Best Sustainable Hotels, Resorts and Eco Lodges in Barbados
Best Sustainable Hotels, Eco Lodges and Eco Friendly Stays in Barbados
The 4 best places to stay in Barbados are sustainable and all run Green Globe standards, farm to table kitchens and real energy and water savings. From the wild surf at Bathsheba on the east coast to the lively south coast at St. Lawrence Gap and Oistins these eco lodges, inns and beach resorts are top rated for low-impact eco friendly comfort that keeps guests coming back to an island that protects its fringing reefs as fiercely as its welcome.
How we decide the best place to stay in Barbados
Each top rated stay in Barbados is hand picked and checked for sustainability features.
What sets the Barbados list apart starts with ECO Lifestyle + Lodge on the wild east coast, which runs on a solar power off grid system, the first of its kind on the island, so a stay here is powered by the Barbados sun rather than the diesel grid.
We follow the food back to its source, and at The Atlantis Historic Inn that means a farm to table kitchen built on local sourcing, plating up fresh Bajan produce alongside the daily catch landed at the bay below the dining room.
We weigh up what each property gives back to the island, and the family run Butterfly Beach Hotel earns its Green Globe certification by planting its grounds with local species that draw in native wildlife.
We dig into the everyday details too, like Divi Southwinds Beach Resort backing up its low flow fixtures with proper water conservation and halving the chlorine in its pools, the sort of behind the scenes effort that rarely makes the brochure.
The eco lodge, heritage inn, resort and hotel on this list of best places to stay in Barbados have proven they are making a real effort to protect the island while taking care of its guests.
If Little England, with its coral shores set out alone in the Atlantic, has whetted your appetite for more, our guide to the best sustainable hotels across the Caribbean gathers the whole region in one place, or head west into the island chain to the eco stays of St Vincent and the Grenadines, further along to St Lucia and down to Grenada.
Top Picks, Where To Stay in Barbados
- ECO Lifestyle + Lodge: Green Globe, off grid, farm to table
- Divi Southwinds Beach Resort: Green Globe certified, solar powered
- The Atlantis Historic Inn: Solar powered, farm to table on the east coast
ECO Lifestyle + Lodge is a husband and wife owned, off grid boutique eco lodge perched above the surf at Bathsheba on the wild east coast, run by Kyle and Maryam Taylor and Green Globe certified.
It runs on a solar PV off grid system, the first of its kind on the island through an energy as a service partnership with Acceleron, with solar heated water, on site recycling and composting, and ECO Sky Water drawn from the air. Its genuine farm and sea to table kitchen earned the 2022 Environmental and Sustainability Award from the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association.
The Atlantis Historic Inn is a restored heritage inn perched above Tent Bay at Bathsheba that has welcomed guests since the 1800s, when the new east coast railway first opened up this stretch of shore.
It runs on an advanced solar power system and serves a farm to table kitchen built on fresh local Bajan produce and the daily catch landed at the bay below, sharing its emphasis on island sourcing with its sister restaurant The Fish Pot.
Divi Southwinds Beach Resort is a Green Globe certified beach resort on Dover Beach along the lively St.
Lawrence Gap on the south coast. It works to a full Sustainability Management Plan with low flow fixtures, expanded recycling and pool chlorine cut by half, alongside reef and coastline protection to safeguard the fringing corals that surround the island.
Butterfly Beach Hotel is a family run, Green Globe certified oceanfront hotel on Maxwell beach beside the fishing town of Oistins on the south coast.
It works to a Sustainability Management Plan focused on cutting energy, water and waste, with LED lighting, inverter air conditioning, in room recycling bins and grounds planted with local species to support native wildlife.
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Book Your Next Stay Consciously
Travel is a wonderful opportunity to connect with Mother Earth.
However, it is also frequently undermined by reckless development and disrespectful tourism practices.
This directory is a curated, verified list of hotels, lodges, and resorts that honour our planet and are led by visionary stewards of the environment.
From farm-to-table culinary experiences to dedicated ocean conservation efforts, such as marine protection and coral restoration, these establishments are redefining hospitality.
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