Bridgetown, Escape at Prospect Bay

stayed at Escape at Prospect Bay in Bridgetown in sept 04 for our 15th wedding anniversary it was our 1st time in Barbados and we had the time of our lives the hotel was perfect, food second to none, the local beer better than UK, the staff well what can I say fantastic nothing to much trouble, even went sea fishing and caught a barracuda. felt the staff were like our mates.

Good points, the people, view, facilities, food, location. Really enjoyable holiday at the Escape at Prospect Bay, Bridgetown April 2008.

The Escape Hotel is the friendliest hotel we have stayed in on the island. The staff do everything they possibly can to ensure you get the holiday you deserve. The food is superb in both the Seascape and Garden restaurant. The rooms are relaxing and have all the facilities you may need. I would thoroughly recommend this hotel to anyone. Well done to all the Escape staff. I class you all as dear friends now. See you again soon I hope.

Rude and unprofessional staff at Bridgetown Escape at Prospect Bay. The hotel restaurant was abysmal, the food poor quality often arriving cold and up to an hour late. The rooms were poorly lit and equipped. This is, by no stretch of the imagination, a four star hotel, a real disappointment.

Bridgetown Escape at Prospect Bay - The hotel is not in Bridgetown as the title suggests, it's on Prospect Bay on the island's west coast. Book and stay with Virgin Holidays, the clientele is British and the hotel is British owned. The guest services lady is English and one of the most fun and friendly people you could hope to meet, plus she makes sure that everything goes according to plan. The food is superb and plentiful - watch out for the home made biscuits for afternoon tea! A great find - we will be back.

I had such a good time at Escape at Prospect Bay, I was made to feel really welcome by all staff including the Virgin staff. I had a fab time, so much so that we returned the year after, its a really nice place for everyone. The resort is fab and the beach is cool. Food is fantastic and to top it all off, the weather was super.

ALL 13 OF US LOVED OUR STAY!

Please please please do not believe all the negative comments written by some travellers to Escape at Prospect Bay. Ok, so they are entitled to there own opinion and people do have bad experiences sometimes, but as a seasoned traveller to Barbados I can highly recommend the Escape Hotel. 13 may be an unlucky number for some people, but not for us - we loved it.

As with any hotel there are friendly and, should we say not so friendly, staff, but it's easy to work out who is and who isn't and who to avoid etc - the same as you would back home.

Yes, there were some occasions where things weren't quite as you wanted, but comment on it in an adult and PATIENT fashion and it gets dealt with.

Our party was split between the superior deluxe rooms in the main block (superb rooms, with a cracking sea view) and the spa rooms (again great rooms). Don't expect the Ritz when it comes to rooms, but do remember that it is Barbados and you only use them to sleep in and get ready to go out.

The Spa side of the hotel is great to catch the early sun and we tended to stay there until just after lunch, and then hit the beach to catch the sunset and get a drink at the rum shack.

The FREE water activities on the beach are also a bonus - snorkelling, kayaking, hobbies cat rides etc and you don't get too pestered by the locals - just be friendly and say no and they'll meander off. The FREE catamaran trip on the Thursday evening was also well worth booking.

The evenings at Escape were spent between the 2 restaurants. Seascape is good quality food with 5 nights being waitress service, one being a buffet and the other being a BBQ - very good food and we always enjoyed our meals. The Garden restaurants were superb, with lovely lovely food and very good service. YES, you have to book the restaurant you want to eat in, but NO it is not a pain as you can book for at least a week in advance.

The evening entertainment was basic, but what you made it - if you're prepared to get up and dance, then you'll enjoy it.

The After Hours bar is the place to go - on the Spa side of the hotel, open from 9pm - 1am (or a little later if you can twist Haydn and Wendell's arms!!), its air conditioned, there's a TV and a decent stereo.

Barbados is a chilled out laid back place and so are the people and that is the attitude you need to go with. Don't expect everything now, because it won't happen.

We would ALL definitely go back to this hotel and would recommend it to anybody travelling to Barbados as a good quality, well positioned, affordable hotel.

We had a fantastic time here (all 14 of us) and could not fault the hotel at all. The service from virgin and all the staff at the Escape was superb, and we could not have wished for a better holiday.

The hotel is all-inclusive with a buffet breakfast and lunch and a la carte most evenings in the main restaurant. There is also another restaurant, which is open for lunch and evening meals. The food in both restaurants is great and you could probably never eat the something twice on a two-week holiday. The drinks that are included in the all-inclusive package are great; the house wine was really drinkable, as was the house beer.

The beach is OK if a little small, however as all beaches on Barbados are public you only have to walk around the corner to find a perfect stretch of deserted sand. You can walk for quite a long way in both directions along the beach before you can go no further. If you walk to the right from the Escape's beach you will eventually reach a point were the sea reaches the cliff face. It is possible to wade through the water and reach the beach the other side and eventually reach Bridgetown (the capital) although you should be prepared for crabs large and small covering the rocks and at one point you will have to walk through a small cave waste deep in water with crabs crawling across the ceiling a couple of feet above your head (great fun).

We stayed in the deluxe rooms, which had the best view you could possible hope for. Some of our group stayed in the spa rooms, which although they did not have the view were just as nice as the deluxe rooms inside.

There is really very little not to like about the Escape and I would highly recommend this as a safe bet for a holiday to the Caribbean. It easily out does most accommodation in this price range.

As stated above we travelled with Virgin and the flights were excellent. Each seat had its own TV with around seven films playing at the same time. There were so few people on the plane (747) all fourteen of us could have sat at a window seat or slept across a row of three seats for the whole flight.

All in all a superb holiday and we will all be going back as soon as possible.