain Bluff. We stayed there last summer after having heard and read a lot about this outstanding resort.
Overall:
It is a very beautiful place and we loved the carefree environment (don’t care about tipping, it is all included).
Activities:
I liked especially the sports classes (personal training, as I was mostly the only one taking part).
My husband preferred taking out the hobie cat or we just lied down on the beach.
Don't miss the snorkel trip, it is worth while and the snorkel staff is really caring.
There are a lot of other things to do as well.
We don't like the water-skiing, as it disturbs the quietness on the beach.
Food:
The food was a bit disappointing, especially the breakfast, always the same few choices of fresh fruit, compared e.g. with Biras Creek in BVI very poor.
Lunch was very good (buffet style) and dinner was o.k. but nothing outstanding.
We expected more.
Drinks:
The cocktails drinks they made were not much to my liking, as they all tasted like Rum Punch, also the bar stuff was not very welcoming.
The house wine was also not our taste, so we ordered a la carte and made the experience that quite a lot wines on the list were not available.
The bar itself is no place to lay back and enjoy the evening; it is very dark and somewhat outdated.
All other staff members were very caring and attentive.
The place has no air condition, which is o.k., but not in summer. Usually, we don't need air condition, but it was so hot and humid, the fans are not enough to cool down, we had problems to sleep well. They told us, that they will close down the following years in summer, so this problem will not occur in other seasons. Evening entertainment:
There is live entertainment in the evening every night. We would have enjoyed this possibility to dance under the stars, but it was nearly impossible, as during our stay the band played songs matching to the teenagers staying there and their likings (more like square dance, they occupied nearly the whole dancing area, which is really spacious).
Another problem was that we heard the music really loud in our first room (junior suite).
They took care of the problem by grading us up into an executive suite, which we enjoyed a lot (beautiful accommodation!).
Unfortunately, the steel band only played once the week we stayed there at lunch time.
Let them play in the evening with a barbecue on the beach, which would be a stunning experience!
Over all for us near paradise, but we will look further to find ours.

Just Returned from a week at CURTAIN BLUFF RESORT.IT WAS OPPRESSIVELY HOT AND HUMID WHICH MADE IT TERRIBLY UNCOMFORTABLE.Stayed in a JUNIOR SUITE which had two fans which helped somewhat but did not give us much relief.The resort will be finally putting in a/c in the rooms and that will help.The food was just adequate not nearly five star.We are used to fine dining in NYand that it was not.It was tennis week and the resort was inundated with loud,obnoxious people that got a heavily discounted vacation.They overran the resort.In the past,the resort did not sell rooms during that week but since there were less players than usual,they did.Big mistake for those of us who were there for total peace and quiet.After staying at the One and Only Ocean club,Caneel Bay and Cuisinart in Anguilla,this is not one of our favorites.The ocean had so many rocks near the shore,that those guests that attempted entry got their feet badly cut.We did not even try and spent most of the time in the pool.Have been to many caribbean islands and have never encountered that.We met people that stayed at the Carlisle Bay hotel,down the road and they did not have issues with rocks. As far as the staff,we found them not overly accommodating.I requested a shrimp cocktail for dinner and was told NO,same for mango at breakfast!!!!!!.Only after complaining to the manager,did both items miraculously appear.Am used to much better service.If we do go back to Antigua,may got to Carlisle bay,Jumby Bay or Blue Waters..

Since I rely so heavily on these reviews when booking our trips, It would be remiss not to participate. My wife and I were actually there almost a year ago but what the hey, better late than never.
First of all let me state that this is a nice resort with top notch/friendly service. The rooms are also very nice and spacious. However, I just can't seem to relate to these tremendous reviews.
Some observations:
The "calm" beach where everybody goes is decent but beautiful? no way. I more or less grew up on a beach so maybe I'm a little biased but the sand and water were nothing special.
The food/dining were certainly not gourmet. Ok, just not memorable. The lunches at the beach restaurant were our favorite.
No air-conditioning, maybe we caught a humid week, but we could have used it.( should have followed my instincts abouth no a/c but won't make that mistake again.
While the grounds were beautiful and well-kept the main building itself is in need of renovation. The bar area is very small and dark. The outside lounge is just dated. Again just my opinion, but the bar just wasn't a cool place to hang and relax. No atmosphere.On the plus side, the balcony area of our junior suite was a nice place to have cocktails. just pick up the phone and room service had your drink there in 3 minutes, cool...
Had bloody mary's at the gracious owners house on the point/cliff, beautiful....
Sorry for the mixed review, but the world has many shades....