Critics Choice
Runner up as the 'Best Worldwide Hotel' - Readers' Awards, Sunday Times Travel, 2008
Runner up as the 'Best Caribbean Hotel' - The Ultratravel 100 Awards, The Telegraph, 2008
2008 Grand Award Winner Mexico / Caribbean - Andrew Harper
"Gordon Campbell Gray's resort has brought the island 21st century zing." Vanity Fair, 2008
"Carlisle Bay has set an entirely new standard for Antigua" - Andrew Harper's Hideaway Report, 2007
"Everything, from the service to the decor, is quietly luxurious" - Cosmopolitan Bride, 2007
"Carlisle Bay has a library that will make you want to be a librarian. It's all about being somewhere unique; feeling special" - The Guardian, 2007
"It manages to pull off the difficult trick of being fabulously cool and completely unintimidating... It's a place of wonder: hyper-chic but Caribbean cool, unintrusive, soothing, modern and very beautiful" - The Observer, 2007
"One of the best spas in the Caribbean, the Blue Spa has six breezy treatment rooms and an unthreatening gym with views of the mangroves" - Tatler, 2006
"This five star hotel brings a fresh, cosmopolitan perspective to the West Indies" - Jezebel, 2006
"Table for two? They don't come much more romantic than at designer-colonial Carlisle Bay, the sister hotel to London's slick One Aldwych" - The Sunday Times, 2006
"If indulgence, relaxation and the perfect weather for tennis are what you wish for in a holiday, then Carlisle Bay fits the bill quite superbly" - ACE Tennis Magazine, 2006
Hotel of the Year – Tatler Travel Guide 2005
The Sunday Times Hot List for 2004
"A sexy combination" – Herbert Ypma, Hip Hotels Beach 2004
"A bracing dash of modernity in the Caribbean" – Travel and Leisure USA
"Carlisle Bay has an air of extraordinary peace and calm about it, a million miles from the bling-bling showbiz fandango that goes on in some other Caribbean resorts" – Financial Times
"This is a place that feels like a sanctuary, the perfect retreat in which to wind down" – The Saturday Telegraph
"Gorgeous service by people who smile at you" – Tatler
"Pure, elegant and luxurious - simply a dream" – Reiseblick, Switzerland
"It’s the staff who are largely responsible for the relaxed atmosphere; there’s none of the snobbery you get in some five-star hotels" – The Guardian
"Hot, figuratively and literally" – Gotham
"This season’s supermodels: the best-looking new resorts… Carlisle Bay, Antigua" – London Evening Standard
"A design coup in the Caribbean" – Travel and Leisure USA
"Its modern colonial style will set new standards for Caribbean design" – Wallpaper
"The biggest story around the islands this winter is the opening of a hotel that turns Caribbean style on its head" – Financial Times
"The most talked about new hotel in the Caribbean this year" – The Daily Telegraph
"An explosion of glamour… Carlisle Bay is the wake-up call the Caribbean needed" – Tatler
"The Caribbean’s first 21st century design hotel" – The Sunday Times
"A true hideaway where style and laissez-faire form a unique symbiosis" – Bolero, Switzerland
"That is the feeling one has at Carlisle Bay - of being liberated from the clutter of everyday life" – Town and Country
"A is for Antigua going A-list, thanks to the Carlisle Bay Hotel" – In Style
"Designed with all the touchstones of contemporary international cool" – The Saturday Telegraph
"There was that indescribable whiff of paradise in the air... never have I been made to feel so genuinely welcome" – Ann Patchett, Gourmet
"This hotel has us weak at the knees" – Elle
"One of the Caribbean’s most stylish resorts" – Food and Wine
"Luxury for body and mind - at Carlisle Bay, Antigua, the Caribbean takes a break from itself" – Vogue, Germany
"A beachside sanctuary where they really have thought of everything" – Marie Claire
"If the soul could choose a true refuge, it might want to choose Carlisle Bay" – Neue Zurcher Zeitung am Sonntag, Switzerland
