We chose Treasure Beach for our first trip to Barbados on a recommendation and were really impressed. If you're looking for big, brash and flash it's not the place for you but if you want to really unwind and feel spoilt then book an Ocean or Pool View room. The suite was spacious and clean, staff were attentive. Hope we'll be back soon.

We booked Treasure Beach Hotel because we like "boutique size"hotels.We arrived,and shown to our rooms(we needed 2 as our 2 kids were with us,late teens early 20's)we were very disappointed.The shower in our room hadn't been cleaned properly! The sittingroom was very basic,with a rusted fold out bed,and uncleaned floor underneath! The entrance to our room was via what looked like a motel fire escape! It overlooked the laundry area. Some of the staff were not warm and welcoming at all. There were about 2 who were nice to us, but the rest gave us the impression that they resented life!We were paying $850 US a night per room! We could have rented an apartment 2 doors down for much less! Food very good at the hotel restaurant though,and the location was superb. In short,hotel too old,and badly renovated recently.The music was too loud at night.

Many times to Barbados, first time to Treasure Beach and what a find............ Don't tell anybody..... but this is THE BEST hotel in Barbados and probably the Caribbean. The location on Paynes Bay, the intimacy of its size, the boutique..y suites, the delicious, plentyful and fantastic food but primarily for the people. The Treasure Beach Team are the best I've come across in the hospitality business. You WILL remember their names too.
Leroy,Kirk,Enid, Helen, Carolyne,Osmand ( Samuel L Jackson look alike) Michael,Kevin,Vernon, Wayne, David, Everton,John,Carl (Baker), Phylis and of course Jason who runs the show.
Just perfect....well done to the Treasure Beach Team...you made it for us.

We'd been away from Treasure Beach for 29 years when we returned in December for two weeks -- with some trepidation, as we'd loved the hotel and the beach, and all else Barbados has to offer -- when we made our first trip from our then base in Moscow in the early '80s. We knew the Wards, who made such terrific hosts, had passed the hotel to other hands, and that new rooms had been added with the addition of a third floor. We worried that the changes might have deprived the hotel of some of the quiet, almost private atmosphere we'd liked so much on our first visit, and that there might be nobody left on the staff who we'd recognise.

We needn't have worried. The beach seemed a little narrower than we remembered, though whether that was a nostalgic illusion or the result of a great storm some years ago, we couldn't tell. There was, to be sure, quite lot of scattered debris from the reef at the water's edge that made for careful treading on the first few steps into the sea, but in all other respects it was the lovely white beach, and warm aquamarine sea, that we'd loved when our children were still knee-high.

And the hotel -- the uncrowded feel of it, with only 35 rooms; the immediate access to the pool, the restaurant, the beach, and the lush lawn with its loungers that overlook it, none of them more than 50 paces away from our "ocean view" suite; the old familiar faces (and greying hair!) among the staff; the excellent meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner; swift access by the gloriously cacophonous buses that run past the hotel every few minutes to Holetown and its boutiques and restaurants; and the warm welcome and good stewardship of Jason, the GM (along with his good-humoured tolerance of shopworn Pommy jibes about the Aussies!): all made for a terrific two weeks.

John Burns

From Jane Scott-Long: We made a very last minute booking, had to change our plans late, Debbie in reservations did a fabulous job accommodating us. Helen on arrival was very welcoming. Richard in the Bar makes a mean whiskey sour and Big John is one of the most charming men on the planet. Kirk and his team in the kitchen with their great meals kept us in every night -- even though we had booked B + B thinking we'd go out and try other well reviewed restaurants. In the end we only went off site once -- the tuna was the best we've ever had and Kirk's team lured us back again and again. Fabulous break all around, and we'll be back very soon.