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Nate and Kara Buchanan visit Sandals Barbados and dive Carlisle Bay, where they spot sea turtles, seahorses, eels, and an octopus among the wrecks. The resort includes unlimited scuba, 11 restaurants, and an all-inclusive minibar.
Nate and Kara Buchanan visit Sandals Barbados and dive Carlisle Bay, where they spot sea turtles, seahorses, eels, and an octopus among the wrecks. The resort includes unlimited scuba, 11 restaurants, and an all-inclusive minibar.
Being taken out by some guests here. Sandals, Barbados.
Hold on.
So there's this place in the Caribbean where over half of our friends have honeymooned. It's all inclusive. It has 11 restaurants. There's free, unlikely unlimited scuba diving. And we just checked in.
We are super excited that Sandals has invited us to spend our last two nights in Barbados at the resort. So we came over here first thing this morning, and when we got here, the first thing we did was sign up for the afternoon dive. Now we have a few hours to enjoy the resort before we head out.
I haven't seen her this excited in a long time.
So excited. Let's go play.
So when I think of all inclusive resorts, I normally picture, like, free food, maybe free drinks. But Sandals takes all inclusive to a whole new level, as we've learned very quickly this morning. The chairs are free, the umbrellas free. The snorkeling is free. The scuba diving, the paddle boarding and the sailing.
The food at all 11 restaurants is free, the drinks are free, and the entertainment is free. I don't know why we would ever need to leave this place.
Let's go do some free stuff.
You're doing it. You're doing it.
I'm learning to sell. I've always wanted to do this. Oh, good. There you are.
Thank you so much.
Pizza, red pool.
How to get filled up for diving.
We're on a bus now that's taking us to Carlisle Bay, which is where we're going scuba diving.
I'm super excited about today's dive site because inside of Carlisle Bay, they have sunk five ships. So we're going to be doing some wreck diving, which we haven't done very much of in the past. Also, we are on the Sandals bus, which is a little different from the local bus. Nice air conditioning. We have about 10 seats to ourselves.
I have to get off the bus every two seconds to let other people on and off.
That was really fun. This is great.
Still just as well.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
This is how we do it.
Thank you.
And this is what it looks like, having an entire dive boat all to yourself. I cannot believe we're the only two people out of the entire St. Louis resort who signed up to dive this out today. It's gonna be great.
And it's a beautiful day. And it's four. Yay party.
That was one of the best dives ever. We saw so many cool things.
There was such a good variety. I feel like normally you either see, like, really good coral, maybe a lot of marine life, but we got all of that and wrecks. Yeah.
And a huge sea turtle. That was so friendly.
And seahorses. I've never seen seahorses diving before. That was pretty incredible.
They're so fascinating. Like, they're so weird the way they, like, move around.
It doesn't seem like they should survive in the wild.
And there were some out in the open too.
We also saw an eel, which I've never seen before, diving.
That was weird.
Tried to, like, bite the camera. That was awesome.
There was an octopus under a rock. It was hiding.
And we had our own private dive boat. Such an incredible afternoon. Now we're heading back to Sandals.
We're back. As soon as we got back to the resort, they already had our stuff put in our room. So before we mess it up, we wanted to show it to you. Here it is. There are two things in this room that I want to point out. Still. My mind is being blown a little bit by Sandals all inclusive concept. This feels like an ad for Sandals, but I promise it's not. First, the all inclusive room service menu. And second, the all inclusive.
Mini bar. Not so many. And if that's not enough for you, like a full size bar up here.
Not a bad place to spend the next two nights. And we have about an hour of sunlight left, so we're gonna spend it on the beach and then go to dinner.
Like we said earlier, Sandals has 11 restaurants, so it's going to be so hard to choose.
Just.
I'm just kidding. There's a sushi restaurant.
That's where we're going.
Are you Kevin? I love this place. Being in a restaurant where I can order unlimited sushi is basically my dream come true. I can't wait to eat. Yay. Starting with edamame.
Are you driving?
I'm just back in the house.
No problem.
Hey. Oh. At one point I had an itch, but I wasn't like thinking like I was just swing. And I had an itch in my eyebrow and I went and like hit my mask.
Hind legs. I took my mask off. I was scared.
Felt so stupid.
