Folkestone Marine Park & Visitors' Centre

It is still very much a nice picnic and relaxing spot for the whole family on a bank holiday and any day for that matter, with a play park for the kids, a recreational area for your morning or evening exercises. Nice boardwalk stroll along the beach in the evening to catch the lovely sunsets, popular sunbathing and snorkeling spot too with bathrooms and showers on site, the marine park section was closed on my visit but worth checking out.

Absolutely loved this place! I liked both beach and snorkeling even better than at Carlisle bay. The artificial reef harbors plenty of tropical fish, stingrays and tapping come even up close to the beach and if you swim a little bit out (look for the tour boats) you can easily find the seagrass patches where you can see sea turtles. If you want to take a tour you better bring cash ($50-60, US Dollars). A few nice lunch options are around as well - we loved Calma Beach Club. The best snorkeling is just in front of the club.

We had a little guided tour of the museum / aquarium for a nominal price (I can't remember but very low). This area has showers, change rooms, toilets, concession, and some amazing snorkeling if you swim out to the reef. Overall, it's an excellent spot right off the highway in Holetown. It's also right next to the oldest church in Barbados (worth checking out).

Great place for swimming and snorkelling, we saw many fish near the coast. Toilets are clean, there’s changing room and shower outside. Parking was easy today but it was not busy.

One of the famous beaches along the West Coast. With a lifeguard station, boardwalk, restrooms & amenities shop it has everything you could need, include a wonderful beach.

Wow, what a lesson in Barbadian history. Our driver stopped for us to tour and gave us the history of the cast bell. So the story goes, the bell was cast by the same foundary as the liberty bell and used before the liberty bell was made. The bell unfortunately had a failed mounting system and fell from the bell tower and cracked. After a full repair was done we understand it never sounded the same as originally intended...so a replica was made and installed with the origional bell on display at one of the entrances to the church.

Beautiful place to go snorkeling for free (with your own gear). We borrowed two life jackets from High Tide Watersports and we loved looking at all the fish and coral. The visitor centre had friendly staff, and we paid 5BBD each (by card) to have a tour around their marine exhibition and aquarium. Our tour guide was quite uncomfortable however, he simply showed us the room and said, "Let me know if you have any questions", and when we did ask questions, he mumbled under his breath so we couldn't hear. Despite this, it was worth the money to see all their specimens! I can confirm the lifeguard tower will hold your items for you while you swim out to sea.

Beautiful beach, very quiet in early December