Luxury bespoke hotel holidays to Blue Monkey Hotel & Beach Club, Barbados
Facts in brief
Official star rating 5
Location Steps from Paynes Bay Beach, in the St. James Parish of the Platinum Coast.
Annual opening Opening in 2026
Closest airport Grantley Adams International Airport, Bridgetown
Distance from airport 35 minutes by car
Hotel facilities and services
Blue Monkey Beach Club on Paynes Bay Beach, rooftop lounge, swimming pool and deck, Amara Restaurant, the Blue Bar, 24hr room service, spa, 24hr fitness centre, boutique shop, airport VIP fast-track on arrival, free airport transfers, laundry and dry cleaning, turndown service, and complimentary minibars.
Complimentary
Wi-Fi
Out and about nearby
The historic settlement of Holetown sits just 8 minutes away, where British colonists first landed in 1625, now home to the Limegrove Lifestyle Centre with luxury boutiques, including Louis Vuitton, Burberry, and Ralph Lauren, alongside the charming Chattel Village, offering local crafts and art. St. James Parish Church, dating back to 1660, and the Holetown Monument commemorate the island’s colonial heritage, whilst the First and Second Streets area provides evening entertainment with restaurants and live music. Sandy Lane Hotel’s three championship golf courses lie 10 minutes’ walk from the hotel, including the exclusive Tom Fazio-designed Green Monkey course. Folkestone Marine Park in Holetown offers snorkelling opportunities and educational exhibits about Caribbean marine life. Speightstown, known as “Little Bristol,” for its historic trading connections, is 20 minutes north and features the interactive Arlington House Museum, colonial architecture along Queen Street, and the quieter beaches of Mullins and Heywoods.
Sports nearby
Sandy Lane golf courses, snorkelling, water sports, and tennis.
As always, E provides excellent help and service.Dr D, April 2025
From about
Holiday Code EXH46701
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke hotel holidays to Blue Monkey Hotel & Beach Club, Barbados
Blue Monkey Hotel & Beach Club is a five-star boutique property set in lush tropical gardens on Paynes Bay Beach, where the calm Caribbean waters of Barbados’ Platinum Coast meet white sand shores. This intimate hotel, affiliated with the Leading Hotels of the World group, represents a complete renovation of the former Tropical Escape Hotel, now combining the latest in luxury design with traditional Caribbean character. The property’s location on the prestigious west coast places guests mere steps from one the island’s finest swimming beaches, with the colourful town of Holetown just minutes away. The hotel’s 28 suites showcase custom Italian furnishings by Pianca, Puntotre, and Roberti Rattan, alongside fine Italian linens and amenities from Smeg and Nespresso. Each suite has its own separate living area, and a private bathroom with double vanities. Higher room categories have private plunge pools, dressing rooms, and secondary bedrooms. Dining at Blue Monkey centres on the Amara Restaurant, where Lebanese cuisine receives playful reinterpretation in colourful, quirky, and atmospheric surroundings. The Blue Bar specialises in fine spirits and cocktails, with particular attention to Barbados’ renowned rum heritage. The rooftop lounge provides sweeping sunset views over the bay, establishing itself as a serene place for evening drinks. Most distinctive is the Blue Monkey Beach Club, set directly on Paynes Bay Beach exclusively for hotel guests, offering an unmatched west coast dining and drinks experience with toes in the sand. Sea turtle encounters are often possible on Paynes Bay Beach, with the shallow reefs ideal for snorkelling, which adds to the natural appeal of this protected stretch of coastline. The hotel’s swimming pool has an exclusive deck, whilst the spa, fitness facilities, and room service ensure guests’ every comfort is addressed. The inclusion of luxury airport transfers and VIP fast-track service on arrival reflects the Blue Monkey’s commitment to seamless, considered hospitality from the moment guests touch down on the island.
As always, E provides excellent help and service.Dr D, April 2025
From about
Holiday Code EXH46701
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke hotel holidays to Blue Monkey Hotel & Beach Club, Barbados
The journey and how you get there
For a holiday to Blue Monkey Hotel, you can fly to Grantley Adams International Airport, where complimentary luxury airport transfers and VIP fast-track service are included with every stay. The scenic 40-minute drive to the Platinum Coast brings you directly to the hotel’s tropical gardens and beachfront setting. A hire car is useful for exploring Barbados’ attractions, rum distilleries, and beaches beyond the west coast. The hotel’s position near Holetown and provision of house car service means many guests choose to rely on the hotel’s transport offerings and local taxis for excursions.
Additional information
Children: The Blue Monkey Hotel welcomes families, with multi-bedroom suites providing suitable accommodation for parents and children.
As always, E provides excellent help and service.Dr D, April 2025
From about
Holiday Code EXH46701
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke hotel holidays to Blue Monkey Hotel & Beach Club, 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
