I signed up for a last minute deal to Antigua. Knew nothing about the place other than it was warm and not snowing! For the very inexpensive price, and after reading many of the reviews here -- I expected a funky hotel. I was very pleasantly surprised. The hotel is situated on a beautiful bay. The hotel is divided into 3 groups of rooms: standard, bayview, and oceanview, and it has 2 wings, East and West. The standard rooms are in the back facing the mountain. Floors 1-4 in the front are called Bayview, they have a balcony and face the sea. The Bayview is $50/pp. (they are called Bayview because you can only see the bay and not the ocean further away) Oceanview rooms are on floors 5-8. Many of the ocean view rooms have a refrigerator. The upgraded price is $100/pp -- and well worth it. The West wing is better than the East wing because you are further away from the restaurant and noisy generator. If you can, request a room on a higher floor on the West Wing. That is ideal. You definately will not want to be in the standard rooms if you can help it. There is a big difference between the rooms facing the sea and the back.The rooms were clean. They all had TV's although some of the TV's did not have remotes. Our room had a TV w/o remote but after 3 days of pestering they found the remote. The views from the room were beautiful.Having a refrigerator was fantastic because it allowed us to stock up on food and drinks. I never ate the food at the hotel because it was very expensive and reputed to be very bad. (not worth the price)The hotel is far from town and the cabs are very expensive ($24/US for a 3 mile ride for 4 people) However, there is a fantastic little local corner restaurant about a 15 minute walk down the road where we loved to eat. (Penseons Corner <--sp?) Fresh fish, burgers, funky tables on the water. Plus, you can take a local bus to town (bus stop about a 10 minute walk from the hotel) which costs a dollar US. There are some good restaurants there -- very cheap to moderately priced. Southern Fry was one local favorite. An enormous amount of food costing aroung $4/US. Big Banana was good too. Everyone seemed to rave about the pizza there. I had a fantastic time in Antigua and well worth the price. It is a very laid back island. If you are looking for exciting night life, this is not the place for you. But if you are looking for a relaxing time, beautiful weather, friendly people, lots to explore -- you will love it there. I could go on and on about various tours -- what to do and what not to do. But I will stop for now.