Overview
Fairmont Royal Pavilion is the ultimate oasis of luxury where the sand is soft and warm, people are welcoming, and exceptional cuisine abounds, offering hospitality fit for sophisticated travelers. The property boasts a dazzling array of leisure facilities and complimentary services including: once per week afternoon tea service per room overlooking the Caribbean Sea, a weekly Manager’s cocktail reception, property-wide Wi-Fi, fitness room, tennis courts, garden tours and non-motorized watersports. Discover the secluded 11-acre beach front resort - a tranquil, enchanting retreat perfect for romantic getaways, memorable celebrations, and unforgettable holidays.
Other fees include
- Barbados Government Room Rate Levy
Rooms
72
Inclusions
- Daily activities
- Round-trip airport transfers
- Complimentary Welcome Drink
- Non-motorized watersports
- Wi-Fi throughout the resor
- Outdoor tennis courts, lit for night play, including use of racquets and balls
- Weekly Manager's cocktail reception
- Access to Fitness room
- Parking
- All taxes
Rooms
- 1 king bed
- Oceanfront
- No more than 3 guests in the room
- 1 king bed
- Oceanfront
- Located on second floor
- Minimum 1 adult, maximum 3 adults
- Maximum 2 children
- No more than 3 guests in the room
- Balcony
- Connecting rooms available (subject to availability)
- Glass-fronted balcony furnished with outside ceiling fan, sun loungers, table and chairs.
- A/C
- Alarm clock
- Bathrobes
- Coffee maker
- Crib (on request)
- Hair dryer
- Iron/Ironing board
- Safe
- TV
Amenities
Aerial
Beach
Beach View
Beach
Day lounger
Exterior
Exterior
Garden
Hotel Exterior
Pool
Lover's Paradise
Pool
Outdoor Lounger
Outdoor pool
Beach
Palm Terrace Restaurant
Taboras Sea View Restaurant
Royal Pavilion
Pool
Pool
Pool
Tennis Courts
Location
Reviews
TripAdvisor Traveler Rating
Couples holiday
Bleasby4 on Mar 01, 2026
Lovely location, lovely staff (especially Tia at the concierge desk who was so lovely & helpful) hotel overall was tired (although rooms nice) restaurants limited.
Total Waste of money.
bhJ5962KQ on Feb 28, 2026
Feb.14, 2026 We arrived at airport and no Fairmont representative to greet us and take us through the Fast Track at customs nor a car waiting to take us to the hotel which was included in our hotel package. We found an airport representative, and they had a list showing our arrival that day and it said “No FastTrack” beside our name. The airport rep called the hotel and was told FastTrack and transportation to the hotel was not included in our package. We were told to take a taxi with no mention of reimbursement. We arrive at the hotel and check in after a tiring day. No mention or apology for these mishaps. We were offered a welcome drink which we accepted, this never arrived and we were escorted to our room. The next day I approached the front desk and asked what happened and I was told that they were never given our flight details. Our travel agent stated to us that these were given quite some time ago. The person at the front desk says maybe they were sent to the “Reservations” email. They seem to be very poorly organized. Why wouldn’t Reservations forward the information directly to the hotel if this was the case? After some prodding by our travel agent, they reimbursed our taxi expense and sent some sort of standard apology template done on a computer. A sincere handwritten apology would have been appreciated. Next, we had made a reservation at the hotel restaurant Taboras for 6:30 that night. We arrived on time at the reception station but were basically ignored for about 15 minutes. They weren’t that busy. We were seated at a table, and we ordered a drink first; it took almost 20-30 minutes before it arrived. Once it arrived we ordered our dinner. This took about an hour to arrive. Again, they were not that busy but were totally disorganized. We kept asking where our food is and received various conflicting replies. We received our food at about 8pm. The quality of our food was fair at best (the chicken & vegetable spring rolls were greasy and appeared to have no vegetables in them). The next day (Sunday) we went to the hotel’s Beach Club Bar and Grill for lunch. We arrived at 12:10 and were assigned a table very quickly. We ordered a drink which took 15-20 minutes to arrive and then ordered our food which arrived at 1:20pm. Salad had very little dressing on it. Staff were hard to speak with as they were too busy and when I asked why service was so slow, the response was, “it was because of the brunch being served it the main hotel restaurant. He also said to try again at another time and hopefully we will have a better experience”. After this we ate dinner outside the resort every night except one and we had great experiences with the outside restaurants in Barbados. Another issue was the difficulty in getting ice. The nearby ice machine was broken the entire time we were there (10 days) and when we set up for ice for each evening, it never arrived. We also arranged for coffee each day at 9:30am, which also didn’t arrive. Fortunately ,we had the butler service, and they followed up and immediately brought coffee to our room. On a positive note, our butlers Dawn and Renico were very responsive and did everything possible to improve our stay, we really appreciated their service . On our last day we noticed that the spare roll of toilet paper and spare Kleenex box (ours was almost empty) were removed. Did they think we were going to take them? This is very poor form on the part of the hotel! We had to call to have them returned. This hotel does not deserve to be a Fairmont hotel. Service is spotty, the rooms are old and in need of renovating, we took pictures as examples. The best thing about this hotel is being right on the beach with great views. Considering the high cost of our suite we felt robbed in that we did not receive nearly the value for the money we paid.
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