Shades

We stayed at Shades all of March 2024. Our fourth time. There isn’t any place better for us. Around here, you would have to pay several times more to get this. The west coast, north from Bridgetown all the way to Speightstown, is where most posh resorts are: Sandy Lane, Colony Club, Coral Reef Club, Glitter Bay, …. Yet, there’s nowhere we’d rather be than Shades at Payne’s Bay. All the others lie along the shore, set up between the ocean and the north-south highway. They are posh, and they have their beaches. But Shades has beauty, quiet, and an intimate scale - 7 apartments in two buildings - and set in its own gardens, with a swimming pool, even a gym, and monkeys and chickens roaming through. It’s not on the beach; instead, it’s 2 minutes from Payne’s Bay beach up Layne’s Road in a Bajan neighbourhood. It’s special, secluded, and authentic.