An oceanfront hotel in Barbados for a family vacation getaway doesn’t have to be on the popular west coast or the south coast for that matter. You should take a close look at what the wilder and rugged Atlantic east coast of Barbados has to offer for an affordable getaway vacation for all the family.

Bathsheba is a fishing village, and a getaway hideaway for those people in the know. No big touristy resorts, just small family run hotels, boarding houses and restaurants, with a few rum shops into the bargain. It has breathtaking white sand beaches, with surf running, so not suitable for swimming but excellent for surfing. Also the Bathsheba Pools which are shallow inshore pools carved out of old coral, where you can sit and cool off whilst enjoying a rum punch as the tide comes in swirling around you, and this is an attraction not to be missed.. Be careful however as the sea here has nasty undercurrents and rip tides that can sweep you off your feet.

The New Edgewater Hotel is really more of a rustic inn than a hotel, but it is certainly oceanfront and is a really charming family vacation getaway based on a building that dated back over 200 years.

It has twenty  rooms and suites having recently been renamed and reopened under its new name, whilst still retaining some of the older features like the hand carved mahogany furniture.

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