Luxury bepoke holidays to Tamarind, Barbados
Facts in brief
Location West side of island
Annual opening All year
Closest airport Grantley Adams International Airport
Distance from airport The hotel is about 25-minutes' drive from the airport
Hotel facilities and services
3 Freshwater Swimming Pools, Pool Ambassadors, 2 Restaurants, Watersports, Waterskiing and Snorkelling Lessons, Kids' Club, Teen Lounge, Room Service, Laundry Service, Safety deposit boxes in the rooms and at reception, 24-hour Fitness Centre, Spa, Beauty Salon, Gift Shop, Baby-sitting, Complimentary WiFi. Island Excursions can be arranged. Wedding and honeymoon packages for pre-booking only. There is wheelchair access to ground floor rooms.
Complimentary
Caribbean cocktail on arrival, Water taxi to certain hotels on the west coast, Water Sports including Kayaks, Boogie Boards, Dinghy, Sailing, Hobie Cats, Waterskiing, Snorkelling, Pool Ambassadors, Fitness Centre, Teen Lounge and Kids' Club.
Complimentary watersports
Kayaks, Boogie Boards, Dinghy, Sailing, Hobie Cats, Waterskiing, Banana Boat Rides and Snorkelling.
Chargeable watersports
Waterskiing and Snorkelling lessons are also available.
Land sports
24-hour fitness centre and complimentary Pilates, Yoga and aqua aerobics classes. Tennis courts can be accessed at Tamarind's sister properties nearby. Older children and teenagers can participate in foosball, ping pong, air hockey and pool at Club Tamarind teen lounge.
Out and about nearby
Historic Holetown is about 5 minutes away by car and boasts a luxury mall, restaurants and boutiques. Golf is available at nearby Royal Westmoreland and Sandy Lane. Tennis courts are also accessible at Tamarind's nearby sister properties. Nearby cultural highlights are Kensington Oval cricket stadium and George Washington House.
Sports nearby
Golf and tennis are available at Tamarind's sister properties.
It was an excellent holiday - due to excellent planning on your side. Super efficient, very professional.Mrs F, Holiday to Norway, Oct 2023
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Pool or Garden view double or twin room for 7 nights
From about
£1,510 low season
£2,550 high season
Holiday Code CE152
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bepoke holidays to Tamarind, Barbados
Room descriptions
Tamarind has 104 rooms and suites, all of which have private bathroom, air conditioning, safe, fridge, hairdryer, telephone, cable TV, iPod docking station.
It was an excellent holiday - due to excellent planning on your side. Super efficient, very professional.Mrs F, Holiday to Norway, Oct 2023
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Pool or Garden view double or twin room for 7 nights
From about
£1,510 low season
£2,550 high season
Holiday Code CE152
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bepoke holidays to Tamarind, Barbados
The journey and how you get there
For a holiday to Tamarind in Barbados, Expressions Holidays includes flights from London to Barbados with British Airways or Virgin Atlantic. The flying time is about 8 hours and 30 minutes. Tamarind is a 40-minute drive from the airport and Expressions Holidays will organise return private car transfers.
Additional information
Minimum stays: Minimum stay of 7 nights from 19 December to 4 January. 5 nights from 5 January to 18 December 2019. 7 night minimum stay from 22 December to 2 January 2020.
Children: The first child up to age 12 is free of charge all year round when sharing a room with an adult. All children are free of charge when sharing a room with an adult between 1 June and 22 October 2019. Interconnecting suites for families are recommended. Children under the age of 16 must occupy a room with a parent or guardian. Children ages 4-12 can keep busy at Tamarind's Flying Fish Kid's Club, which offers arts and crafts, baking and fun cultural activities. In-room cots and seasonal Creche services are provided for families with infants. For older children and teenagers, Club Tamarind offers activities such as computer games, ping pong, pool and discos. Babysitting is also available for a fee.
