Antigua and Barbuda / Local Transport

Antigua has an extensive bus network that runs along prescribed routes. Buses reach all the outlying villages around the island, eventually, and it is possible to use it to get to the south-east, English Harbour, but not to the northern area around Dickenson Bay or to the airport.

There are two main bus terminals in St John’s. The East Bus Station, up close to the cricket ground (to the east of the downtown area), serves the eastern side of the island. The West Bus Station, which you will find next to the main market in the south of St John’s, serves western areas and the South (including English Harbour).

Buses run on weekdays and Saturdays from early morning until around 6pm, after which there are far fewer services (lasting a little later on Saturdays). On Sundays there are very few buses, if any at all. The buses in Antigua do not run to a timed schedule. Rather they leave when they are full, or according to the bus driver’s own mystical schedule. Out in the country you should stand at a bus stop (drivers are not supposed to stop on the open road) and wave. They will stop and let you in if there is room (and sometimes if there isn’t). If you want to be let down, then shout.