Party Time at St Lawrence Gap In Barbados
It was a rainy Monday night in Christ Church in Barbados and the wife and me were in the mood to escape the house for a few hours. If you want to experience good nightlife in Barbados, the place to head too, is of course St Lawrence Gap.
For those of you that have never been to Barbados, St Lawrence Gap is 1.3 km stretch of road in the parish of Christ Church, where you will find a diverse array of hotels, apartments, shops, bars, nightclubs, restaurants and fast food outlets. If you want to party in Barbados St Lawrence Gap is the place to go.
What I like about St Lawrence Gap is that if you don’t like a particular bar or the look of a restaurant you only have to walk a few meters and you will find another one to choose from.
When I was in Barbados last year getting married I stayed at the Southern Palms Hotel on the Gap for 3 weeks, so I have sampled what quite a few of the establishments on St Lawrence Gap have to offer. I must admit some of them were amazing, some were great, some were mediocre and two so called restaurants were memorable for all the wrong reasons, they were probably two of the worst places I have ever eat at in my entire life.
To get to St Lawrence Gap we decided to walk down to the main road and get a ZR. The rain had stopped and it wasn’t too hot. It seemed like a good idea to have a wee stroll before we eat, and we didn’t think the walk would be too much of a problem, it doesn’t seem that far when you are driving it. What can I say apart from that it isn’t too much fun walking at night in Barbados without pavements, especially when it has been raining. It isn’t fun stepping into a puddle up to the middle of your shinbone!
We eventually made it to the main road after about 30 minutes walking and as usual you can always rely on a ZR to turn up very quickly. For once the ZR wasn’t being driven by a maniac, and they never even had loud music blaring out. They had the news on!
The ZR dropped us at the entrance to the Gap, for $3BDS for the pair of us, which represents real value for money, especially when you make it to your destination in one piece! It was only about 8pm and things were fairly quiet.
Our first port of call was a place called Jungles Café, we grabbed couple of stools at the bar with a good view of the band, which were two old English hippies, playing the typical songs that you will always find them playing such as the Eagles, They asked for requests and I said Oasis and they suddenly became deaf, I should have known that Oasis were bit too modern for the old hippies. Never the less they were good musicians and singers and did a good job.
We were almost tempted to have something to eat at Jungles Café; we watched some guy eating a delicious looking pizza at the bar, which was almost as big as him. It was a good bar for a few drinks, it was a nice and relaxing place with a good atmosphere. It was good to be in a bar where the staff are well mannered and provide good service, as any visitor to Barbados will be aware this isn’t always the case. The prices aint too bad either, it was $60BDS for 3 Pina Coladas and 3 Banks Beers.
It was now time to eat and those drinks had built up a real hunger, we had decided that we would eat at the Mexican restaurant called Café Sol, which was fortunately only a few metres further along the Gap. We knew the food would be good, as we had been there numerous times over the years.
When we arrived at Café Sol it was looking real busy, which wasn’t good news as we were real hungry. The waitress asked if we wouldn’t mind waiting at the bar until a table became free, she said it shouldn’t take too long. Thankfully she was correct, we hadn’t event drank half of our drink and we were shown to a table, where we quickly ordered our food.
The waitress came back and said she would wait until 10pm which was happy hour before she would put our drinks through the till, which meant 2 drinks for the price of one, how could we refuse her request.
Again it was another good meal provided by this Mexican restaurant, it cost us $140 for 3 courses each and drinks, which wasn’t too bad at all. I know back home in the UK that Barbados is perceived as being a fairly expensive place to eat, drink and party in. I can put that theory to rest right now, that it is probably on a par with Scotland, which is my home country. I also lived in London for 7 weeks before I moved to Barbados, and I would say that here is defiantly a lot cheaper to eat, drink, party and to be merry in.
We headed to an open-air bar further along the Gap for one last drink before we headed back home. It was now just past midnight and it was time to leave the serious partying to the youngsters. It took us about 1 minute to locate a taxi driver, who took us home for the very fair price of $30.
St Lawrence Gap provided an excellent night out, what I really like about the Gap is that unlike certain other countries in the world, such as certain party regions in Spain and some of the Greek Islands, is that you never come across groups of drunken louts causing mayhem.
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the lack of sidewalks is a major pain in barbados. i remember while there living maybe 15 minutes walk from work but having to take a zr because it was just too risky walking with no sidewalks and guard walls right in the road.
The lack of pavements in Barbados is a real nightmare, and walking on roads at night without pavments is not something I would recommend to anybody. You are not joking when you say it’s risky!
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