AIRLINE CONNECTIONS
International Airport: Grantly Adams Airport
International long-haul direct flights to Europe
(London, Frankfurt, Zurich)and N America
(Miami, New York, Toronto)
Inter-island flights daily flights to neighbouring
islands

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Calling from abroad: ✆(1)246 + 7 digits
Local call: 7 digits

TOURIST INFORMATION
Barbados Tourism Authority, Harbour Rd,
Bridgetown
✆246 427 2623 Fax 246 426 4080
www.barbados.org
www.visitbarbados.org

ASSOCIATIONS
Barbados Yacht Club, Careenage
✆246 427 7318 Fax 246 427 7580
Email byc@caribsurf.com
Barbados Sailing & Cruising Club, Careenage,
✆246 426 4434
www.barbadoscruisingclub.org
Barbados National Trust, Bridgetown
✆246 436 9033
www.barbadosnationaltrust.org

FESTIVALS/FOLK FESTIVALS
Numerous regattas throughout the year
Jazz Festival: January
Holetown Festival: February
Oistins Fish Festival: Easter
Festival of Gospel Music: May
Crop Over Festival (Sugar Cane Festival): July
Kadooment Day (Carnival): beginning of August

GOLF COURSES
Sandy Lane Golf Club
Royal Westmoreland Golf Club

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
New Year’s Day (1 January), Errol Barrow Day (21
January), Good Friday, Easter Monday, National
Heroes Day (28 April), Labour Day (1 May), Whit
Monday, Emancipation Day (1 August),
Kadooment Day (first Monday in August),
Independence Day (end November/start
December), Christmas Day (25 December),
Boxing Day (26 December)

PLACES TO SEE
Bridgetown
St Michael’s Cathedral
National Heroes Square and Nelson’s Monument
St Mary’s Church (18th century)
Barbados Museum (old military prison)
Elsewhere
Animal Flower Cave: underwater grotto
Andromeda Gardens
Barbados Wildlife Reserve
Flower Forest (Orchids), St Joseph
Harrison’s Cave
The Hutson Sugar Museum, Holetown
Sam Lord’s Castle (1820), S of the island
Sunbury Plantation House (18th century, St
Philip’s Museum)
Barbados National Trust: walks
ROAD TRANSPORT
Drive on the left
A licence is obligatory
Good public transport (buses and minibuses✆and
taxis
Car hire companies in the town and at the
airport

FORMALITIES
Arriving by air
Customs and immigration at the airport
Arriving by sea
Offices at:
Bridgetown Harbour (in the S of the commercial
port✆(VHF 16)
Port St Charles (contact on VHF 16/77)
Open daily 0600-2200 (overtime from 1700
onwards)
Q flag obligatory, be ready for the authorities to
come aboard
Fees and taxes Entry/exit permit as well as an
anchoring fee
Notes
Formalities are complicated. You must complete
both entry and exit clearance in the same
office.
Seek authorisation to use any anchorage other
than that of your port of entry.
Anchoring only over sand and absolutely
forbidden over coral. Heavy fines.
Outside the reserves, trolling is permitted