Barbados Hotels

Here are three suggestions for reasons to base your visit to Barbados

Barbados beaches

Youll be starting in the capital Bridgetown - see the colourful fishing boats and yachts. See the statue of Nelson in Heroes Square, shop in fine boutiques and department stores and generally enjoy the "Little England" of the Caribbean. The Barbadian beaches offer a paradise -each of the Barbadian diverse coasts gives a different environment. The West Coast has the exclusive resorts with clear white sand and crystal clear water - just right for swimming and water sports. The beaches here include Batts Rock and Paynes Bay in St James, Gibbs Beach in St Peter and Carlisle Bay just south of Bridgetown itself. The south coast has Silver Sands beach, a windsurfers favourite as well as Dover and Needhams point. But the Atlantic East coast is not for swimming - rugged waves and fine beaches and spectacular rock formations, its most popular for experienced surfers and sunbathers - especially the world famous Bathsheba.

Weddings and Honeymoons

Barbados is a favourite places for weddings - and especially now that there are no advance notice requirements to marry on the island, you could now marry on the day of your arrival - with no waiting period. There are so many choices of places to be married, perhaps a favourite resort, by the water, at a plantation estate, or deep underground in Harrisons cave? Have as memorable and romantic wedding as your imagination will take you! If you want to get married at home, then an island honeymoon in Barbados is as romantic as it can get - to fit your purse from inns, guesthouses or luxury hotels - but the scenery and beaches are as beautiful whatever you pay!

Sporty activity holidays

With Cricket as the national sport, why not enjoy an international match during the season at the Kensington Oval - or watch horse racing or polo at the Barbados Turf Club. More active? There are some fabulous golf courses and you can play year-round, as you can with tennis. Or try hiking and walking to see the island flora and fauna and historic places. The main sports, of course, must be the watersports on the beautiful coasts - scuba, snorkelling and skin diving on the coral reefs and wrecks, go sailing in a chartered yacht or go waterskiing or Parasailing.

Things to do in Barbados

5 Ideas for places to visit

1. Andromeda Botanic Gardens - gardens set on a seaside Atlantic cliff - wonderful flowers.
2. Harrisons Cave - Limestone caverns with waterfall and lagoon
3. Sunbury Plantation House and Museum - 1660s refurbished house plus plantation-era relics
4. Barbados Wildlife Reserve - See the Barbados Green monkey and otters, mongooses, porcupines and more if youre lucky in this mahogany forest
5. Welchmann Hall Gully - Cliff-flanked gully with 200 species of exotic flora - just as would have been seen by original settlers.