Crystal Cove is an all-inclusive hotel located right on the beachfront on the platinum west coast of Barbados. This beautiful resort features lush gardens and three impressive freshwater swimming pools, complete with a spectacular waterfall and swim-up cave bar. Flowers cascade over walls and balconies, and everything leads down to a glorious beach with a generous array of water sports, including water-skiing, sailing and more, all complimentary of course! There is a fabulous kids’ club to keep the little ones out of your hair, allowing you to relax and enjoy the full range of facilities and entertainment (of which there are plenty!).
Amenities
Kayaking
Sailing
Snorkelling
Tennis
Water Skiing
Windsurfing
Babysitting service
Kids Club
Families
Honeymoon
Wedding
Bar
Where is it
In St James, on a delightful west coast beach. 15-minutes to Bridgetown. Transfer time from airport: 30 minutes.
Hotel information
88 rooms on 2 floors in various buildings with no lifts. All with a balcony or terrace, air-conditioning, satellite TV, mini fridge, complimentary WiFi access, safe, bathrobe, slippers, and hairdryer.
Pool/Garden View Rooms with 1 king-size bed or twin beds, sleep maximum 2 adults and 1 infant (up to age 2 years).
Please note: the majority of the Pool Garden View Rooms have a garden view and the pool views are limited. All rooms are non-smoking.
All Inclusive of: all meals including afternoon tea and all-day dining. Local and premium-brand drinks and house wine (fine wine and Champagne at extra charge). All activities and entertainment unless otherwise stated. Water taxi to select west coast sister properties. Dine Around programme with other select Elegant Hotels properties (drink and meal supplements may apply).
Oceanview Rooms - with beautiful sea views and 1 king-size bed or twin beds, sleeping maximum 2 adults.
Junior Suite Pool/Garden View - with a separate sitting area and sofa bed, lovely views of the pool or garden, and 1 king-size bed, sleeping maximum 3 people.
Junior Suite Oceanview - as Junior Suite Pool/Garden View but with beautiful sea views, sleeping maximum 3 people.
1-Bedroom Suite Pool/Garden View - bedroom with separate living room or loft suite with upstairs bedroom overlooking living room, living room includes sofa bed and second full bathroom, 1 king-size bed, sleeping maximum 4 adults or 2 adults, 2 children and 1 infant (up to 2 years of age).
1-Bedroom Suite Oceanview - bedroom with separate living room or loft suite with upstairs bedroom overlooking living room, living room includes sofa bed and second full bathroom. 1 king-size bed, sleeping maximum 4 adults or 2 adults, 2 children and 1 infant (up to 2 years of age).
Reflections (all day dining with buffet breakfast and a la carte dinner, as well as international buffet evening on Wednesdays). Drifters Restaurant and Bar (beachfront Caribbean restaurant, serving casual buffet lunch, afternoon tea, and a la carte dinner, as well as beach BBQ on Saturdays). Cave Bar (swim-up pool bar). Vista Coffee & Wine Bar (serving drinks and light bites). The Beach Bar. Taste of Elegance Dine Around Programme offers exchange dining with select sister hotels' restaurants* (meal and drinks supplements may apply).
Regular evening entertainment and weekly manager's cocktail party. Events hosted at Vista Coffee & Wine bar to include wine pairings and tapas nights.
3-tiered freshwater swimming pool. Spa services available*. Fitness centre. Wellness classes including yoga, pilates, and water aerobics. 2 floodlit tennis courts. Complimentary motorised and non-motorised water sports including snorkelling, stand up paddle boarding, banana boats, tubing, sailing, kayaking, and water-skiing. Beach Olympics. Freddie's Island & Adventure tour*. Apes Hill Golf Club*. Complimentary Flying Fish Kids' Club for ages 3-12 years with latest game consoles, pool table, electric race track and more. Swimming with the turtles snorkel tour*. Mixology demos.
Room service* (meal times only). Complimentary WiFi available in the rooms and throughout the resort. Laundry service*. Complimentary daytime water taxi (subject to availability and weather conditions) to select West Coast Elegant Hotels. Gift shop*. Babysitting available*. Green Globe certified. Beach Ambassador service. Concierge services to assist with island excursions.
A Tourism Fee will be charged per bedroom, per night and will be collected at check out. The rate is subject to change by the Government, and varies by hotel room. Fees currently range from 8.75 Barbadian dollar (approximately £3.90) to 35 Barbadian dollar (approximately £16.00) per bedroom, per night.
1 night between 5 Jan—31 Jan, and 1 Mar—21 Dec.
5 nights between 1 Feb—28 Feb.
7 nights between 22 Dec—2 Jan.
* Denotes local charge.
Please note: child ages are up to and including 16 years.
Please note: Drifters restaurant and bar is open subject to occupancy numbers.
Dress code: dining is elegantly casual after 6:00pm.
Please note: the Dine Around programme is only available at select properties and may be subject to an additional cost dependant on the board basis booked. A complimentary water taxi to select west coast Elegant properties is available during daytime only and subject to availability and weather conditions.
Based on 2651 reviews
Rating summary
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Excellent (1581)
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Average (213)
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2 centre holiday.
Nov 11, 2024Selfbu
First opinion was great but that was checking.
Beach is nice.
Sunbeds mostly comfortable.
Room bed very comfortable and shower and bathroom excellent.
Breakfast servers very helpful but food very average.
Dinner had one excellent meal in 6 days
Chefs can do it but something holding them back because other meals were poor.
Some staff had…
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First opinion was great but that was checking.
