Cobblers Cove

Cobblers Cove is the most amazing hotel, we were there for Christmas & New Year 2025. Joanna Roterberg (General Manager) was ever present, her attention to detail with all the activities organised over this festive season was amazing. Staff were always happy to help nothing was too much trouble. Food was delicious especially the Beef Tenderloin OMG so good!!! The Spa therapist Cara definitely knew how to relax us with perfect massages/facials. Honestly this was a perfect holiday and we would like to thank the incredible Joanna & all her staff who were a credit to the hotel.

Cobblers Cove is one of the few family-owned hotels left on the island, and the low-key family vibe is something that we absolutely love. All of the things we want are included - but the flexible dining options give us plenty of opportunity to get out and about on the island. Joanna has created such an amazing team - including the wonderful Gregory (who ensures we want for nothing around the pool), Pearson and Virgil (Bar tenders extraordinaire), Bradley and the team (watersports) and the wonderful restaurant staff including Hazel and Ricardo - and everyone I have left out, you are all wonderful. We would highly recommend this hotel, and have already re-booked :)

My first time at Cobblers Cove with my father & I was extremely disappointed with the experience. My father has been staying at the hotel over the years and was keen to introduce me. Only visited for lunch but we were made to feel very unwelcome. Every request we made felt like a chore for the staff & they could not wait to see lunch time guests exit the property. We will not be back. Sad times

Having stayed in Barbados previously on 4 occasions, we feel we are getting to know the island and the high level of service the island offers, with just a very few exceptions. However, cutting to the chase - Cobblers Cove was perfection in our opinion, location, rooms, gardens, breakfast over looking the sea, but most of all the staff are the best we have ever experienced - lovely, helpful, and genuinely want you to have a great time and your expectations met. I cannot recommend them enough, you wont be disappointed if you pick Cobblers Cove Hotel... Thank you again for hiking me recover my AirPods, and for running such a top class resort... it was a total pleasure staying with you, you provided everything we wanted and had hoped for (including the traditional afternoon tea), and am very happy to provide the best level of review.

We visited Cobblers Cove on Christmas Day as we could see they were offering what sounded like a delicious Christmas buffet. When we first arrived and went to the bar, it was very sweet and quaint, and we had a really lovely cocktail, and listened to the Christmas Day band singing. It then went downhill. We were seated at a table which was originally for four people, but they amended it to be 2 x 2 person tables. After about 20 minutes waiting to get served, we were told that we would need to move tables. It took them an hour in total to move us to another table. The manager was good when we had a quiet word with her about this long wait and brought us some champagne to apologise. The new table didn’t have any Christmas crackers on it, unlike all the other tables. It took us asking three times for them to be brought. When our starter finally arrived - well after an hour after our booking time - our ‘caprese salad’ was a bowl of 90% undressed tomato, with 1 slice of mozzarella on top. It was quite disappointing. Our main course, however, was where the main disappointment set in. The buffet consisted of turkey, beef, ham, rice and halved new potatoes. No green veg, no gravy etc. There was also a salad station, except each bowl was just filled with what seemed like canned veg that had been emptied into bowls (ie sweetcorn). There were a lot of flies around the food, and my wife’s beef was inedible, it was so stringy and fat. My turkey was from the very end of the bird and felt like they just didn’t want to bring out a new turkey - it was disappointing, and dry due to the lack of gravy. The desserts were fine. Upon leaving, we noticed they hadn’t charged us for the cocktail we had. We assumed this was because of the very poor experience. However we were then approached by the barman and made to pay for it. At this point we decided to let one of the management team know about our poor experience. We were refunded for what we paid on the day, minus the cocktail and our sizeable deposit. The partial refund is why we have scored this 2/5 rather than 1/5. The reason that we are rating this so low is because the expectations for a Christmas lunch are high, and we had chosen Cobblers Cove out of the myriad of choices we were presented with. From what we were being charged, we had certain expectations about the quality of the experience, and those were completely missed.

Our visit to cobblers cove was amazing, our arrival experience was just like home from home, this fabulous old colonial hotel has been maintained beautifully, the gardens are an oasis of calm and tranquility, our room was ready on arrival and finished to an exceptional standard, our suite was a great size, well proportioned with plenty of hanging space and hangers, a fully stocked mini bar with fresh milk and water. Lovely comfortable sun loungers, fresh towels ,very clean pool area. The new is bar is beautiful ,Virgil, Pearson and co, make the bar a fun place to hang out, great cocktails, unfortunately there are new rules not allowing the sweeteners in the cocktails. A very pretty restaurant, prime ocean front location, staff very friendly and attentive to our every need, all meals are a leisurely affair, as it should be, don’t expect to be in and out in minutes. The management are very hands on, friendly and helpful. For those who want a luxurious vacation Cobblers is a wonderful hotel.