Very clean,lovely staff,food not that bad for an all inclusive
budget hotel. One tip, get to the beach early for a free lounger
leave about noon,leave towel lounger, return mid afternoon
because you will be fed up with the noise, the sellers and the
cruise line tourists who are sold trips to the beach,you are of
course not told of this at your welcome meeting. Also the
loungers allocated to the hotel are also sold to the trippers!!!!
Seen it !!!!!.
You will need to leave hotel at night for a change, go to Crocs bar,
turn left out of hotel, 100yds on left. Open till early hours unlike
hotel which shuts down at 11.
PS. I paid 799 for two weeks just about right dont pay more.

Stayed at the Tropical Escape from 29 Sept to 13 Oct 2006. The Hotel is small, but that worked well for us, it was re assuring seeing the same faces each day, but still not be in each others way. The Staff were extremely friendly, even getting up to join in the karaoke, (that would be Noel, a lovely guy). The food was very good and also plentiful. The entertainment was a bit hit and miss, but even that did not seem to matter, we had such good company. The best entertainment for us had to be on the last evening The Drag Artists, even the staff got up to dance, Margaret, Ivor and Mr Frankie Brown, the manager no less.

Regarding the staff, Noel the bar man was a favourite of ours, he has a dry humour, Sandra and Yvette, for their patience as we worked through the list of cocktails, and listening patiently whilst we made up a few of our own, and not forgetting IVOR who works in the restaurant, so helpfull and thoughtful. Our rooms were cleaned on a daily basis, and towels changed as often as we requested, beach towels and all.

For those of you who read these reviews (as we ourselves did), just a few things to comment on. The birds, yes they do fly in, but honestly, it's hardly Hitchcocks 'Birds'. We had a poolside room, (very quiet), so to be fair cannot comment of the roadside rooms.

Regarding the road, yes, it is busy, but to be fair again, the motorists stopped as soon as they saw us to let us cross, and were in our opinion, more curtious, than our own over here. The Beach is just wonderful, and mostly used by hotel guests. To those of you who are off on your hols to the Tropical Escape, relax its a great little hotel, with good food, plenty of choice, warm friendly staff, and excellant value for money.

We would like to thank ALL the staff at the Tropical Escape for such a warm and friendly welcome, and for contributing to our fantastic memories of Barbados

Also a big thankyou to everyone else who stayed there at the same time as us, everyone was so friendly, a special mention to a couple of lovely groups, Tom, Jack, Irene,Sylvia, HRH Queen Violet, and not forgetting Dorothy. Thanks to Stuart and his girls and their families................ Beverley and Mark (shrek)

What can I say, I have just come back from the best holiday ever. Tropical Escape hotel is rated a 3 star but we got 5 star service. The hotel is cleaned on a daily basis and when I say hotel I don't just mean the rooms the pool, bar,reception and dinning room area were all cleaned every day. The food was fantastic and I am a fussy eater (watch your waste lines). I have to say a big hello to juliet our rep at the hotel she was great, so helpful and very cheerfull, thanks for a great day out on the catamaran Juliet (it's a must for everyone) There was 9 of us on this holiday ages 6 to 60 and all of us enjoyed our holiday and we all will be going back. You do have to cross a road to go to the beach but it's not a problem and the drivers do stop for you.Now when you get on the beach WOW ! it is paradise and usually the only people on it are the hotel guests and a few local boys who are very freindly and no trouble. There isn't much to do at night although they do have entertainment on in the bar downstairs but most people sat outside on the pool terrace and had a drink . Because the Hotel is small everyone got to know each other very quickly which was really nice, "HELLO STEPH AND DARREN hope work wasn't to depressing when you got back". Anyway I could go on and on about this hotel and I wouldn't have a bad thong to say. I will post some photos at a later date. GREAT VALUE FOR MONEY!

me and my husband have just come back from tropical escape,and i would just like to say that this hotel is not a 3-4 star it is more like 2-3 star. I am not complaining about my holiday at all, far from it, my best holiday yet and it really boils down to everyone who stayed in the hotel the same time as us. if your expecting top class i would advise you not to stay here but all i can say is you get what you pay for. there are still some building work going on bang across from the hotel and unfortunatly for us we were stuck in a room bang facing it. i had to keep my curtains closed all day and night as the workers could see right through my room. the noise was unbeleilable from 7am till 5pm. as for the reps, they were useless, we went on a charity catamaran on sunday and one of our reps hardly spoke to us as she was covorting all day with her bejan boyfriend which we thought was very unprofessional of her. the other one just did not want to help anyone, she just told us what we wanted to hear but got nothing back from her. useless they were.
the food was excellent,but it would have been better if there were more buffet nights than a-la-carte. as when everyone ate there meal on a- la-carte nihjt they were still hungry and we could not go for second helpings.
what out for the beach boys as they don,t care about who is around they will argue and fight all day long and watch out for a guy named smiley he can turn nasty with holiday makers too.
the trips were fab, the beach was fab and weather we could not ask for better weather. your holiday is what you make of it yourself, as we did and we could,nt have enjoyed it as much as we did without all the nice people who shared the hotel the same time as us.we all ended up being like a holiday family.
i also would like to say i will not be booking with first choice again as the reps really put me off.
thanks for taking time out to read my letter and i hope it has helped you for your holiday. oh before i forget,don,t expect good entertainment.(it,s rubbish).