The Caribbean’s Best Bed & Breakfasts

By: - October 7th, 2014
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Sweetfield Manor, Barbados

Set up a Bajan base in this seven-bedroom, antique-filled Brittons Hill plantation house where green monkeys scamper through the lush estate and guests feel warmly welcomed, never smothered.


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