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Atlantis Submarine Tours
This submarine tour transports passengers to coral reefs and shipwrecks 150 feet below the surface.
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Barbados Turf Club
Horse races—another equestrian remnant from colonial times—are held Saturdays at the Garrison Savannah, a track located about two miles outside Bridgetown. The most prestigious of them all, the Sandy Lane Gold Cup, attracts jockeys and socialites from all over North...
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Beaches
Barbados’s east and west coasts offer two entirely different beach experiences. On the west coast, where most of the high-end hotels are located, you’ll find the calm turquoise waters of the Caribbean. The less crowded Atlantic coast, on the east,...
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Crop Over Festival
What began as a small celebration to mark the end of the sugarcane season (hence the name) is today a long-running (May–August) carnival of calypso competitions, arts and crafts fairs and just all-around revelry.Throngs of Barbadians with light sticks and...
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Globe Drive-In
While many parts of Barbados have an old-school British vibe, Christ Church’s drive-in theater offers an ode to 1950s America (though movies are of the contemporary blockbuster variety). Shows run nightly at 6:30 and 9:00 P.M., and the selection changes...
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Golf
A trio of top-notch course designers have, in the past decade, transformed Barbados into one of the Caribbean’s premier golfing destinations. Robert Trent Jones Jr. completed the Royal Westmoreland’s super-challenging eighteen-hole course in 1995; in 2001, Tom Fazio designed two of Sandy Lane’s three...
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Harrison’s Cave
A natural limestone cavern in St. Thomas, and Barbados’s most popular tourist attraction, Harrison's Cave resembles a Disney amusement park ride. Visitors ride in an electric tram car, past stalactites and bubbly pools as water dripping from the roof echoes...
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Historical Homes
Well-preserved colonial-era mansions and estates around the island are open to the public. St. Nicholas Abbey (Cherry Tree Hill, St. Peter; 246-422-8725; www.st.nicholasabbey.com), a manor house built in 1650 that offers rum tastings, and Drax Hall (St. George), a 17th-century estate, are some of...
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Holders Season
With weekly polo matches, horse races and National Trust cocktail parties, winter months in Barbados provide plenty of opportunities to schmooze and hobnob. The biggest event on the social calendar is Holders Season, an annual, two-week-long performing-arts festival typically held in late February/early...
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Nidhe Israel Synagogue Museum
If you decide to visit Bridgetown, the Nidhe Israel Synagogue and Museum is an interesting and rather unexpected stop. Built in 1654 mostly by Sephardic Jews from Brazil (who were fleeing the recently imported Spanish Inquisition), the synagogue is thought...
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Nightlife
St. Lawrence Gap, on the south coast, is party central, but the northern section of Holetown (known locally as First and Second Street) has a number of spots for more sophisticated night owls. These include Lexy Piano Bar (Second Street; 246-432-5399; www.lexypianobar.com),...
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Oistins Fish Fry
Every Friday night locals flock to Oistins, a little town on the south coast, to enjoy fried fish and jam to reggae and calypso. Just fifteen minutes west of Grantley Adams International Airport, the fish fry features stalls selling fish...
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Polo
Though polo is the sport of kings, ticket prices in Barbados are altogether democratic, and throughout the season you’ll see a lot of local enthusiasts mixing with the big-hatted blue bloods. Matches, many of them international, are held January through...
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Spas
Cobblers Cove has a quaint, cozy little spa, and the Royal Westmoreland opened one on Mullins Beach, but the Coral Reef Club and Sandy Lane take center stage here. Sandy Lane's 47,000 square foot spa facility has multiple treatment suites—each either a private pool or...
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Surfing
Native Bajan Zed Layson, who traveled all over the world competing against wave wunderkinds like Taylor Knox and Kelly Slater (who returns to the island every year to surf the Soup Bowl), has come back to Barbados to teach. Single lessons...
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Water Sports
For water-sports enthusiasts, there’s surfing on the east coast, water-skiing and snorkeling on the west coast and windsurfing in the south. Most hotels and villa rental companies work with a handful of instructors and catamaran companies. Some of the latter...
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