CARIBBEAN: Island by Island
Couples can enjoy £300 off their Bahamas wedding or honeymoon if arranged through Bahamas Flavour (bahamasfl
avour.co.uk) and booked before March 2014.
com) features 17 rooms and seven deluxe suites and a contemporary take on classic Art Deco design. The four-star Radisson Aquatica
BARBADOS
Barbados is an old favourite with British tourists, drawn by its beaches, sunshine, food and sporting pursuits as well as the nightlife, the gardens, the rum and the people. The island now boasts its fi rst UNESCO designated World Heritage Site, Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison. Barbados’ packed calendar includes
cricket matches, football tournaments, sailing regattas, golf, polo, food festivals and fashion shows. What’s new: An intimate, all-
inclusive four-star hotel has opened on the South Beach boardwalk in Hastings. The SoCo Hotel (thesocohotel.
Resort Barbados (
radisson.com) has opened on Carlisle Bay on the southwest coast. Following Oprah Winfrey and Rihanna’s journey to Barbados to visit Rihanna’s childhood haunts, West Indian International Tours (
wiit.net) has two new tours offering visitors an insight into the superstar’s early life. Thomas Cook Airways (fl ythomascook.
com) is to start its twice-weekly service from Manchester this month.
BERMUDA
Just six-and-a-half hours’ fl ying time from London, Bermuda stretches for just 21 miles and is surrounded by a 200-square-mile coral reef plateau. With temperatures rarely straying from 18-29C (65–85F), visitors can enjoy the island’s unique pink beaches and warm waters at any time. Accommodation ranges from fi ve-star resorts such as The Reefs in Southampton to intimate guest cottages and inns like The Rosedon in Hamilton. The island has over
Above, horse riding on a Cayman Islands beach with, left, a romantic sunset in Barbados
150 restaurants, from simple and inexpensive to elegant fi ne dining. Bermuda claims to offer more wreck dives and more golf – it has seven courses per square mile than anywhere else in the world – deep sea fi shing and world-class spas. What’s new: St. George’s Club’s The Beach House at Blackbeard’s Hideout (
stgeorgesclub.com) reopened in February 2013 and is now under the new management of Chef Piero.
The Fairmont Hamilton Princess
Hotel (
fairmont.com) has recently been purchased by local investors, the Green family, who will be looking to make signifi cant renovations. A new infi nity pool is just one of the highlights visitors can expect after the works have fi nished. The same group has purchased the land where once stood the Sonesta Beach Hotel. It has plans for a new low-rise resort development on the site.
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