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The 10 Best Small Hotels in Barbados for Perfect Beaches, Personal Service, and an Authentic Vacation

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The wind shifts just enough to flick the palm fronds, and you are walking a quiet beach at golden hour, the sea turning pewter and blue. This is the Barbados that small hotels unlock — intimate terraces for sundowners, staff who learn your name by the second morning, and neighborhoods where a bakery, a rum shop and a cove become your daily rhythm. The island feels larger when you stay smaller: more faces, more flavor, more time to linger. You check in through a doorway that feels like a friend’s house. Breakfast is a conversation, not a buffet. The staff points you to a fish fry this evenin...