Ensure you check with your cruise operator about Covid-19 restrictions around excusions. It’s easiest to book a ship-sponsored excursion on board before arrival, but it’s equally possible and more flexible to book a tour independently on arrival with one of the many, readily available taxis – they can be hired for a particular trip (to a beach bar, or Nelson’s Dockyard, for instance) or by the day for an island tour. The Antigua Museum and local vegetable market are five minutes’ walk. Close by is Redcliffe Quay, with restored trading buildings and traditional houses containing more shops and restaurants. Ships arrive at Heritage Quay in island capital St John'sĬruise passengers disembark into the pastel-painted Heritage Quay, which has shops and a tourist office, and then straight into the grid-iron streets of St John’s, a small bustling Caribbean town. Ships also anchor inside and outside Falmouth Harbour in the south-east, with passengers tendered ashore. Antigua can get quite busy: spillovers are accommodated at the commercial berth. The dock is right in St John’s, the capital in the north-west. As a naval centre in the days of empire, it has the Unesco-listed, historic Nelson’s Dockyard and fortifications as well as sailing and snorkelling to enjoy, before you retire to the sand. Ships arrive at Heritage Quay right in the capital St John’s, within walkable shopping and restaurants and bars. It is quite compact, easy to get around and the people are easy-going and friendly. Its meandering coastline has fantastic views and some of the Caribbean’s finest beaches and sea. Largest of the Leeward Islands, Antigua is very attractive – though not typically lush for the Caribbean. This expansion will create more opportunities for local entrepreneurs, which will, by extension, make a significant impact on the community.Although Foreign Office guidelines currently advise against sea-going cruises, Antigua is a Caribbean paradise that you should consider for your next holiday at sea Why go? “Our next area of focus is the $2 million uplift of the Heritage Quay Shopping Mall and the $25 million commercial development at Pointe. “This new business will complement our plan to convert Antigua Cruise Port into a home port by 2023, an idea which has piqued the interest of several major cruise lines,” said Regis-Prosper. The port is now collaborating with the Government of Antigua and Barbuda to develop new health protocols for the restart of sailing. The port has seen an increase in bookings following the construction of the fifth berth, with current projections suggesting that an estimated 285,000 passengers could visit Antigua between October and December of 2021. Our construction team, port employees, and other partners worked tirelessly to ensure that we remained on schedule and finished the job.” “We were especially thrilled to have maintained our construction timeline and finalised the pier project during the pandemic. “Global Ports Holding has successfully delivered on its commitment to complete the fifth berth and has repaid $21 million of debt on behalf of the government,” said Dona Regis-Prosper, general manager of Antigua Cruise Port.
The pier represents a $30 million investment, and forms part of the $80 million agreement signed in 2019 between Global Ports Holding and the Government of Antigua and Barbuda to redevelop the cruise complex. Antigua Cruise Port has completed construction of a new pier at St John’s Port, which increases the number of berths at the port to five.
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