Its empty, run down infrastructure but decent rooms and meals

Decent value for money as a 3 star property...don't raise your hopes

Yes, there were only a total of 7 people in and out for the 7 days we stayed. We only saw a couple of people besides staff. We loved it! When the pirate ship brought people in to "our beach", we went to the pool. When my husband and I go away like this, we don't like to deal with a ton of people. We like nice and quite. Some people have stated it was eerie, but we didn't think that. When we wanted to go explore, we called Sing, a cab driver that lives close by and he took us anywhere we wanted to go. He was very knowledgeable. Shirley Heights was awesome! We can't wait to return! I do wish the gift shop had been open while we were there, but it wasn't. No big deal, we went to the gift shop at the resort next door at the Coconut something. Our room was on the top floor and had a wonderful view.

I organized a wedding at the hotel in April for my dayghter and 16 other guests. I had read the reviews upto that date and wanted to give the place a chance.

I went to the island in full knowledge we were going to a Carribean island when the culture was tropical, the people are more relaxed and the pace slower.

i have read the most current reviews and feel they are grossly WRONG. I would respectfully suggest that those people who sould should take their vacations in Florida or New York do so, or take a pill.

To visit Antigua is to want to unwind, relax, lean to communicate with yourself, sure if you have to sit at the bar for 3 minutes to wait for a drink ...learn to breath, look around consider your situation......so the shower runs yellow for 15 minutes then runs clear thats what happens let is run clear, then let it run some more, then take a shower whats your problem if you had to be somewhare in those 15 minutes your in the wrong time zone

I had the mosrt relaxing fun time of my life and every one of my family will return to this hotel at some time in the future. The staff did all they could to make our stay relaxing and memorable. They were and i am sure still are all good people.

I’ve never really written a bad review before but the Grand Royal Antiguan is neither grand or royal. We were there for one night due to delays to our LIAT flight (don’t book with these guys either – we had a truly dreadful experience including a malfunctioning plane, 5 hours departure delay, missing the connection, having to stay overnight in this hovel, then finally reaching our destination to find out they had lost our bags and their staff genuinely didn’t care where our honeymoon suitcases).
In summary the place is a massive 1960s type tower block with a weirdly modern reception area but there was only one other couple there so it has a horrible eerie feeling. We went down to dinner where the other couple looked truly miserable as they must have booked in for a week. The bedroom was like a student lodging room with strip lights and horrible cheap furniture.
There was only one restaurant and there were no menus so the waitress told us the starter we could have (soup) and the two main course choices (fish or chicken curry). There was no one in the bar attached to the restaurant but they only had one beer.
My wife and I didn’t sleep a wink as the lumpy bed seemed to be crawling.
A weird experience staying here – truly horrific.
We discussed how this place could be improved but the only answer would be to knock it down and start again. It’s on a nice beachfront but otherwise is horrendous.