Luxury bepoke holidays to Waves Hotel and Spa, 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 35-minutes' drive from the airport
Hotel facilities and services
Seascape Mediterranean Restaurant, Asian Fusion Shiso Restaurant, Kyma Coffee Bar, Dine-around Programme, Spa, Water Sports Facilities, Water Taxi, Fitness Centre, Painting Classes, WiFi. Stays of 7+ nights in selected room types include from 1 to 4 spa treatment/s per adult (advance reservation required). Wedding and honeymoon packages available.
Complimentary
Motorised and Non-motorised Water Sports (except jet-skiing) and Water Taxi. Access to Fitness Centre and hotel WiFi. Spa treatments according to room type when staying at least 7 nights.
Complimentary watersports
Water-skiing, Tube Rides, Stand-up Paddle-boarding, Snorkelling, Hobie Cat Sailing, and Kayaking. Aqua School instructors provide free lessons.
Chargeable watersports
Jet-skiiing.
Land sports
Zumba classes, Beach Cricket, Yoga, Pilates, Circuit Training, and Meditation.
Out and about nearby
Those interested in exploring the cultural and natural attractions that Barbados is home to might embark on a scenic island tour, which the hotel can help organise, that takes you past historic churches and old plantation manor houses, and into traditional rum shops. Alternatively, take an eco-hike to explore all the island's beauty spots. Harrison's Cave, at the very centre of the island, is an underground cavern riddled with limestone stalagmites and stalactites, pools, and babbling streams. It is accessed via tram. In the north of the island, you might visit the Barbados Wildlife Reserve, or, in the south, head to the island's capital: Bridgetown. Known for its British colonial architecture, Bridgetown is home to a 17th century garrison, one of the island's famous horseracing tracks, and the National Heroes Square. Off the coast, you will find 6 shipwreck dive sites.
Sports nearby
Golf and beachfront horse-riding.
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 Standard room for 7 nights
From about
£1,880 low season
£2,670 high season
Holiday Code EXH2053
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 Waves Hotel and Spa, Barbados
Room descriptions
Waves has 70 rooms with king-sized bed, sofa bed, air-conditioning, flatscreen television, safe, and telephone.
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 Standard room for 7 nights
From about
£1,880 low season
£2,670 high season
Holiday Code EXH2053
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 Waves Hotel and Spa, Barbados
The journey and how you get there
For a holiday to Waves Hotel and Spa 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. Waves Hotel and Spa is a 40-minute drive from the airport and Expressions Holidays will organise return private car transfers.
Additional information
Minimum stays: 5 nights minimum stay required during February. 7 nights minimum stay required from 22 December to 2 January.
Children: Up to 2 children can be accommodated in Standard rooms, Oceanfront rooms, and the Oceanfront Junior suites. First child stays free when staying in the same room as an adult from 18 April to 30 September. All children aged 5 and under stay free when sharing with adults. All children under the age of 16 must occupy a room with a parent or guardian.
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.
Special Offer 2024 Book now to receive reductions between 12% and 30% off stays from 11 May 2024 to 5 January 2025. Minimum night stay 5 nights required (4 nights from 1 June to 23 October 2024). Restrictions apply.
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 Standard room for 7 nights
From about
£1,880 low season
£2,670 high season
Holiday Code EXH2053
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 Waves Hotel and Spa, 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