Special offers
Call to make your booking and save an extra £50 per adult Call us instead of emailing us when you are thinking of booking a holiday and save an extra £50 per adult (in addition to any special offers that might be available). We want to talk to you to discuss your requirements and a phone call is usually the best way for you to define what you want enabling us to respond more accurately. We want to talk to you and you save an extra £50 per adult.
Caribbean special offers update All current special offers for Caribbean hotels will be built into the price at the point of enquiry. That way the most up-to-date offers will be applied to your holiday price.
It was an excellent holiday - due to excellent planning on your side. Super efficient, very professional.Mrs F, Holiday to Norway, Oct 2023
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Pool or Garden view double or twin room for 7 nights
From about
£1,510 low season
£2,550 high season
Holiday Code CE152
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bepoke holidays to Tamarind, Barbados
About Barbados
An Expressions tailor-made holiday to Barbados is highly recommended as a destination for a first-time visit to the Caribbean, for those looking for excellent standards of accommodation, or if you want a tropical beach holiday with plenty of sightseeing activities and places to visit around the island. Perched in the sea to the east of the Windward Islands, Barbados is an immensely satisfying luxury holiday destination. The best hotels and resorts in Barbados are mainly found along the west coast, including The Sandpiper, a hotel offering a relaxing environment with a wide range of activities available; and The Coral Reef Club, an elegant and refined hotel with an old-world colonial feel amid beautiful gardens. Without the mountainous tropical rain forests of the Windward Islands, Barbados has natural attractions of its own: acres of rolling green sugar cane fields, exotic trees and shrubs such as banyan, mahogany and flamboyant poinsettia, a breath-taking coastline of soft sandy beaches lapped by the calm turquoise waters of the Caribbean on the west and expanses of wild surf crashing onto the wide sandy beaches of the Atlantic east coast. As you drive across Barbados you glimpse fine colonial-style plantation houses and come across villages brightly painted in classic Caribbean colours, surrounded by gardens of frangipani and hibiscus.
Highlights of Barbados
Local cuisine including Fish dishes such as flying fish, dolphin fish and kingfish. Banks beer and Mountgay rum. Barbados has numerous restaurants of a very high quality, many of them along the west coast, including the Cliff and Carambola. Mullins beach bar south of Speightstown. Bathsheba and the east coast with its miles of sandy beaches and ocean surf. Barclays Park beach and beach bar on the east coast north of Bathsheba. The brilliance of the orange-red flamboyant trees in summer and the dark red of the poinsettias in winter. Fruit stalls for pineapples, coconuts and bananas by the road side. Local cricket matches on pitches surrounded by palm tree-clad hills. Deep sided lanes between the sugar cane fields with glimpses of gracious plantation houses here and there. Wooden houses of shocking pinks, mauves, blues and yellows. ‘British’ post boxes, road signs and bus stops. Plenty of sports available to play and watch; golf, horseracing, cricket, riding, polo, walking, tennis. Early in the morning it`s as if the whole nation is out jogging. Cropover festival in August.
Cultural highlights of Barbados
For short distances or dining out, use a taxi. It’s well worth hiring a car for most or at least part of your stay to have flexibility and independence. The quality of the roads is fine, bar a few potholes in the country and confusing road signs (be prepared to get lost, keep your petrol tank topped up and just keep asking the way). Barbados is very well developed for places of interest and well-preserved houses, plantations, mills, gardens and parks. For architectural interest visit St Nicholas Abbey, Drax Hall and Francia. For exotic gardens visit Andromeda and the Flower Forest. If you want to get away slightly from the main tourist areas travel into Scotland north of Speightstown. A drive across the interior provides beautiful scenery, with valleys and gullies and ridges, acres of sugar cane fields and the grey-green leaves of palm trees rustling in the breeze.
Facts in brief
Capital BridgetownAirport Grantley Adams International Airport
Size 166 sq. miles
Population 285,000
