"Our Guide: Making the Most of 10 Days in Paradise"

Our trip to Barbados was in November 2021, as soon as we could fly post covid! We settled on Barbados as always wanted to visit the Caribbean and needed a hot, relaxing beach break after the pandemic.

It was a joy when the plane doors opened and got our first breath of that Caribbean air!

Once out of the airport with no fuss we picked up our hire car and headed to our hotel. The Colony Club, part of the Marriott Group, is located in St. James and is a beautiful colonial resort. With 96 rooms, restaurant, bar, a beautiful beach and a welcome drink whilst we checked in, we couldn’t ask for more!

Colony Club

We checked into our Pool Garden View room, with a king sized bed that felt like sleeping on a pillow. Also there was a mini bar, coffee station, well equipped bathroom and a table and chairs to sit out and enjoy your morning coffee or evening cocktail.

We hired a car as Barbados is a great island to drive yourself around. Everything was easy to find and they drive the same side of the road as we do in the UK.

We had been researching things to do in Barbados for most of the covid lockdown so had a good idea of what we wanted to do. Below are a few highlights, however, as this was so soon after covid restrictions had eased, sadly some things were still either temporarily closed or permanently.

Highest point of the island! Being just a 15 minute drive and a 5 minute walk from our resort I think we expected something a bit more. But the views spoke for themselves. Interestingly. There was also a seal/plate from when the island was mapped out by the Inter American Geodetic Survey (https://www.nga.mil/history/Mapping_the_Americas_Inter_American_Geodetic_Surve.html)

Queens Park is where you’ll find largest and oldest Baobab tree in Barbados. The park itself is nice to walk around and you can’t miss the tree because it is huge! Not just tall, but how wide it is.

For us this was a beach holiday so we didn’t plan on doing an awful lot. Colony Club had water activities that you could do for free such as snorkelling, tube rides, paddle boarding, as well as some that you could do with a fee (jet skiing). We also wanted to visit the Mount Gay rum distillery, but unfortunately this was still closed due to covid restrictions which was a shame as matt was looking forward to visiting the