Beach is nice.
Sunbeds mostly comfortable.
Room bed very comfortable and shower and bathroom excellent.
Breakfast servers very helpful but food very average.
Dinner had one excellent meal in 6 days
Chefs can do it but something holding them back because other meals were poor.
Some staff had really rude and arrogant
Attitude inthe cave bar.bar by the beach
Staff very nice and helpful.
Coffee bar great and staff so nice sorry
But management not in control of knowing
Staff problem with a small minority of staff that need retraining or not in front of house
Positions.
Met Stefan very professional manager but
He can't check everything the other managers are slacking talk the talk but that's all that happens.hope it improves after
Refurb we won't be back though
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Really tired and dated hotel!
Nov 10, 2024Guy B
The hotel is due to have a refurbishment at the end of March 25 which I found out whilst there and I can see why! Dated, tired and not worth the 4 star rating at all. Only one inside restaurant with very limited food. They have an outside bar/restaurant by the sea but its exposed to the rain and birds, we were left in the rain one evening with our…
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The hotel is due to have a refurbishment at the end of March 25 which I found out whilst there and I can see why! Dated, tired and not worth the 4 star rating at all. Only one inside restaurant with very limited food. They have an outside bar/restaurant by the sea but its exposed to the rain and birds, we were left in the rain one evening with our meal. The sunbeds/parasols are old and damaged and scattered all over the beach. We had a leak outside our room and other rooms had sandbags outside theirs. Several times our bookings for lunch at their Waves hotel were lost and not followed up. Housekeeping done daily but some days they left us without towels.
The gym had broken machines in it leaving one running machine between all of the guests.
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Great Seaview rooms in a lovely location
Nov 9, 2024Emma LJersey, United Kingdom
The location of this hotel is on the west coast and is very good, close to some good restaurants. It is an all inclusive hotel so you have to pay to be all inclusive.
The meals are ok but not brilliant. You can go to Waves which is 5 mins on the water taxi and the meals are also inclusive there but you need to book a day in advance. We went for…
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The location of this hotel is on the west coast and is very good, close to some good restaurants. It is an all inclusive hotel so you have to pay to be all inclusive.
The meals are ok but not brilliant. You can go to Waves which is 5 mins on the water taxi and the meals are also inclusive there but you need to book a day in advance. We went for lunch there once and once for dinner and we ate out independently a few times. We found the food to be better at Waves and the hotel is a bit more upmarket but there isn't much of a beach and the hotel is elevated, I'm glad we were staying at Crystal Cove.
Crystal Cove is quite rustic but very clean. We did not have a problem with it but it is due for a refurb which is much needed. We had 2 rooms right on the beach, on top of each other. Our teenage children were in a deluxe room below ours. There are outdoor steps to reach our room. Both had balconies overlooking the beach/sea. I would definitely recommend this type of room as the others are not as good.
The beach is very nice and you can enjoy spectacular daily sunsets. The bar staff take orders on the beach and come around with drinks and ice creams which is a nice touch.
The watersports are very good, inclusive of sailing, wakeboarding, water skiing, paddle boarding etc. There is an area safe to swim but no lifeguards.
Jet skiing is also available at a charge.
We did not use the pools, good for kids but not for adults wanting to do lengths etc.
There is plenty of parking for hire cars. Dress code is smart casual for dinner. The lobby area is nice and spacious with good views and there is a fab coffee shop which is part of the all inclusive.
There is a cave bar which I thought would be amazing for our teenage children, it was ok but didn't have much atmosphere, is was a bit disappointing.
The grounds in some areas are well kept but not in others, this could be improved.
Overall we had a fabulous holiday but we did go out and about quite a lot and probably only ate lunch here 3 times out of 7 and dinner 3 times. Breakfast had a good selection and there is an omelette station.
I would like to come back once the hotel has been refurbished.
Thanks to all the staff for being helpful, nothing was a problem and the staff seemed happy.
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*A Complete Scam – Avoid at All Costs!*
Nov 7, 2024Nomad65511504990London, United Kingdom
*A Complete Scam – Avoid at All Costs!*
When it rained (which, of course, happens in Barbados), water leaked all over the bed and floor.
Payed for the hotel shuttle to go to the cricket and it never came to pick us up so we ended up having to pay for a private taxi aswell.
Some of the staff were very rude and everything was a chore for them.…
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*A Complete Scam – Avoid at All Costs!*
When it rained (which, of course, happens in Barbados), water leaked all over the bed and floor.
Payed for the hotel shuttle to go to the cricket and it never came to pick us up so we ended up having to pay for a private taxi aswell.
Some of the staff were very rude and everything was a chore for them.
When you try to complain the managers are conveniently never around so no solutions are provided.
So many more examples.
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Very poor experience
Nov 7, 2024karl sNottingham, United Kingdom
We arrived on 31/10 and go home today.
The hotel was very tired in desperate need of a refurbishment, every time it rained it came through the roof in our room. The bathroom was awful, shower almost non existent.
Management not helpful, lots of complaints from guests.
To top it off, we leave at 1630 and no courtesy room to change into before…
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We arrived on 31/10 and go home today.
The hotel was very tired in desperate need of a refurbishment, every time it rained it came through the roof in our room. The bathroom was awful, shower almost non existent.
Management not helpful, lots of complaints from guests.
To top it off, we leave at 1630 and no courtesy room to change into before leaving.
A complete disgrace, the hotel group should be embarrassed to accept guests into this hotel.
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2 centre holiday.
