Luxury bespoke hotel holidays to Little Good Harbour, Barbados
Facts in brief
Official star rating 4
Location On the northwest coast near Speightstown, approximately 3 km from the town centre.
Annual opening All year
Closest airport Grantley Adams International Airport, Bridgetown
Distance from airport 50 minutes by car
Hotel facilities and services
Fish Pot Restaurant and Bar within 17th century Fort Rupert, two freshwater swimming pools, direct beach access with loungers and parasols, the Little Spa, fitness centre, complimentary kayak and snorkelling equipment, Captain Dwayne’s private water taxi, bicycle rental, laundry service, and free parking.
Complimentary
Wi-Fi and parking
Complimentary watersports
Kayaking and snorkelling
Land sports
Walking and cycling
Out and about nearby
The historic coastal town of Speightstown sits just 3 km south, with its colourful colonial architecture, Arlington House Interactive Museum exploring the island’s history, the striking Speightstown Esplanade mural depicting Barbadian heritage, and the vibrant fish market and jetty where local fishermen bring in the daily catch. St Nicholas Abbey, a beautifully preserved 17th century Jacobean plantation house and rum distillery, lies 8 km inland, offering tours through mahogany-lined Cherry Tree Hill and tastings of estate-produced rum. The dramatic Animal Flower Cave occupies the northernmost point of Barbados, 9 km away, where Atlantic waves crash into sea-carved caverns and natural pools formed over 400,000 years. The Barbados Wildlife Reserve, 8 km southeast, provides encounters with green monkeys, peacocks, and tropical deer roaming freely through mahogany forest. Mullins Beach, 5 km south, offers calm Caribbean waters, water sports facilities, and beachside dining, whilst the rugged east coast at Bathsheba, approximately 20 km across the island, attracts surfers to its powerful Atlantic breaks and features the distinctive rock formations of the Soup Bowl.
Sports nearby
Swimming with turtles, catamaran cruises, water taxi coastal tours, and surfing at Bathsheba.
As always, E provides excellent help and service.Dr D, April 2025
From about
Holiday Code CE154
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke hotel holidays to Little Good Harbour, Barbados
The four-star Little Good Harbour occupies a peaceful fishing village setting on the northwest coast of Barbados, where whitewashed coral-stone cottages shelter beneath swaying palms in a landscape far removed from the busier resorts of the south. This family-run boutique hotel comprises 20 self-catering suites distributed across garden and beachfront locations. The property centres on the Fish Pot Restaurant, set within the atmospheric walls of 17th century Fort Rupert and regarded as one of Barbados’ finest dining destinations. Here, breakfast, lunch, and dinner are served, with tables positioned to capture sea breezes and ocean views. The kitchen adopts a simple, authentic approach to Caribbean cuisine, allowing the quality of the fresh seafood from Speightstown’s nearby fish market to speak for itself. Accommodation ranges from split-level one-bedroom garden suites to spacious three-bedroom Vineyard Garden Suites, each featuring fully equipped kitchens, Balinese furniture, Caribbean art, and private terraces or balconies. Suite names honour wines from Western Australia’s Margaret River region – the original home of the hotel’s Australian hosts. The beachfront Fort Suites occupy enviable positions adjacent to the restaurant, where ocean sounds provide a constant backdrop. Two swimming pools serve the property – a larger slate-lined pool in the Vineyard Garden area and a smaller intimate pool near the original cottages. The white sand beach offers cushioned loungers, parasols, and complimentary kayaks and snorkelling, whilst Captain Dwayne operates a private water taxi service from the jetty for coastal excursions and turtle watching. The Little Spa provides massage therapies, body treatments, and beauty services in a dedicated treatment room.
Room descriptions
Little Good Harbour offers 20 suites, each with Wi-Fi, air-conditioning, fully equipped kitchen with refrigerator, oven, and microwave, separate living room with French doors to terrace or balcony, television, hairdryer, ironing board, iPod docking station, safe, and beach towels.
As always, E provides excellent help and service.Dr D, April 2025
From about
Holiday Code CE154
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke hotel holidays to Little Good Harbour, Barbados
The journey and how you get there
For a holiday to Little Good Harbour, you can fly to Grantley Adams International Airport in Bridgetown and collect a hire car for the scenic 45-minute drive along the west coast to Shermans. Alternatively, we can arrange private transfers from the airport directly to the hotel. A hire car proves useful for exploring the characterful towns, beaches, and attractions of northern Barbados, though the hotel’s peaceful location, direct beach access, swimming pools, and boat excursions mean you can enjoy a relaxing stay without venturing far.
Additional information
Children: Little Good Harbour welcomes families and provides spacious suites and cottages with fully equipped kitchens and multiple bedrooms. Rollaway beds and cots can be arranged on request in selected room categories.
As always, E provides excellent help and service.Dr D, April 2025
From about
Holiday Code CE154
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke hotel holidays to Little Good Harbour, 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
