This feels like something no other travel reviewer would bother to make a video about and that’s why I love it so much

Don't forget, both Sandy Lane and Coral Reef, though expensive, are independently owned and, in the latter case, family run. The owners have invested their time and money in Barbados and have contributed enormously to local employment and the local economy over many years, even if guests just stay in the hotel. I'm not sure it's fair to say they don't offer a true Bajan (not Barbadian) experience.

Random off the beaten path reviews is exactly what makes you stand out from other reviewers. Just wanted to show the love as always and appreciate you for all the legwork!

I absolutely loved this review. My family, friends, husband, and in-laws are all from Barbados (I'm a 1st generation Canadian [my parents moved to Canada before growing their family]). There is a lot of people that live on the island that go to this Hilton for a staycation, to celebrate milestones, birthdays at their restaurants and is truly appreciated by the Barbadian people. Thank you so much for sharing your honest thoughts but also reiterating the fact that Barbadians do reap the benefits of this hotel being on that small island.

Dude, good lord. This is the type of travel content I've always dreamed of. Very personal, real, and honest- yet equally as remote and hard to reach. Most videos feat. far away places lose that sense of personability or have overtly fortunate hosts I can't seem to relate to. Casey Neistat used to scratch this itch for me, but now Bright Sun Films & travels are easily my 2 favorite KZfaq channels. high praise.

Hilton Gold status is actually a really good perk - I get it through my credit card too, and I’ve had loads of benefit out of it. Even with the breakfast perk, usually in reality its not just restricted to continental breakfast, which makes it worth a decent amount of money daily. And plenty of times I’ve ended up upgraded, with lounge access etc. This seems like a great value, solid quality hotel. Honestly, 90% of the time that’s what I’m looking for - boutique can be great, but rarely does it really live up to the hype (or price).

Wow, this room is legitimately nicer than the Hilton Niagara Falls at literally a fraction of the price. Makes the Hilton Niagara Falls even more embarrassing.

Love these travel reviews boss keep on travelling

This is INSANE. I am on the Disney fantasy and I just stopped at Barbados 2 days ago and was IN THIS HOTEL. What are the odds??? As always, another fantastic video! Absolutely love the content and thought this was just a little crazy so I had to comment haha.

Just want to say how happy I am you started this channel. The effort and history you put in far exceeds the standard travel vlogger's.

Why do I like this channel more than your main lol

I would recommend you try the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Very similar vibe to this one. I went their last year and was surprised at how nice it was. Would highly recommended the Hawaiian Village, and it wasn’t too expensive as well.

I wish more hotel reviews on YT were this well-researched, well-edited and informative - not to mention succinct! Just what we were looking for, when deciding whether to book this resort.

Must be a tropical thing with the open air architecture, in Malaysia where part of my family is from it's super common and basically the norm

Speaking of open-air check-in areas, the lobby of the Grand Wailea in Maui is a great example of that. You get ocean views and a nice breeze there

These videos are so nice! I am not even interested in visiting most of the places you review, but the way you present the history and evolution of the place, the little interesting details like the open air architecture bit that most reviewers would just forgo to put a montage of them on the beach. Also the shot compositions are really good :3

Really liked your point about how the hotel being owned by the people making it more connected to the island than the decor of others, and always enjoy hearing your reviews. Writing this from the cheapest hotel in Copenhagen which was far less than 250 dollars a night though 😂

Great review!! I cant get enough of your videos.

I can't stop watching this channel can you please make every youtube video I watch?

Another video from my home country! Watching this from the Halton area in Canada and feeling somewhat homesick. Thanks for visiting and I hope you had a wonderful time!

Love this review. Stayed here in February 2019 and loved the breakfast on property and lunch by the pool. Only had dinners off property. We were in the other tower overlooking the bay and the ceilings in the room were double height was stunning to have that high of ceilings. Loved the open air of the hotel like you mentioned. I did enjoy walking the beach to the south as it goes quite far and is all public. But you are spot on with having to walk through the parking lot to get to the beach to the west. When were were there they talked about the pool being renovated and the poolside restaurant being majorly expanded and upgraded but I guess that haven’t happened. I’m sure Covid paused that.

I love the way the old one looked before they made the new one

Love to see family owned hotels, love your videos there’s so much information there, thanks for all your hard work.

Brought to mind my childhood Disney land equivalent, the Hilton Waikoloa. They had amazing kamaaina rates, and often when 1 family would stay where, they would have the kids of 3+ families tagging along 😂. There was water slides, lagoons, boats, a train, dolphins! The islands public schools would get subsidized trips to the resort’s dolphin quest in the 5th grade. Once in a lifetime experience. I hope one day you make it out to the big island of Hawaii. There’s so much history and natural beauty. I miss the night sky and my trips up to summit to watch the sunset from 14k ft, under that shadow of telescopes.

Btw- it’s super smart to film for both channels in the same trip. I’m a huge fan of all your work. Thanks for sharing.

This is hyper-specific but I am in LOVE with that standing lamp in the room.

Props to you for dropping the benefits of the credit card without going into a whole sales pitch, and absolutely no referral links in the description either!

Staying here next week in the same room type. Very excited. Thanks for the review!

Great review!

you adding in the AUD prices feels so nice. thanks !

The balcony views are amazing!

The value review, exactly what I wanted to see.

I love this channel! You’re fantastic at reviewing

Your reviews are the best, seriously

Watching this just a few days after the video on the Niagara-Falls-Suite-Disaster is really fun, what a difference! I guess you got here almost everything you had wished for there!

