Antigua offers a lot of great sailing, good anchorages, culture and decent restaurants. The island is safe to visit and has a definite x-British atmosphere (hence the decent restaurant comment). You can easily spend a week to a month or more sailing around the island, anchoring in different places every day. English Harbour is a spectacular place to visit as well as the jump up at Shirley Heights to party. North Sound on Antigua offers a true get-away from it all place to hang out if you like doing that.

Antigua has essentially zero damage from the hurricanes last season. Poor Barbuda, Antigua's sister island, suffered almost total destruction so you might want to wait to visit there until a later visit.

I highly recommend Antigua to sailors looking for a change of sailing destinations. We have sailed in Antigua annually for 7 seasons and have yet to run out of places to visit. Chris Doyle's sailing guide to the Leeward Islands covers this excellent sailing area.

The BVI's are obviously a great sailing destination and will recover in a few years from the destruction. If you want to experience a new place to sail, Antigua would be well worth looking at. Good luck!