Cheap Flights from Barbados. Caribbean Airlines Tickets from $288*

Barbados seems to have it all. Seventy miles of gorgeous beaches, great restaurants and resorts, well organised tours and a long list of attractions. There’s plenty of nightlife, a full range of water and land sports, tropical gardens, stately great houses, festivals, vibrant music...

The island packs tremendous variety into just 21 miles by 14. The south coast is well developed with hotels, restaurants and entertainment spots. The rich and famous are drawn to parts of the opulent west coast. The north has a rugged beauty, while Atlantic swells and winds make the east coast wild and beautiful.

Barbados’s proud history is on display at the Barbados Museum and in the interactive displays of the Arlington House Museum in Speightstown. Even George Washington came to Barbados for rest and recuperation – you can visit the house where he lived in 1751.

This is the birthplace of Caribbean rum, road tennis, and Rihanna. It is the land of the flying fish. It is cricket at Kensington Oval, polo and horse racing on the Garrison Savannah, surfing at Bathsheba, cruising with partying pirates on the Jolly Roger. Pick your pleasure: Barbados is ready to welcome you!

• Crop Over, marking the traditional end of the sugar harvest in late July/early August, is Barbados’s carnival in all but name.
• Tour one of the island’s distilleries. This is the birthplace of rum, and the home of some of the Caribbean’s best.
• Explore the dramatic underwater world without even getting wet, on board the Atlantis submarine.
• Take a catamaran cruise. Most include the chance to scuba dive and explore shipwrecks in the shallow coastal waters.
• Explore the lively nightlife around St Lawrence Gap on the south coast or Second Street in Holetown.
• Taste the lively weekend Fish Fry at Oistins on the south coast.
• Explore a UNESCO World Heritage site: historic central Bridgetown, and the Garrison, once a military base and now home to the Barbados Museum.
• Enjoy Barbados’s beautiful tropical gardens, such as Andromeda, Hunte’s, or the Flower Forest.
• Ride through a spectacular cave system at Harrison’s Cave.
• Enjoy magnificent beauty spots like the Animal Flower Cave at Barbados’s northern tip or the Cherry Tree Hill lookout overlooking the east coast.