Best of Barbados Tour

Barbados, Barbados

On this tour, you'll experience the very best Barbados has to offer including the spectacular east coast. Visit the Wildlife Reserve for a glimpse of the mischievous Barbados green tail monkeys. Then it's off to the western coast, which with its white-sand beaches and calm turquoise water, has spectacular colorful reefs and perfect snorkel locations!

Your tour begins with a trip to the awesome Harrison's Cave before you make your way up the island's green hills and down to the spectacular east coast. After enjoying the breathtaking sights and stops, you'll enjoy a quick lunch (included). Then, it's on to the Wildlife Reserve for a glimpse of those mischievous Barbados green tail monkeys!

Your day continues with a sail down the west coast, where you'll have the opportunity to snorkel with the local green sea turtles. Some of the island's prettiest beaches and calmest waters are along this coastline. The western coast of Barbados has reef dives with soft corals, gorgonians and colorful sponges, as well as about a dozen accessible shipwrecks!

Tour Highlights:

• Harrison's Cave
• Wildlife Reserve
• Scenic East Coast
• Snorkeling at a ship wreck
• Swimming with turtles (West Coast)
• Glass Bottom Boat Cruise

You will also get a glimpse of the Morgan Lewis windmill on this tour!

USD $137.49

Review by: M. W	March 2012
wildlife reserve was small and we did not see any monkeys._br/_ harrison cave was amazing. _br/_ swimming with the turtles was the best but short._br/_ they had a lot of time need to go to the different locations to drive. the result was that we hunted everywhere and got little time.

Review by: Mary M B	March 2012
Tour was excellent. _br/_ Another day in paradise. _br/_ Guide was a fount of knowledge._br/_ Would take again just to snorkel with the fishes._br/_ Most island tours we took had to be paid in US cash.

Review by: Sue M	October 2011
An excellent tour of the island. The group was nice and small - at times only 4 of us going up to a maximum of 8 of us in a minibus which made for an informal setting. The tour guides were excellent - very knowledgeable and obviously proud of their island, very friendly and funny too. Swimming with the turtles was the definite highlight but it was lovely to see the caves and animal reserve too and also a great way to see a bit of the rest of the island as you travelled from place to place. Highly recommended. I would use Glory Tours again - they called and left a message for us on our arrival at our hotel to confirm the pick up details for our tour and the lady we spoke to on the phone was very helpful and friendly too.

Review by: Oscar M	October 2011
loved this trip. our driver was on time picking us up from the hotel. great tour, we got to see a lot of great things. swimming with the turtles was the best!

Review by: kim w	August 2011
We had absolutely the best day. Would definitely use again. There were seven of us scheduled and they were able to add two family members last minute which we appreciated. Liked how they used local authentic restaurant for lunch. Money well spent

Review by: Robert S	June 2011
Great Tour and Lunch. Fantastic swim with the turtles!

Review by: Jennie W	May 2011
Great leisurely and informative tour. Our guide was so friendly and encouraged us to ask questions. He knew SO much about the island. We had a nice lunch which featured local foods. I loved the visit to the nature preserve. Lots of good photo opportunities everywhere we went. I would recommend the tour to anyone but especially seniors like us.

Review by: Julie F	April 2011
This was a great tour. We saw a lot of the island and thoroughly enjoyed swimming with the (3) sea turtles. They were very friendly towards humans and would swim right up by us. Great tour! Excellent tour guide Jamal!!

Review by: Marie M	September 2010
greatest tour I have ever taken.

Review by: PARBATIE D, Trinidad and Tobago	July 2010
First rate guide....very knowledgable about island.

Review by: John W, United Kingdom	May 2010
Trip starts late at 10am and as a result we were really pushed and never really spent enough time at any of the visits except for Harrisons Cave. Great visit with a wonderful guide. A must do in Barbados! Then off to the East coast to Andrmeda gardens. Lovely gardens but we were only allowed a 20 minute stop. Then on to Bathsheba which is very scenic but again limited to around 20 minutes. Off to lunch which was OK. Then on to the animal refuge to see the monkeys. We spent 10 minutes or so feeding them then another 15 minutes in the park. Hardly time to see anything much. Beware of the monkeys as they are not all friendly and will maul your clothes! Then we rushed off to swim with the turtles. This was a great part of the trip as we fed fish from our fingers and there were a mass of them right up next to you. Did not see any turtles. Overall an OK trip but could have been much better had we started at 8:30am rather than 10:00am. If you like flowers and trees then go alone to Andromeda and do the blue trail. Fantastic.

