A Private Island To Note

Jumby Bay, just off Antigua, is all set to be the best private island in the world. That sounds a pretty tall order, but face the facts.

It's seven minutes’ super boat transfer, full cocktail service aboard, from the mainland. There you have it, a 300-acre island with 50 private residences owned by the investors in the island (one of these residences is currently for sale for $35 million). Your own villa, part of the 50-room ‘hotel’, is what you want in nature. There's a private pool for each villa, the beaches are divine, and the enormous area, behind and  around, includes a working farm with lots of four-legged animals. There's a great restaurant, heavy on sashimi and other seafood. You can also go to Jumby's own baby island, a kind of Tasmania to Australia. This little island restaurant hosts a branch of The Hut, a 130-seater that is heaving with people from nearby Caribbean islands who know that this is where the successful hang out. You think you might be in Palm Beach, where The Hut first opened in 1930, but no, you're here on Jumby Bay, which the on-site boss, Frédéric Vidal, is confident will be recognised as the best private island. In the whole wide world.

Written by Mary Gostelow

Internationally renowned luxury travel & lifestyle influencer