Founded as a private club in the 1940s, this award-winning hotel is built from coral stone with a plantation home style and plenty of Bajan charm. Matching contemporary luxury with a traditional style, it offers a taste of elegance that makes it one of Barbados’s leading hotels. The interiors exude a classic luxury atmosphere with trademark white-washed wooden ceilings and coral stone walls, and the gardens lead right onto the white-sand beach. There are 96 rooms and suites. Best of the bunch are the ground-floor Luxury Swim Up Poolside Rooms, whose terraces lead directly in to one of the swimming pools, and the Ocean View Suites, directly behind the beach. Dining at the open-air Laguna restaurant is what the Caribbean is all about – a warm gentle breeze, great cocktails, wonderful cuisine and sunsets that will live with you forever.