Luxury bepoke holidays to Coral Reef Club, Barbados
Facts in brief
Official star rating 5
Location West side of the island
Annual opening Closed usually from 20 August to 1 October
Closest airport Grantley Adams International Airport
Distance from airport The hotel is 45-minutes' drive from the airport
Hotel facilities and services
Restaurant, Bar, 2 open-air freshwater swimming pools, Gardens, Water sports, Golf, Tennis courts (daytime and night-time play), Gym, Spa, Hairdressing, Gift shop, Room service, Children's playground, Babysitters, Regular evening entertainment, Family programme, Garden tours on Wednesdays, Weddings can be arranged.
Complimentary
The hotel organises activities for children aged 2 to 12 years from 11 July until 22 August and provides, free of charge, three half hour sailing trips with the watersports team and three half hour swimming lessons.
Complimentary watersports
Snorkelling, Kayaking, Sunfish sailing, Hobie cat sailing, Paddle boarding.
Chargeable watersports
Big game fishing can be arranged and there is a Scuba diving school on site.
Out and about nearby
Shops and restaurants of the West Coast are within easy reach nearby.
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 Garden room or cottage for 7 nights
From about
£2,920 low season
£4,720 high season
Holiday Code CE07
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 Coral Reef Club, Barbados
Coral Reef Club is one of the most outstanding hotels on Barbados, offering tremendous rest and relaxation in a luxurious ambience. The colonial-style cottages and houses that comprise Coral Reef Club nestle in 12 acres of leafy tropical gardens that stretch to a magnificent beach front. Bursting with bougainvillaea, hibiscus and palms, the grounds are a sheer delight, ideal for a pleasant stroll or to find a shady corner for a quiet read. They are also the setting for the lovely spa with a wide choice of treatments on offer. With their white wooden verandas, sloping grey roofs and beamed ceilings, the buildings are quaintly colonial in style, an atmosphere that is enhanced in the main house, with its piano bar and open-sided terrace restaurant overlooking the beach and sea. The charming bar is the perfect place to gather for refreshing afternoon tea or pre-dinner drinks with friends. The 88 bedrooms and suites are all very spacious with good-sized bathrooms and charmingly decorated, blending white walls, beamed ceilings, stone, wicker and wood, all enlivened with gaily coloured cushions and paintings. The special ambience and colonial style of Coral Reef is epitomised in the five highly desirable luxury Plantation Suites, each with its own terrace and plunge pool and superb interior design. Various room types connect to make excellent family accommodation - if the combination you want is not priced below, please ask us for details. There is also the Ixora Villa sleeping up to 8 and the Tamarind Villa sleeping up to 6. A member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, Coral Reef Club is an elegant, sophisticated hotel of very high standards with a traditional feel and a highly desirable ambience. We recommend it very highly.
Room descriptions
Coral Reef Club has 88 rooms, cottages and suites. Unless otherwise stated all rooms and suites have a maximum occupancy of 2. All rooms include patio or balcony, air conditioning, ceiling fan, safety deposit box, fridge, hairdryer, telephone, clock radio, CD player.
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 Garden room or cottage for 7 nights
From about
£2,920 low season
£4,720 high season
Holiday Code CE07
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 Coral Reef Club, Barbados
The journey and how you get there
For a holiday to Coral Reef Club 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. Coral Reef Club is a 45-minute drive from the airport and Expressions Holidays will organise return private car transfers.
Additional information
Minimum stays: Minimum stay of 10 nights between 20 December and 6 January. Shorter stays for Luxury Plantation Suites may be requested. Minimum stay of 7 nights during February and between 22 and 29 November.
Children: Children under 12 are not admitted between 20 January - end February. Children under 5 years are not allowed in the restaurant or lounge after 7pm. Children under 16 cannot occupy a room alone unless it is an interconnecting room. An unsupervised playground, babysitting services and family programme are available at Coral Reef Club. Amenities such as cots, high chairs, beds with sides, play pens, push chairs and children's books are available upon request for no additional charge. The hotel recommends children are accommodated in a Luxury Cottage.
Other information: The dress code is elegantly casual. At breakfast and lunch the hotel asks that ladies wear cover-ups in the Restaurant and that gentlemen wear short sleeves and no hats. After 7pm gentlemen are required to wear long trousers in the Restaurant and Cocktail lounge. Shorts are permitted on the Reef Terrace only. On Christmas night and New Year's Eve the dress code is glamorous for ladies and smart for gentlemen but jackets are not required. Exchange dining: guests booking half board may dine at The Sandpiper. A surcharge of Bds$25.00 will be charged to all bookings including motorised water sports (skiing, sightseeing tours, Banana/Mabel rides etc). This charge will be based per 15-minute time slot and will be charged directly to the guest account. All non-motorised water sports will remain on a complimentary basis.
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 Garden room or cottage for 7 nights
From about
£2,920 low season
£4,720 high season
Holiday Code CE07
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 Coral Reef 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
