Every tour on Antigua, put to the test.
Whether Stingray City deserves your one free morning. Which catamaran really sails the whole way round. What a Shirley Heights Sunday costs door to door. The answers, one review at a time.
Antigua counts its beaches in days of the year.
Locals will tell you the island has 365 — one for every day. Nobody has ever quite settled the count, which is rather the point: there is always an empty one somewhere. These are the beach days travellers rate highest, from west-coast calm to the wilder Atlantic side.
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The six days Antigua is booked for.
The sandbar full of stingrays, the catamaran that circles the island, the Georgian dockyard, the Sunday party on the Heights, the rum. Most trips get planned around a handful of days — here is the best way to book each one.
The Antigua question: Dockyard, sandbar, or sunset on the Heights?
Every Antigua tour →Three completely different days, all within a short drive of each other. Most visits only have room for one or two — this is how to choose.
Nelson’s Dockyard & English Harbour
A working Georgian dockyard — sail lofts, pitch houses and capstans still earning their keep — with fort ruins on the ridgelines above. The stones are better with a guide’s stories attached.
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Stingray City, before the boats fill up
A short boat ride off the northeast coast to a waist-deep sandbar where southern stingrays glide up to be fed. Morning runs get the clearest water and the thinnest crowds.
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Sunset from Shirley Heights
The old gun battery above English Harbour hosts the island’s longest-running party: barbecue smoke, steel pan through sunset, the harbour turning gold below. Go once and you understand Antigua.
See all 5 →What sells out first in Antigua.
Every review →The tours more travellers book than anything else on the island — and what makes each one worth its day.
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Adventure Antigua – The Xtreme Circumnavigation
Powerboat around Antigua in one day with stingray swim, Pillars of Hercules snorkeling, beach lunch, and rum punch at Rendezvous Bay.
From · $221
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Turtle Beach Power Snorkeling Adventure
from $132
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Scenic Full Day Tour of Antigua
from $142
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Snorkel – Lobster Lunch Cruise to Bird Island and Paradise Reef
from $185
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Adventure Antigua – Eli’s Original Eco Tour
from $142
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Antigua Round Island Tour
from $93
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Antigua VIP Tours – Private Platinum Tour
from $170
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Private Snorkeling and Sightseeing Tour of Antigua
from $125
Sail all the way round Antigua.
The island is small enough to circle in a day and interesting enough that the people who did it keep calling it the trip’s highlight: reef stops, cliff lines no road reaches, lunch on a quiet stretch of sand.
What a day out in Antigua costs.
Every tour on the site, sorted by what it actually costs. The island runs from a $35 beach day to a private charter — most of the classics sit in the middle.
Stingray mornings, e-bike loops, cooking classes and evenings out — most of Antigua’s best value lives here.
The classic full days: catamaran cruises, island loops with lunch, kayak-and-snorkel eco runs.
- 1Turtle Beach Power Snorkeling Adventurefrom $132
- 2Scenic Full Day Tour of Antiguafrom $142
- 3Adventure Antigua – Eli’s Original Eco Tourfrom $142
Private drivers, small-boat days and the splurges that turn one trip into the story you keep telling.
The Antigua that isn’t a beach day.
Turquoise water you can find across the Caribbean. A jerk lesson in a family kitchen, a rum that borrowed the harbour’s name, and the mangrove lagoons of the east coast — that mix belongs to this island.
A Morning at Nicole’s Table
Antigua’s best-loved cooking class happens in a home kitchen, not a hotel demo suite. Each session takes on one island menu — all about jerk, cooking with rum, coordinating a curry, the day’s catch — and you eat everything you make, slowly, the way lunch is meant to go here.
- 1Nicole’s Table – Cooking with Rum★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 112 reviews
- 2All About Jerk Cooking Class★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 19 reviews
- 3Rum Cooking Class with 6 Rum Tastings★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 6 reviews
Rum, the Antiguan Way
English Harbour is not just the famous anchorage — it is also the name on Antigua’s own rum. Tastings and small-group masterclasses walk you from cane to cask to glass, and the distance between a beach-bar punch and a properly aged pour turns out to be the whole lesson.
- 1Rum Making Masterclass Galleon Beach Antigua 2 People per Station★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 165 reviews
- 2Nicole’s Table – Cooking with Rum★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 112 reviews
- 3Rum Making Masterclass Galleon Beach Antigua for 1 Person★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 68 reviews
The Mangroves of the East Side
The west coast collected the resorts; the east kept the shallow lagoons, mangrove channels and reef flats you paddle rather than motor. Eco tours here move at kayak pace — herons overhead, water calm enough to watch your own shadow cross the bottom.
- 1Adventure Antigua – Eli’s Original Eco Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 238 reviews
- 2TRIPLE ACTIVITY TOUR, Bike Kayak Hike, ANTIGUA★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 211 reviews
- 3SoCoHo Eco Half Day – Mangrove Kayak & Reef Snorkeling★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 104 reviews
Antiguan rain rarely outlasts a rum punch.
Antigua is one of the drier islands in the Caribbean — most showers blow through in minutes and the sun comes back apologetic. If the sky does close in, the good answers are under a roof: a cooking class, a tasting room, a workshop bench. None of them care what the weather is doing.
Antigua, anchor point by anchor point
All Antigua136 tours
The Beaches24 tours- On the Water16 tours
Stingray City11 tours
The Dockyard & Forts10 tours
Round the Island19 tours
St John’s15 tours- Every review on the site →
Five Antigua days, laid out end to end.
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Shirley HeightsThe latest Antigua tour reviews.
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Cades Reef Snorkel Cruise from St. John’s Antigua
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Sip & Paint with lunch on exciting Ffryes Tiki beach Bar
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Shore Excursion: City of St John’s Sightseeing Tour
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Stingray City, Devil’s Bridge & Betty’s Hope Tour
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Drink Till Your Drunk Rum Drinking & Discovery Tour
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St. John’s, Drink Till Your Drunk Rum drinking & Sightseeing
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