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Crane Beach Barbados
The Crane. Photo: Clump, CC0, Wikimedia Commons

The Crane

Surf town · Barbados

Score a trip to The Crane

Surf, 6 nights from tomorrow, from your nearest start point: scored, planned and costed. Try another search

Beds: 12 places

12 places to stay within 2 km.

Prices are our estimate of the country's average double room of each kind that month: not this town's price, and not a quote.

Room photos are examples, not these hotels (credits).

All 12 places to stay · Booking.com

Spots near here: 18 surf spots

Surf · this week

  • Accra Beach - Rockley Beach · about 30 min by car · stays in Bridgetown · Not for beginners

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  • Brandon · about 35 min by car · stays in Bridgetown · Not for beginners

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  • Caccra Bank · about 30 min by car · stays in Bridgetown · Not for beginners

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  • Carib · about 30 min by car · stays in Bridgetown · Not for beginners

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  • Cattlewash · about 30 min by car · stays in Bathsheba · Not for beginners

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  • Crane Beach · about 5 min by car · stays in Crane · Not for beginners

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  • Dover beach · about 25 min by car · stays in Oistins · Not for beginners

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  • Foul bay · about 5 min by car · Not for beginners

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All 18 surf spots
  • Freights · about 20 min by car · stays in Oistins · Not for beginners

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  • Parlors · about 25 min by car · stays in Bathsheba · Not for beginners

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  • Ragged Point · about 15 min by car · Not for beginners

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  • Salt Ash · about 25 min by car · stays in Oistins · Not for beginners

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  • Silver Sands · about 20 min by car · stays in Silver Sands · Not for beginners

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  • Skeetes Bay · about 15 min by car · Not for beginners

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  • Soup Bowl · about 30 min by car · stays in Bathsheba · Not for beginners

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  • South Point · about 20 min by car · stays in Atlantic Shores · Not for beginners

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  • Surfer's Point · about 15 min by car · stays in Oistins · Not for beginners

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  • Thunder · about 35 min by car · stays in Bridgetown · Not for beginners

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Each score is the next week's out of 100, the mean of its best days, as on its own page. Green clears the bar. Distances are from the middle of The Crane.

Map

the town and every place near it

Each place is ringed by its best day this week, a surf spot for beginners: green good, amber fair, pale red poor, as the key says. The dashed circle is 20 km from The Crane.

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One finger scrolls the page; two fingers move the map. Pins are our own positions. Map OpenFreeMap, © OpenMapTiles, data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Photos of The Crane

Part of Crane Boom chain goes Walkabout on Ginger Bay
Photo: Johnmartindavies, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Foul Bay from KB's deck
Photo: Johnmartindavies, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Sargasso Seaweed with waves and sandy beach (cropped)
Photo: Jonathan Wilkins, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

About The Crane

where it is, what is near

The Crane is a town in Saint Philip, Barbados.

From The Crane you can reach 18 surf spots.

The nearest is Foul bay, a surf spot 0.5 km from the centre.

Overture lists 12 places to stay within 2 km of the centre.

The nearest airport is Grantley Adams International Airport (BGI), 6 km away.

In Saint Philip · Barbados

  • 12 places to stay within 2 km of the centre (Overture places)
  • Nearest airports: Grantley Adams International Airport (BGI), 6 km, Hewanorra International Airport (UVF), 177 km, Mustique Airport (MQS), 189 km

Forecast updated . Forecast data: ECMWF, DWD, Météo-France and NOAA, served by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Changed by us. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.

Scores are the conditions only: the journey, the price and the partners never change them (how we score, how we earn).