Barbados' Best

The Tamarind Cove Hotel, at Paynes Bay in Barbados, West Indies, has reopened after extensive renovations. Set on a 750-foot-long white sand beach, the hotel offers a new fitness center and updated guestrooms with new furnishings, lighting and mini refrigerators. For meeting and events, The Palm Room measures 1,400 square feet, seating 100 people theater-style. The more intimate Oleander Room holds 30 people. A new business center is adjacent to both rooms. For reservations, call 800/467-4519, or visit www.eleganthotels.com.