In the region around Barbados, there are two specific style vacations available, both sides. Stay on the west side of the island and pay handsomely for your pampered or airlifted to neighboring Grenadines, to pay a fortune to feel simple, natural, eco-friendly and low…
When I first visited Barbados fifteen years or so ago, I expected to see land next to zacharofyteies polo and people drinking tea, knowing that the island had rule over the English for 341 years (it gained independence in 1966). The true picture, however, was more ingrained: on the beaches, selling souvenirs and street vendors involved kotsidakia hair, tourists on a catamaran drink rum and were tons of calypso, local harpoons flirt with blonde tourists. Those in the south, in St Laurence Gap or simply the Gap, the hot spot on the island that everyone should visit at least once in their life. The nearby hotels are the right base for those who prefer to be close to the nightlife.
The Casuarina, the Allamanda, the Bougainvilla and Accra Beach, in addition to incredible beaches, have a distinctive local color that is not West Coast opulence and price. On Gap’s main strip, reggae music blasts from almost every doorway and crowds of young people drink happy hour daisies at Café Sol, while others emerge from bars dressed in shorts and T-shirts, sipping Mount Gay rum from the bottle. Every Thursday we all meet at the Ship Inn, where the well-known reggae band For the People plays live, while on Fridays the place is the Boatyard, a colorful bar in Bridgetown, the capital.
Where to stay: What if you don’t have a vacation in the Caribbean? No problem. House hotel in a very graphic Tamarind Cove allows you to own the house, without the house! The boutique hotel ntizainato and raises the bar of the services it offers by assigning each visitor an “ambassador”, to satisfy all their whims. For dining, the hotel has the honor of belonging to the famous Daphne’s (yes, the famous London), the most distinctive and sexy restaurant on the island, with dim lights, Indonesian tick furniture and anemizoun metaxotes curtains.