Luxury bepoke holidays to The Sandpiper, Barbados
Facts in brief
Official star rating 5
Location On the West Coast, in St James's parish
Annual opening All year except from 20 August to 1 October usually.
Closest airport Bridgetown Barbados
Distance from airport About 45 minutes by car
Hotel facilities and services
Open-air freshwater swimming pool, Water sports including Waterskiing, Cruises and trips by glass-bottom boat and fishing can be arranged, Tennis, Fitness centre, Room service, Weddings.
Complimentary
The hotel organises activities for children aged 2 to 12 years from 1 July to 8 August and provides, free of charge, three half hour sailing trips with the watersports team and three half hour swimming lessons.
Complimentary watersports
Snorkelling, Paddle boarding, Sunfish sailing, Hobie cat sailing, Kayaking, Sailing.
Chargeable watersports
Waterskiing, scuba diving and catamarans at a charge. All motorised water sports are chargeable.
Land sports
Complimentary tennis coaching with resident pro (4pm to 6pm daily excluding Sundays).
Out and about nearby
Numerous shops and restaurants within walking distance.
Sports nearby
Golf.
Lovely holiday and an excellent hotel. We were particularly impressed by the food.Mrs C, April 2019
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Garden room for 7 nights
From about
£2,920 low season
£4,720 high season
Holiday Code CE09
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 The Sandpiper, Barbados
The Sandpiper hotel enjoys a pretty location in luxuriant gardens of coconut palm, lawn, hibiscus and bouganvilla on the edge of a typical Barbadian stretch of sandy beach caressed by the turquoise blue waters of the Caribbean. Built in coral-tinged stone, with white louvred shutters, The Sandpiper has a distinctly West Indian charm. Reached by pathways through the lush gardens, the interiors of The Sandpiper hotel bedrooms are decorated in cool, calm and restful pastel colours. The Sandpiper's raised central pool area in the gardens, adjacent to the bar and restaurant, oozes charm and ambience. The style of the cuisine here at The Sandpiper hotel is eclectic, with international influences and an emphasis on Caribbean ingredients. If you stay on half board here you can dine out at other west coast luxury hotels on some evenings, an excellent scheme operated by these hotels. The Sandpiper has the relaxed, solid feel of a good quality hotel but is cheerful too. It is a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World. In our opinion The Sandpiper hotel in Barbados appeals to a wide variety of guests, whether you want a relaxing but quality environment, easy access to the beach and water sports, a good restaurant or perhaps accommodation suitable for families.
Room descriptions
The Sandpiper has 52 rooms and suites.
Lovely holiday and an excellent hotel. We were particularly impressed by the food.Mrs C, April 2019
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Garden room for 7 nights
From about
£2,920 low season
£4,720 high season
Holiday Code CE09
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 The Sandpiper, Barbados
The journey and how you get there
For a holiday to The Sandpiper 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. The Sandpiper is a 45-minute drive from the airport and Expressions Holidays will organise return private car transfers.
Additional information
Minimum stays: A minimum stay of 7 nights applies in February and between 22 and 29 November. A minimum stay of 10 nights is applicable to stays between 20 December and 6 January, unless guests are departing before 27 December.
Children: Children of all ages are accepted all year round. Children under 5 are not allowed in the restaurant or lounge after 7pm. Children under 16 cannot occupy a room alone unless it is an interconnecting room.
Other information: Exchange dining for guests on half board between Sandpiper and Coral Reef. The dress code is elegantly casual, At breakfast the hotel asks that ladies wear cover-ups in the Restaurant and gentlemen wear short sleeves and no hats. After 7pm gentlemen are required to wear long trousers in the Restaurant and Cocktail lounge. On New Year's Eve the dress code is smart.
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.
Lovely holiday and an excellent hotel. We were particularly impressed by the food.Mrs C, April 2019
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Garden room for 7 nights
From about
£2,920 low season
£4,720 high season
Holiday Code CE09
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 The Sandpiper, 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
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bepoke holidays to The Sandpiper, Barbados
Children's clubs
The hotel organises activities for children aged 2 to 12 years from 1 July to 8 August and provides, free of charge, three half hour sailing trips with the watersports team and three half hour swimming lessons.
Babysitting
The hotel is able to provide reliable babysitters, during daytime and evening, at a charge.
Children's entertainment
Children's books are available on request. The Sandpiper's sister hotel, Coral Reef Club is a two minute drive away and has an unsupervised playground open to children up to 10 years. Older children may enjoy complimentary non-motorised sports. Children aged 13 and above may have spa treatments and must be accompanied by an adult when using the Thermal Spa Garden
Medical services
There is a doctor next door to the hotel and the nearest hospital is 8 miles away. There is a 24-hour emergency medical centre situated 5 minutes from the hotel.
Family dining
The hotel requests that children under five are not brought into the restaurant during dinner service. From 5.30pm to 7pm a children's room service dinner is available and meals are chosen from the children's menu and must be arranged with the Maitre D' by midday. The chef is able to provide blended fresh food for younger babies. The cuisine has international influences and an emphasis on Caribbean ingredients.
Family rooms
Children under 16 years cannot occupy a room alone (not applicable to connecting rooms). Maximum occupancy is 2 adults in the Garden rooms, 2 adults and 2 children in the one-bedroom suites, 2 adults and 2 children in the Beach House Suite and 5 people in the Two-bedroom suites. Extra beds and cots are available on request.
Children's amenities
The hotel is able to provide high-chairs, playpens, pushchairs, hot plates, bottle sterilisers and kettles on request, at no additional charge. Please ask for details.
Lovely holiday and an excellent hotel. We were particularly impressed by the food.Mrs C, April 2019
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Garden room for 7 nights
From about
£2,920 low season
£4,720 high season
Holiday Code CE09
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.
