Barbados Beaches

Barbados beaches are calm and ideal for swimming, snorkeling, sailing, and water sports. The numerous hotels in the area provide visitors with plenty of options for lunch and drinks.

Mullins Beach Barbados: This is a very popular beach in Barbados with moderately calm waters. It is easily accessed and parking is available right across the road. There are also food and drinks available from Mullins Beach Bar right on the beach, who also provide decent lighting at night for those who may like night-time swimming. It makes a nice picnic spot during the day and is definitely worth a visit.

Paynes Bay Beach Barbados: This is also a moderately calm beach and is located opposite the Coach House restaurant & bar. It is easily accessible and has parking. A great beach for snorkeling and water sports. Bombas Beach Bar and The Coach House Restaurant are close by.

Holetown beach Barbados: Lovely crystal clear water and calm seas. Occasionaly the swimmer may catch a glimpse of a sea turtle and perhaps even swim with one. This beach is easily accessible and water sports are available at reasonable rates. Baku, Chefette and Kokomos provide great food.

Speightstown Barbados: In this town, known as "Little Bristol" there are many beaches which allow for good swimming and other activities like snorkelling. There are also long beaches stretches that make for good walks.

The Sunday Mirror, a newspaper with a readership of millions of people, recently ranked Dickenson Bay in Antigua as the number one Caribbean beach, with Carlisle Bay in Barbados, along with Negril in Jamaica, Reduit in St. Lucia and Playa Dorada in the Dominican Republic, as the top five beaches in the region.

In its beach report, the publication, in describing Carlisle Bay as a “laid-back family” location, said; “The beach is shallow and safe for kids. Beach vendors are strictly controlled and set up stalls in front of the Boat Yard bar leaving sunbathers in peace.”

To help make its choices, the paper said it called in experts from the University of Glamorgan who believe that they have come up with a formula for what makes a good beach.

According to the Sunday Mirror, researchers from the university asked 1 000 Britons what they wanted from a seaside holiday and produced a checklist saying that the perfect beach should be safe, have dramatic scenery, no huge tides, no litter and clear, sparkling water. “Then we added in a few demands of our own. A holiday beach should have family-friendly beach bars, lots of shade and safe watersports,” the paper said. So if you want to visit the best beaches in the Caribbean, look no futher then Barbados beaches and beach life!