Review by: Travis N, United States of America	January 2010
Tour was informative. Guide was delightful. Snokeling was wonderful.

Review by: Frank M, United States of America	January 2010
Tour was informative. Guilde was delightful. Snokeling was wonderful.

Review by: Kathleen K, United States of America	October 2009
Harrison Caves was closed and I was not notified. They also could have been a bit more organized picking people up. The glass bottom boat was dirty and the snorkeling epuipment was filthy and unsanitary.

Review by: Peter B, United Kingdom	August 2008
A great trip with an informative and humorous guide/driver. A small group of people, so it was 'intimate' and very friendly.

Review by: Pauline B, United Kingdom	June 2008
The trip down the cave was good and the visit to the animal park would have been interesting had we had more than 20 minutes. The lunch was mediocre to say the lest with not enough time to finish, and I'm not a slow eater, and we were not allowed to take the drink which we had not finished with us. We did see 23 good views but most of the trip did not reflect the good side of Barbados, more the run-down and dilapidated. Having dashed to the boat for the snorkeling we had to wait more than 30 minutes on the beach. This would have been quite pleasant on a good beach but surrounded by cackling locals myself and my teenage daughter felt quite intimidated. Swimming with the fish was ok but we did not rate the sunken ship. The guide was more intent on keeping his mini bus clean than being civil to the trippers. Maybe a trip for the 20 somethings but as a family we did not enjoy it. We hired a car the next day and saw what we had expected to see on the trip in half the time.

Review by: PAULINE B	June 2008
The trip down the cave was good and the visit to the animal park would have been interesting had we had more than 20 minutes. The lunch was mediocre to say the lest with not enough time to finish, and I'm not a slow eater, and we were not allowed to take the drink which we had not finished with us. We did see 23 good views but most of the trip did not reflect the good side of Barbados, more the run-down and dilapidated. Having dashed to the boat for the snorkeling we had to wait more than 30 minutes on the beach. This would have been quite pleasant on a good beach but surrounded by cackling locals myself and my teenage daughter felt quite intimidated. Swimming with the fish was ok but we did not rate the sunken ship. The guide was more intent on keeping his mini bus clean than being civil to the trippers. Maybe a trip for the 20 somethings but as a family we did not enjoy it. We hired a car the next day and saw what we had expected to see on the trip in half the time.

Review by: Susan P, United States of America	March 2008
I actually snorkeled with the turtle that is pictured!!!! It was the thrill of a lifetime for me. The tour of the Harrison's Cave, the wildlife refuge with the green monkeys and red footed tortoises was fantastic. The lunch was regional and superb. The afternoon spent snorkeling with the turtles, and then over the ship wreck was wonderful. My only negative was finding the tour from my cruise ship and that would have been rectified had I read the note about calling to confirm before leaving the US.

Review by: Sonia R, Australia	July 2007
We were in Barbados and booked this tour in April and we loved it!!! The tour guide was awesome and made it extremely fun for us -- even though he had to put up with 6 screaming Aussie girls giving him a hard time, haha! All in all this was the best tour that we took in Barbados. Great work, we really really enjoyed it!! Will definitely be recommending this to others!!

Review by: Anonymous	July 2007
We were in Barbados and booked this tour in April and we loved it!!! The tour guide was awesome and made it extremely fun for us -- even though he had to put up with 6 screaming Aussie girls giving him a hard time, haha! All in all this was the best tour that we took in Barbados. Great work, we really really enjoyed it!! Will definitely be recommending this to others!!

Review by: Anonymous, United States of America	April 2007
Great tour. The guide made the day very fun and was very informative. The turtles were great and the boat crew was great. Definitely a tour to take!

Review by: Jane N, United Kingdom	October 2006
Great trip to see the whole island in a day. Tour guides were very informative and a great laugh.

Review by: Audrey D, United Kingdom	September 2006
Excellent way to see a lot of the island in a short time - my only negative comment would be that a lot of time was wasted on the lunch stop as the service was very slow. Swimming with turtles was amazing.