Oh my god I love these videos

I would like to see you make a revue on more historic hotels. I am particularly interested in the Waldorf Astoria in New York City because of its history and I feel like the Plazza is overdone. Or the Palmer House in Chicago because I use to live near Chicago, and it always seemed like a nice place to stay. There's also the Drake The congress the Warwick Allerton and the Hilton on Michigan Avenue which all look very nice to me.

Nice find!

Just gorgeous!

Those oil storage tanks, or whatever they are, next to the Hilton really is the cherry on top of this amazing property 🍒

Would love to see you do a dive on the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, WV.

This feels like an awesome vancation

The Hyatt Grand Reserve Puerto Rico has this similar design where almost all the common areas are open air. Would love to see you visit and review it sometime soon.

I love open air hotels. I stayed at a hilton in puerto vallarta and it was amazing. Beach was rocky tho. We never went into the gulf of mexico

Great video. True property appears to be lots of tired concrete with landscaping that is not well cared for or pruned. Yes a good bargain for the island, but not a beautiful hotel. Thank you for posting this!

You should do a review on Mont-Saint-Michel in France. It’s an amazing looking place!

They put more love into this than cruise lines put into their cruise ships. They plop some things down and might add some good stuff here and there, but they need to take notes on what hotels are doing and do what they do on land… just on water. Honestly good video also!

Carlisle Bay is awesome because you can swim with the sea turtles and rays! You don't even need to sign-up for a tour. Just wait for a tour boat to arrive and then swim out to hang around them. Get yourself a Cuzz's Fish sandwich (cutter) and a Banks beer on the way back to the hotel.

next time you're in the Caribbean come to my home Dominica and check out either Jungle bay or Secret bay resort.

@5:00 - Mount Gay rum is some fine rum. I prefer either that or Meyers. It's reasonably priced also.

Nice. Good to know there is something affordable and not a dive.

Great video. You should have some sort of spreadsheet of all the place you visit rating everything. Kinda like Doug Demero does with his car videos.

Great video,this hotel is so close to the best beach in Barbados,Brighton Beach

Hurricane season is usually not as bad in Barbados because of it’s location in the Caribbean. You can still go and enjoy (you may face some heavy rainfall for a hour or so but the sunshine quickly comes back). Prices go down in August and it is still a great time to go.

Thanks for the review. Your video on the Paradise debacle was interesting. Distance from the airport to the Barbados Hilton isn't 25 miles. The island is only 14 miles wide east to west. The Hilton is about 25 minutes drive from the Barbados airport however. The Barbados Hilton and Sandy Lane hotel are nowhere near the same class of hotel. Almost all hotels on the island are open air receptions like the Hilton. Only a few of the newer ones are air conditioned at reception eg the Courtyard Mariott near to the Hilton. You got lucky with that room upgrade. I'm Hilton gold as well from traveling the Caribbean and staying at Hilton hotel brands frequently. You should do a review on the Hilton Trinidad if you're ever in that country. It's, ummm.... interesting.

Well done!🎖 (Come to Australia - & review some of our hotels, Shopping Malls, abandoned businesses - etc.!)😎

It sounds dumb but I'd love a version of this where it's just the best places to stay if you're on a business trip

Viewing from Barbados 🇧🇧

can you review more disney cruise ships on your youtube channel i love your cruise ships review ?

What a lovely ~~JebScore~~ JakeScore. To those who know it feels obvious, maybe adjust the wording/intonation if that wasn’t the intention

Love it! Would have thought value would have been much higher after your commentary and the price.

make me want to go there

Have you ever done a roundup video where you quickly spotlight all hotels given a certain score? I would love to easily compare this 40/50 against other 40/50s.

That open air lobby must be hell to clean. It’s a cool feature though 😹

Was there entertainment on property? I booked this hotel for January

Great video as usual, but damn that hotel looks grim.

Went to their hotel in Las Vegas this summer. The tv quality was bad and there was no mini fridge.

Just to clarify , the Cliveden estate is owned by The National Trust. A company lease the house for a hotel, but do not own it.

It looks like the contemporary resort in Florida 😂

I didn't know that Barbados is not in North America

The original building was so cool looking. What a shame it was demolished and replaced by a generic boring design.

I wonder if prices will go up if the property ever sells to a large corporation...

I just want you to know Barbados is in North America 😂 but great review I would 100% want to stay there.

Nice review - definitely a lot of bang for the buck. You also get to support locals, which is a nice touch.

Would love to see more less reviewed properties like this!!

I wish I was Canadian and could be paid to travel to exotic locations.

Looks like a resort that would be popular with air-crews?

i like

La Cabane at the Hilton permanently closed at the end of June

hi i would like to youse your video in my blog.

That's insanely expensive! The Bangkok Hilton is $80/night!

I like that you are using your own clips not generic lazy clips. I find generic clip lazy dig creator.

Hopefully they'll match my Magnises card rewards.

Please go to Taiwan, im going in February and there is very few good videos on traveling there. Its a long shot but might as well ask

"Promosm" 👍

Everyone's loves seeing the best and the worst of resorts, hotels and trips, so you can dream and cringe (respectively), though the niche of resorts or hotels you'd actually stay at? That's a niche I hope you corner because it's definitely lacking

On a quest to watch all of the videos?

You really need to visit Aruba!!! Palm Beach and Eagle Beach are some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, Dutch architecture downtown. And it's affordable. Barbados is a dump compared to Aruba.

Isn’t Barbados part of North America?

I would get so very drunk here

Based socialist resort

AUD but no GBP?