The club location is amazing only a 10 minute transfer from the airport which is nice and easy.

On arrival i was very much welcomed by the local staff, who all seemed happy and were willing to Help.

The food was fantasic with different dishes every evening, lunch bar snacks menu was very good too and at resonable price. Rum punch is great you must try it! i would fully recommend attending Punch Party on The Monday Night of your Hoilday it is a great way to meet other hoilday makers, and punch is free! The band is fantasic and stay till around 11-11.30pm and they also have enterainers that evening, the BBQ is exeptionally good.

Entertainment is held, nearly everynight they have magicians and mainly bands playing all sorts of music such as caribbean and jazz.

All local and UK staff are very friendly and welcoming, there fun and are allways on hand.

The spa is lovely and the facilites are fantastic the therapist(Alison) is amazing, her hands are touched by an angel! would reccommend to have a Facial or Aloe Vera wrap at the club!!!

The fitness classes are fantastic thanks to Owain.

There were very nice places to see outside the club and would reccommend if you go all the Way to Antigua is to go and have look!! English Harbour, Sting Ray City and St Johns find out more when your at the club there are some amazing places to see and do and they are not to be missed!

I would like to thank Colin and Martin, management team for a great stay at Sunsail Club Colonna and will see you all at Club Javlin next year 2008!!!

Faye Jones x

The hotel/club needs to be viewed in the context of the fact that the place is being closed next summer for a re-furb, which it needs. Hence the finish, fixtures and fittings in the rooms are tired.

As for the location, it is only 5-10 mins from the airport which is great for getting there quickly yet thankfully the resort does not suffer from aircraft noise.

There are two beaches, one for lounging/swimming, the other for exit/entry for the dinghys, and both are not much more than 40 yds in length, although there are two man made sandy peninsulas which are the main lounging areas, in addition to the pool area. Overall the outside lounging areas are fine, if a little cramped beachwise. The gym/spa area is pretty good, being more modern. The number of hobies, dinghys etc was fine, the beach staff good and lots of wind. We found the sailing side of things to be very good.

The food was pretty average, although with a mass catering buffet style you can expect little else at Sunsail prices. If you go with mediocre expectations you might be pleasantly surprised. The meats tended to be over-cooked which is a shame, but perhaps this is to err on the side of safety, hygiene-wise. Salads fine, if a bit dull.

You get a good mix of guests at these sorts of places and everyone was friendly and out for a good time.

As for the staff. Firstly, the locally recruited guys and girls are lovely and efficient. However the UK staff are very mixed. For the most part the female sailing staff were efficient, polite, and well presented. However, the male staff let the place down big time. On our first afternoon there was some drunk guy at the bar who the barman was clearly regarding as something of a nuisance. We thought it kind of weird that someone should be in such a bad way at 3 pm so imagine our surprise when he introduced himself to my husband as one of the sailing instructors! This was very much the theme for the male staff. If dribbling drunks leering over female guests is your bag then the Sunsail evenings will be a joy, but I found it actually quite unpleasant and rather insulting. On more than one occasion some staff were drunk in the restuarant before dinner! There appeared to be no senior management around to control what in effect were people who would be thrown out of any normal bar. The fact that they actually worked at the hotel should not have absolved them of decent behaviour. Hubby got quite angry at one stage and we weren't the only people annoyed by it. To be fair they were pretty much kids who must have taken a wrong turn at Faliraki, but First Choice needs to get a grip.

Anyway, once the place gets a refurb, tweeks the buffet quality up by 10%, and gets some decent local management then it'll be worth going to again. In fact it's all pretty easy to fix so don't be put off going later next year, but best wait till then.

I arrived at the airport at 11:00pm. Cleared customs, got my baggage and took a taxi to the hotel. I was checked in to Room 121 and the young lady led me to the room. She opened the door and then declared that somebody was occupying the room. With that, she opened 122 and put me in there. I wanted to phone my wife as I always do on arrival. The card by the phone said dial *6811. Ha! Good luck. It never worked. I went back to the front desk for help. It was after midnight and the young lady had gone. The security guard was very helpful, suggested I go back to my room, dial 0, he would answer and then connect me to the international operator.

Back to my room, but I could not get in. I had a key for 121. Back to the front desk. He had to call somebody down to make a new key for me. Back to the room. He tried many times but could not get an international operator. I asked him to quit, I have to sleep so I never did call my wife.

After five days they wanted me to move me to another room. No problem, I had been warned this might happen. I was moved to 123, the identical room next door. So what was the point of that? The phone in that room was haunted. Every two minutes it would ring once but there was nobody there - just the dial tone. I pulled the plug in order to get some sleep.

The sailing was terrific, pool was huge and staff were incredibly nice and helpful. A little more variety in the salads and olive oil would have been nice, but still overall it was quite good. Unfortunately we won't be going back to Antigua again though due to the recent expropriation of a significant piece of land and resort there by the Antiguan government. Investors in Antigua beware.