Advantages: Lots to spend your money on. Disadvantages: Very busy and crowded
BridgetownBarbados, well what can I say. I have been to Barbados 8 times and am so enamoured by the Island that I have bought land out there and brought home a stray dog from there too! The pace is very slow and laid back which takes some getting used to at first. We regularly go to Bridgetown, you can get a taxi, or just take the cheap bus, it only costs about one and half dollars, but it is not for the faint hearted. If you are staying at an all inclusive hotel they usually provide a free shuttle to Bridgetown so you can go and spend all your money.
We got married at Turtle Beach Hotel, it was fabulous, there are some great wedding packages out there. I got my engagement ring and wedding ring and eternity ring from Bridgetown, I think the shop was called The Royal, very nice and very posh, it is 14 Karat gold as opposed to ...
can make up your own mind, and support my review.
Maybe if most of the staff were more helpful and the hotel made more of an effort on presentation and maintenance it could actually be quite a nice hotel in a lovely location.
I would however take a few moments to look up the HiltonBarbados which is just down the road and with completely different standards and service or maybe somewhere else that has been reviewed?
Website Address: http://www.grandbarbados.com
Address:
Grand Barbados Resort
PO Box 639
Aquatic Gap, St. Michael
Bridgetown, Barbados
West Indies
Phone: +246 426-4000 ...
Advantages: duty free shopping, laid back way of life, friendly people Disadvantages: I am not there now!
This is the second part of my review about Barbados. So, if you would like to know where Barbados is located, flying time or even how I came to be fully clothed in a jacuzzi at midnight, please read the first part which is entitled “Heat, humidity…. and a hurricane called Lili”.
Bridgetown, situated on the southwest coast of the island, is the capital city of Barbados. There are lots of reminders of the island’s former links to Britain with names like Liverpool Street, Wellington Road, Waterloo Alley and there is a statue of Lord Nelson which is situated near the harbour, not too far from Chamberlain Bridge. I liked the colonial style architecture of some of it’s older buildings.
Many of the hotels offer shuttle services into Bridgetown. Most public transport emanates from the capital ...
