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With high-quality, tax-free merchandise, excellent service by friendly and knowledgeable sales staff, and comfortable, air-conditioned stores, shopping in Barbados truly is just beyond your imagination! |
Barbados is certainly the right place for it: The duty free selection alone is extensive, from cashmere sweaters, gems and the world's finest china and crystal to electronic items, camera equipment and liqueur. The comfortable air conditioned stores, high quality tax free merchandise coupled with excellent service provided by friendly and knowledgeable staff makes shopping a pleasant experience at Barbados!
There are lots of great local finds, too. The booming clothing industry that emphasizes the tropical look. While local designers produce outstanding cosmopolitan one-of-kind apparel, there is also hand-painted and silk-screened clothing and T-shirts. In fact, Barbados' T-shirt industry is vibrant, high quality and excellent value for money.
The local crafts include mahogany carvings, basketry and jewellery as well as interesting curios and souvenir items. One can find some of the best rums around in a huge variety of colours, ages and processes.
The shopping doesn't get any better than Bridgetown where duty-free and local product shops engulf Broad Street, the main drag. It also has smaller shopping hubs and suburban malls in outlying towns.
The prices at the duty free shops of Barbados are 30 to 50% lesser than in Europe and North America. Visitors should make sure of having the passport or airline ticket with them when going for the duty free shopping. The packages can be delivered to the airport or sea port for the convenience of the visitors. Duty free shopping can be done online at Correia’s jewellery Store Ltd. A number of large departmental stores and duty free shops at the Broad Street in the Capital city of Bridgetown add more charm to the shopping experience. In addition to specialty stores such as jewellery stores there are several shopping malls offering a wide variety of products and services.
The smaller towns of Holetown in St.James and Speightstown in St.Peter feature craft shops and gift shops. Chattel Village shopping areas are becoming increasingly popular in the islands. The shops here are made in traditional chattel house style and selling souvenirs, gifts items, clothing and local arts and crafts. Such Chattel villages can be found at Holetown, St.James and St.Lawrence Gap, Christ Church.
Popular supermarkets on the south coast are the Big B Supermarket, Julie N Supermarket and the supermarkets on the west coast are Jordan’s supermarket, Super centre and Esso Auto mart.
Jewellery
Barbados offers an unmatched selection of the finest gold and silver jewellery imported from the leading jewel countries of the world. Diamonds and other precious stones are also imported and are available at highly competitive prices.
Visitors can ensure that you get the perfect stone from the experienced and knowledgeable gemologists. Correia’ s jewellery, cave shepherd, Colombian emeralds, Harrison’s , Mall 34 and Royal shop are some of the jewellery outlets of Barbados.
Pelican Village
Pelican village is an attractive and spacious shopping village offering the best of handicrafts. The village also provides an opportunity to see the Barbados’ craftsmen at work. This is the first stop for cruise visitors as they disembark at the harbor. Pelican Village on the outskirts of Bridgetown is the place to get local handicrafts including straw bags, wall hangings, batik, paintings, rum cakes, and much more!
The village is named after Pelican Island, which existed off Barbados before being incorporated into the deep water harbor. The village offers amenities such as restrooms and pay phones. The village has ample parking and is within easy reach of the west and south coasts
