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All-Inclusive Details
The majority of amenities at this resort are included in the room rate; guests will not be charged extra for meals, drinks, gratuities, and use of nonmotorized water-sports equipment.
All-Inclusive food and beverages Three meals daily Afternoon tea and pre-dinner appetizers Unlimited nonalcoholic beverages and domestic- and international-brand drinks at restaurants and bars Continental-breakfast room service In-room mini-refrigerator with soft drinks, beer, water Taxes and gratuities for all plan inclusions
Not included: Lobster on à la carte menus; wine by the bottle; gift-shop snack foods and beverages.
Scroll down to the Dining section for restaurant/menu details.
All-Inclusive activities and equipment
Water sports
Land sports
All-Inclusive entertainment/nightlife Live music nightly for dancing
Not included
Airport taxes may or may not be included.
Awards and Affiliations
A Green / Sustainable Property - Third Party Certified
This property participates in Green Globe Certification, a third-party certification program that has been independently certified. Third-party certification measures the property's impact on one or more of the following: environment, community, cultural-heritage, the local economy. An objective assessment of a company's sustainable tourism practices has been performed at this property by an auditor who is independent of the third-party certification program.
Accessibility Options
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the “Special or Accessibility Requests” section of “Trip Preferences” when you book your hotel.
Property Amenities
The majority of amenities and gratuities at this Antigua resort are included in the room rate; guests of Galley Bay Resort & Spa All Inclusive will not be charged extra for the majority of amenities (scroll up to the All-Inclusive Details section for more information).
The resort's tranquil ambience begins just inside the entrance at an open-air reception building with bleached-wood ceilings. Adjacent looms a 19th-century, stone-tower sugar mill ringed by a cactus garden. Golf-cart shuttles take guests to their rooms via a path spanning the bird-sanctuary lagoon.
A beauty salon offers massage, facials, and hair and nail care. An open-air library includes an air-conditioned room containing two computers with complimentary wireless high-speed Internet access. An air-conditioned fitness center with views of the resort's bird-sanctuary lagoon offers cardio machines, a weight-training machine, and free weights. A shop sells resortwear, beachwear, Galley Bay logo items, gifts, and sundries.
Ground transportation:
Shuttle vans and private cars of varying prices are available. They can be reserved during the process of booking a reservation for this hotel, via this Web site, and added to the total trip cost.
Rooms
The majority of amenities and gratuities at this Antigua resort are included in the room rate; guests of Galley Bay Resort & Spa All Inclusive will not be charged extra for the majority of amenities (scroll up to the All-Inclusive Details section for more information).
Galley Bay Resort & Spa All Inclusive offers 98 guestrooms and cottages situated between a bird-sanctuary lagoon and the Caribbean Sea. Beachfront rooms are in one-story West Indian-style buildings with corrugated red-steel roofs. Sea-view stone terraces with chairs and cocktail tables provide step-down access to the beach.
Arrayed near the lagoon, cottages inspired by Paul Gauguin's vision of Tahiti consist of bedrooms and bathrooms in separate whitewashed huts with conical wood-singled roofs. Thatched breezeways connect huts. Small private gardens/sundecks with lounge chairs feature plunge pools.
Rooms and cottages include terra-cotta-tile floors and rattan furniture. Both offer air conditioning as well as ceiling fans that combine with louvered walls to provide a cooling option.
Room Amenities
Dining
The majority of meals and beverages, plus all gratuities, at the following restaurants and bars are included in the room rate for this resort (scroll up to the All-Inclusive Details section for more information).
Sea Grape - Open-air restaurant with peaked wood ceiling facing boardwalk above beach. Á la carte breakfast, lunch, dinner. Dinner dress code: Long pants, collared shirts for men, except Thursday night for the barbecue buffet.
Sample dinner menu for Sea Grape
Note: A different menu is offered for each dinner. The following menu is for illustrative purposes only.
Soup:
Appetizers:
Salads:
Main courses:
Desserts:
Gauguin - Casual, open-air spot isolated on beach. Private tables on terra-cotta-tile floors under individual thatch roofs. Á la carte lunch of salads, sandwiches, light fare. Á la carte dinner. Reservations required. Dinner dress code: long pants, collared shirts for men.
Sample menu for Gauguin
Soup:
Appetizers:
Salads:
Main courses:
Desserts:
Lounge Bar - Open-air seating on thickly cushioned dark-bamboo chairs under ceiling fans next to boardwalk above beach. Afternoon tea. Pre-dinner appetizers. Bar service from late morning to late night. Live music for dancing nightly.
Teepee Bar - Open-air beachfront bar/lounge in conical thatch structure. Open late morning to late night.
Entertainment
Steel pan, reggae, and island adaptations of classic popular music is performed by local musicians nightly.
Recreation
The majority of recreational facilities described below are included in the room rate for this resort (scroll up to the All-Inclusive details section for more information).
Galley Bay Resort & Spa All Inclusive extends along an 800-m (875-yd) beach washed by the turquoise Caribbean Sea, which remains calm in most weather. For freshwater swimming there's a 21.25-m (70-ft) freeform pool styled like a mountain pool, with granite-like lining, rocks along edges, and a large multi-level rock waterfall at pool's head. An adjacent sundeck is furnished with thatched shades.
The resort supplies snorkeling gear, small sailboats, windsurfers, and kayaks. Motorboating, ecotours, parasailing, and surfing can be found nearby. Fat-tired bicycles suitable for riding on the beach are also furnished. Ping-Pong under a thatch roof exemplifies the resort's open-air ambience. Three times weekly a pro provides a tennis clinic on an unlighted artificial-grass court and offers private lessons for surcharges. An 800-m (875-yd) jogging path circles a lagoon maintained as a bird and waterfowl sanctuary within the resort's 40 acres.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.
Spa
Indulge Spa is centrally located, adjacent to the calming waters of the hotel's lagoon and surrounding bird sanctuary. The spacious, multi-level spa features three massage areas, two of which are rustic, open-air treatment "pods". Each pod overlooks the bird sanctuary and is designed to accommodate two massage tables, for romantic his-and-hers treatments, as well as a full range of facials, skincare, and therapeutic massage treatments featuring the full line of world-class Pevonia Botanica skincare products.
The preferred airport for Galley Bay Resort & Spa All Inclusive is St. John's (ANU-V.C. Bird Intl.) - 10.9 km / 6.8 mi.
Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property's location to the point of interest or airport and may not reflect actual travel distance.
Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometre.
