Crystal Cove Barbados A Tribute Portfolio All-Inclusive Resort

Joe Lees

Flawless 10/10. The whole island was incredible, let alone crystal cove. Watching a turtle give birth on the beach was an amazing memory for me. Crystal cove is the best hotel I've ever stayed in aswell. Thank you!

Shaun H

I visited Barbados for the first time in September 2023 with my mum, it was her second visit to the island. We had an amazing time. We received a surprise room upgrade to a sea view room when we checked in. We were greeted with punch and the staff were very friendly from the first moment. Special shoutout to Terence who took the time to check on me on a day I was a bit under the weather. Some say the rooms and hotel are dated, but I felt the place had a nice character to it. One night our AC broke and was fixed very quickly. The pools are small but they are great for taking a little break from the heat. The buffet breakfast was always pleasant and there were different options available each night for our evening meal. During the day there were options for lunch and the coffee/wine bar was also a great place to relax. I particularly liked the swim up/cave bar. There were a few bars at the hotel and there were plenty of delicious cocktail options and other drinks. The hotel is right on the beach and the live music at night time added to the atmosphere of the place. The whole place had a very chilled out feel to it. As the island is so small, all of our trips were within short travel distance from the hotel. Overall it was a great experience here. The staff at Crystal Cove could not do enough for us and I wish I could have stayed for longer.

Kevin Mclaughlan

Awful hotel!! Due to stay here for 4 nights but checked out after 1. Would have checked out the same day if we hadn't been travelling 9 hours to get there. This hotel is one of the worst I've stayed at and believe me invested in a lot of hotels.it is definitely not a 4-star hotel. The rooms are outdated,verging on dirty. Our bathroom had mould and the toilet didn't flush. All the staff were avoid of smiling and some came across rude. Everything seemed an effort. The food was abysmal.A real lack of choice and quality. The evening buffet was horrific.got to the point I didn't bother eating and my wife left most of hers.breakfast was no better. Checking in was another disaster.no warm welcome and a real poor first impression.the whole experience was terrible. When checking out 3 dats early after explaining why I did not even receive any type of apology at all.Absolutely shocking! I strongly advise staying somewhere else and don't waste your hard earned money on this place

Cole Montgomery

The resort is in a nice location. The views are beautiful. Our room was ok, and the bed wasn’t bad. The bathroom was also fine. The fridge was rarely stocked and it was a struggle to get water bottles. We had to repeatedly go to the nearby coffee shop to get small bottles are water and bring it back to our room. There are two restaurants. One is open for a breakfast buffet and also opened for a sit down dinner. The other restaurant is only open during lunch time and is a buffet. The food during breakfast and lunch was fine. However the food for dinner was not impressive. The portions were very small. I ordered a steak one night with shrimp and was extremely surprised about how small it was and how there was only four small shrimp with it. The beach is beautiful. There are two separate areas on a large beach where you can sit with some nice chairs that have shade. There is only a small area where you can swim without hitting the rocks. There are water sports that are also free. We went kayaking and had a blast and also went tubing which was very fun. The pools are nice and the cave bar was a cool spot. We had a great time, but there is room for improvement.

Angela Stead

We went back to c.c on the last day of May for two weeks all inclusive, it wasn't our first visit. We had been 3 other times once on our second honeymoon and twice with family. People might say how lucky we were but unfortunately because of our previous trips we had the hotel as it used to be absolutely beautiful. We were warned by posts people had put out the the hotel was tired and decided to over look them as we wanted to go back for a last time as my parents are elderly. Tired was a too polite word, they shouldn't be receiving guests in certain rooms in the hotel as we found when we we're relocated to a slightly better room that had a shower that worked and didn't flood the room. There wasn't a bath in this room which we weren't bothered about as the last rooms bath was taped and filled to within an inch of its sorry life. We were relieve when I put our clothes into the draws and they didn't drop through, as you've guessed like in the last room. The rugs by side of huge and extremely comfy bed were filthy and in desperate need of being replaced, so they spent the first week of our holiday out on the balcony ( had to bring back in as floor was very slippy) as one lady found she fell and ended up with her arm in plaster. We did make the most of out 5 person 25k holiday as my parents had paid for us, food was very good in reflections and drifters staff were a little rude and you almost felt you were putting them out at times. The few older members of staff that had been there over 20 yrs were lovely but the younger staff were really not doing the hotel any favours . Believe me I could go on and on, elegant have contacted us to follow up these issues, I can't call it a complaint as we didn't only pointed out problems. Loungers canopies broken , chairs in drifters broken, steps all around hotel chipped and you've guessed it broken. The hotel confirmed it is due for a refurbishment but they have put it back untill tamarind has been done. Premium prices for not a premium quality hotel, at the moment .