City overview
Barbados is the easternmost island in the Caribbean, best known for its calm west-coast beaches, British-inflected culture and rum heritage. Jewish life on the island runs entirely through Chabad of Barbados, led by Rabbi Eli and Sterna Chaikin since 2018 from Porters, St. James, just north of Holetown on the west coast. There are no kosher restaurants anywhere on the island — kosher food comes through Chabad's takeout and catering service, which delivers island-wide, and through packaged kosher-certified goods in the larger supermarkets. Chabad holds a minyan on Shabbat during the winter high season and hosts sit-down Shabbat meals open to visitors by reservation. There is no eruv anywhere in Barbados, and no mikvah currently in operation, though one is being built.
St. Nicholas Abbey and Steam Railway
Barbados · USD: Train Journey adult $70 / child $24; Train + Great House & Distillery $90 / $30; Train to Cherry Tree Hill $35 / $12; Cherry Tree Hill train + Great House & Distillery $62 / $18; Great House & Distillery alone $35 / $12. Confirm child eligibility and final tickets.
A 17th-century plantation house and working rum distillery, with a steam train running through the cane fields to a hilltop viewpoint.
Time needed
2 to 3 hours
Hours
Sunday–Friday 10:00 AM–5:00 PM, Saturday Closed
Tips
Several tour tiers are sold; the longer ones include the full steam train ride. The Cherry Tree Hill view on the approach is worth stopping for on its own.
Phone
+1 246-422-5357Neighborhood
Cherry Tree Hill, St. Peter
Activity providers
Kosher map of Barbados
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