2 Best Places to Shop in Bridgetown, Barbados

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Bridgetown's Broad Street is the primary downtown shopping area. DaCosta Manning Mall, in the historic Colonnade Building on Broad Street, has more than 25 shops that sell everything from Piaget watches to postcards; across the street, Mall 34 has 22 shops where you can buy duty-free goods, souvenirs, and snacks. At the cruise-ship terminal shopping arcade, passengers can buy both duty-free goods and Barbadian-made crafts at more than 30 boutiques and a dozen vendor carts and stalls. And the airport departure lounge is a veritable shopping mall.

Diamonds International Barbados

This duty-free shop carries fine watches and jewelry fashioned in Italian gold, Caribbean silver, diamonds, and other gems. They also carry Cartier, Breitling, Bulgari, and Crown of Light. The main shop is on Broad Street, with branches at the Limegrove Lifestyle Centre and the cruise ship terminal.

Little Switzerland

This minichain's shop, where you can find perfume, jewelry, cameras, audio equipment, Swarovski and Waterford crystal, and Wedgwood china, is at The Colonnade Mall in Bridgetown.