At a Glance
Popular with older couples and English visitors, Cobblers Cove Hotel feels like an English country estate, complete with quaintness and charm.
Review
Cobblers Cove's pink-washed main building (dubbed the “Pink House”) was built in 1942 as a private mansion in the castle-like style of so many large Bajan villas. Its two upper turrets house the hotel’s largest and most luxurious suites, the Camelot and the Colleton, with canopied beds and marble floors. The rest of the property’s forty rooms are located in two-story cottages (with two suites per floor) that surround a large cluster of tropical gardens. All accommodations, which are elegant but modest, have sitting rooms with foldout sofa beds and terraces with gingerbread-house railings; most open into the gardens, though the ones in the back have views of the beach. Rooms, with their understated wicker furniture and fully stocked bookshelves, are meant to evoke a homey atmosphere, and most of the suites on each floor can interconnect for families and large groups.
The hotel is somewhat secluded, located just north of the main hotel drag in St. James, and the vibe here is extremely low-key but refined. You can expect lots of little British touches and customs like daily afternoon tea. Tennis and some water sports are complimentary. Children under twelve are not permitted from early January until late March and the hotel closes from late August through early October.
Who Should Stay
Understated guests who like to keep their distance from the scene found further south on the west coast. See-and-be-seen types will be happier at Sandy Lane.
Written by Amelia Osborne Scott