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A-C Angler Apartments, Clarke’s Rd 1, Derricks, T/F 4320817, http://www.barbadosahoy.com/angler Traditional Bajan-style architecture, with colourfully painted verandas. Restaurant serves freshly made Caribbean vegetarian and seafood dishes and will prepare special meals on request. Some home-grown vegetables. Owners live on the premises and priority is given to service, which is friendly and informal, and family orientated. Under 100 m from the cove with good snorkelling. Dive or yoga packages can be arranged. A-C Calypso Rentals, Paynes Bay, T 4331787, http://calypso-rentals.com Run by Gay Taaffe (Scottish), who can be contacted at Bombas Beach Bar, or book through the internet. She specializes in simple budget apartments and villas on the west coast from US$395 per week in summer (for two people), to US$2,400 per week in winter for a villa on the beach sleeping eight. Some are on the beach and some are as much as a five-minute walk away from the water. Calypso Cottage is right by Bomba’s Beach Bar, a bright turquoise two-bedroomed chattel house with colour-washed floors and painted furniture tucked away behind Calypso Villa on the beach at Paynes Bay. It costs US$500-700 a week. Jonkanoo is a sweet cottage on the sand, a colourful renovated wooden house with two bedrooms and a large veranda near Speightstown on Mullins Bay, for US$650-885 a week. These places have real character and are highly individual. Get together a group for best value. Upper Allamanda sleeps eight, US$725-825 a week, 100 yds from the beach, no frills. At the other end of the scale, Chimborazo Great House, in the middle of the island up in the hills with a view of both the Caribbean and the Atlantic, can be rented for US$450-650 a day, complete with daily maid and local cook, although car hire and a gourmet cook are available by negotiation. This is a very special getaway, with its own orchard of tropical fruit trees, horizon pool and amazing views. The 18th-century coral stone, three-bedroomed house in four acres is the perfect introduction to gracious country living. A-C Clement and Laurel Armstrong, Mango La, Speightstown, St Peter. T 4222703. Clement and Laurel rent rooms or a whole two-bedroomed chattel house just a few minutes from the sea and convenient for all the shops. Discounts for long-term rentals if you want to stay more than three weeks. Nothing fancy, typically Bajan furnishings and decor (the TV has only one channel). The electrical appliances may break down, but Laurel is on hand to sort things out.
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