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The Colony Club - A Luxury Hotel
The Colony Club, a former gentleman's club with 98 rooms and suites, is one of a small chain of luxury hotels in Barbados owned by Elegant Hotels, and its cool, airy interior makes it easy to wind down.
It's near Holetown on the island's Platinum Coast, where sandy white beaches meet the millpond-calm sea. Transfer from the airport takes about 50 minutes.
Most rooms have a sea view and spacious balcony, and if you're not
relaxed enough by the sun, sea and sand, a salon offers massages and beauty treatments.
Lunch on the beachfront deck is casual, with lots of favourites like
burgers and club sandwiches besides a few Bajan dishes like salt fish
cakes and chicken curry with roti, a flat bread.
For dinner you can choose between two good restaurants. Our favourite, the Laguna, offered a bit of an Asian twist: tempura shrimp with mango salsa, fabulous seared tuna with wasabi and plenty of local fish.
The diversity and quality of the food in Barbados was a surprise -
though perhaps not so strange given the island's popularity with the international jet-set. This is Michael Winner's holiday destination of choice - and some prices are certainly pitched at the super-rich too.
This part of the west coast seems to have the island's highest
concentration of good restaurants, so if you fancy a change from hotel menus you can wander into Holetown, a mere 10 minutes away.
It's the oldest town on the island and saw its first English settlers in 1627. Its shopping malls include a branch of the island's biggest
department store Cave Shepherd for some duty-free shopping, and a few craft shops.
And it has Cocomos, a lively beachfront bar that sells some of the
biggest, juiciest shrimp in the world and does a fine line in cocktails (the house cocktail, Baileys, rum and coconut, is a winner).
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