{"id":841,"date":"2013-07-10T16:54:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/?p=841"},"modified":"2013-07-12T15:24:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T19:24:59","slug":"barbados-featured-in-10-tropical-summer-paradises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/barbados-featured-in-10-tropical-summer-paradises\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbados featured in 10 Tropical Summer Paradises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reader&#8217;s Digest (Canada) recently featured Barbados in its list of <strong>10 Tropical Summer Paradises<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"iframe-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PtJbKKtwGLI?rel=0\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PtJbKKtwGLI\">Barbados Ranked as Top Tropical Paradise by Reader&#8217;s Digest Travel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-677 alignright\" alt=\"Beautiful Crane Beach, Barbados\" src=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/crane-beach-barbados-300x216.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/crane-beach-barbados-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/crane-beach-barbados.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The article offered great insights for travelers looking to head off to the tropics for a summer of fun in the sun. Barbados made the list in part because of our wonderful summer festival <strong>Crop Over<\/strong>. The festival began as a celebration of the end of the sugar cane season and has evolved into a cultural extravaganza of good times, music, art, craft, food and the grand finale the carnival parade known as Grand Kadooment.<\/p>\n<p>As wonderful as it is, Crop Over is just one reason to visit Barbados in summer. Being outside of the peak tourism season (mid December to mid April), rates at <a href=\"http:\/\/barbados.org\/stay.htm\">hotels, guest houses and vacation rentals<\/a> are typically much lower with several properties offering summer specials. Local restaurants also have great deals with 3-course meals at oceanfront restaurants as low as US$35. The beaches are also less crowded during the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being in the rainy season, most summer days see plenty of sunshine. The showers cool things down a bit and create tropical blooms across the island.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-827\" alt=\"Barbados activities\" src=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/barbados-cruise-activities.jpg\" width=\"585\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/barbados-cruise-activities.jpg 585w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/barbados-cruise-activities-300x76.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Besides the gorgeous tropical beaches, there are lots of summer activities to fill your days in Barbados&#8230;. swimming with friendly sea turtles, exploring the ocean depths on a submarine, touring our World Heritage Site, ziplining over tree tops and of course enjoying the best Crop Over carnival activities.<\/p>\n<p>So add Barbados to your &#8216;To Do&#8221; list the summer&#8230; we look forward to seeing you!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readersdigest.ca\/travel\/world\/10-tropical-summer-paradises?id=5\">Read the full Reader&#8217;s Digest article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader&#8217;s Digest (Canada) recently featured Barbados in its list of 10 Tropical Summer Paradises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,8],"tags":[13,266,163,265],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}