Jonny Talks with Rod Hinds from Visit Antigua Barbuda

Antigua’s shoreline is washed almost exclusively by the Caribbean Sea and is hugged by 95 miles of superb coastline. Her sister Barbuda, is surrounded by protective reefs and features a large lagoon and Frigate Bird sanctuary. The islands are best known for their friendly and welcoming people, pink and white-sandy beaches, crystal clear waters and the most satisfying and enjoyable climate in the world. https://www.visitantiguabarbuda.com/

Episode Transcript

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Oh, I got a welcome in. This is the Go Go Travel Show
Podcast. I'm your host, Johnnyheart Well. We are podcasting live from
the Pittsburgh Travel Showcase. Rod hides, Absolutely, you're gonna have to act.
Bought her up to that microphone there, come on, come on,
I'm on. We're talking to theCaribbean. Here, we're talking to Caribbean.

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We're talking Antigua and Barbuda, Barbudaand you know Antika. You know,
I've heard so many good things.A lot about my coworkers have been
there. They say it's it's offthe charts. It is. Indeed,
as a matter of fact, thelast two years in a row, we've
had our best years ever. Lastyear was absolutely amazing. Do I get
there? Rod Well, no,you we'd love to have you come down.

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We'd love to have iHeart Radio there. Well, it'd be a pleasure.
Well, thank you for me.Just imagine broadcasting life from one of
our three hundred and sixty six beaches. I will I could do that with
Listen, Rubby, Robbie, Johnny'sTommy makes Johnny a happy boy? Oh
my god. Yeah, we lovethat. Yeah, it's a beautiful destination.

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We're doing really well. One ofthe key selling points is that is
a very safe destination. We're verysafe. You know. We're known for
our beaches, of course. Okay, well tell me about the beach.
We have three hundred and sixty sixbeaches. But describe those what what color
those beaches? White sand, beautiful, gorgeous, polery white sand. And
in our sister island of Barbuda,which is like a forty five minute ferry

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right away, because there's a twinisland, there's an Antigua and Barbuda,
the sand is pink. Oh really, sand, I've heard about this.
It's gorgeous. And Robert de Niroyou familiar, Robert DeNiro. Robert de
Niro just opened up his world classNobu restaurant right on the beach. Oh
really, Barbuda, This it's beautiful, It's gorgeous. I want to do

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I want to be Bobby de Niroin another life, right, yeah,
especially down there. So tell usabout the resorts and the vacation hot spot
where we have lovely resource. Wehave resource really for everyone, whether it's
a honeymoon, whether it's a destination, wedding, or family. Family.
We have lots of family, alot of lot of resources are all inclusive

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resorts idea for families, and mostof them are idea for adults. Ham
A Cove, for example, it'sa brand new resort that's opened up forty
one. Sweets East Sweet has hisown private plunge Pool's a Michelin chef twenty
four room service, you know,and our resources are very intimate. They're
not sort of like high rise sevenhundred room properties. They're all within the

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range of as I mentioned, HammaCove has forty one, but our largest
property will be Sandals. Oh yeah, we've got a Royalton there as well.
The Royalton Chic is a new onethat's coming on board. So we
have a variety of product, wonderfulproduct. All right, So you have
all these wonderful resorts, but thepart of me goes, I hope it
doesn't get too big and ruined thecharm. We don't want that. Now,

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that's not going to happen. Wehave a couple of new properties coming
on but they're all high end kindof like you know, the Waldorf Astoria
is looking to come into Antiga,et cetera. But it's never going to
be It's never going to be likea sort of like a cancoon or that
kind of a place. It's gone. It's gonna be very intimate, very
upscale, very high end, althoughwe do have resorts that are ideal for

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mid income as well, mid youknow, mid range. Okay, we
have a lot of fight star properties, four star properties, et cetera.
Talk to me, Talk to meabout the food. Oh, the food
is excellent. The food in Antiguais you're making me hungry now. Actually,
we have fabulous dinding experiences. Asa matter of fact, the destination
itself is known for its culinary choices. We have wonderful restaurants across the island.

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Most of our properties, of course, are all in cruisers, so
you have you have excellent food onproperty. But if you want to go
off property and enjoy some of ourlocal resta, what is your local cuisine?
What are some of the special thesethat you peppa pot, there's a
there's a there's a Have you everhad that? Yeah? P oh my
god, that is that's our nationaldish. You we have We have can

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conk mean yeah, I mean Ilove conk myself. I mean I am
actually allergic to shellfish conk. Okay, I can't eat love and all conferences
or conk soup. Okay, ohno, we have we have, we
have our or our done. Theexperiences are fabulous, all right, both
in the resort and off the resort. All right, So somebody wants more

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information, give us the website.Well, uh, it's right there on
my business card. You can seeit is Antique and Barbida visit visit Barbi
dot com dot com. What wewould encourage you to do also is go
to your travel agent. Here weare at a travel travel showcase which is
being put together with by Triple A. So you can visit your local travel

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agent and they will be able toput the entire package together for you.
All right, Well, I hopeI get down to I hope and well,
well, oh shut you and bringa group with you, a hoop
A group, A group. Iwas like, what we we're talking about?
I know you could have a Ibring out a lot of destinations.
I didn't a group and have ahoop. Well, I hope to have

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maybe a rum drink with Rod.Can we do that? It'd be a
pleasure, Rod. Thanks late talkingto you. Thank you,