Barbuda, Antigua's little sister

Originally settled in 1680 by Christopher Codrington, a member of the Codrington family with sugar plantations in Antigua, Barbuda has been an integral part of Antigua for centuries. With subsequent leases granting additional rights to the substantial wreckage along Barbuda's surrounding reefs to Christopher and his brother, John, they became the island's pre-eminent family. For many years, the Codrington lands in Barbuda supplied produce and slave labour to the family’s plantations in Antigua.

Barbuda is today a beautiful unspoilt Caribbean island with incredible pink and white sand beaches for an incredibly unique Caribbean holiday with numerous chartered wrecks in the off-shore waters, virgin reefs, and Barbuda's Frigate Bird Sanctuary, located in the island's north western lagoon and is accessible only by boat. The sanctuary contains over 170 species of birds and is home to over 5,000 frigate birds. Fregata magnificens, the most aerial of waterbirds, also known as the man o’ war bird, possesses the largest wingspan (four to five feet) in proportion to its body size of any bird in the world.

Remnants of Barbuda’s past can been seen on Barbuda's highest point at 124 feet with Highland House, the ruins of the Codrington estate, and on the island's south coast still sits the 56-foot high Martello castle and tower, a fortress that was used both for defence and as a vantage from which to spot valuable shipwrecks on the outlying reefs, which now attract scuba divers and snorkelers from all over the world.

Barbuda offers a Caribbean holiday with a choice of Caribbean holiday accommodation in three first class resorts, Coco Point Lodge, Hotel Palmetto, and the K-Club, plus the option of renting a Caribbean villa or staying in a guesthouses ot a number of typical Caribbean hotels.