Well what can I say for an affiliate incentive that gets you a ticket to Barbados with 50+ others from the industry! This is what affiliate future offer every year and I was lucky enough to win a ticket thanks to Triviala this year.

Summing it up in one word I’d say …. amazing. I’m going to briefly sum the whole holiday up but I will no doubt miss many a story from it.

So me, Lee and the other Lee got a flight down from Manchester to Gatwick the night before so we didn’t have to have a crazily early start on the Monday, we stayed at the Hilton which was nice apart from the £20 breakfast, needless to say we didn’t take advantage of this. The evening at the Hilton we spent at wetherspoons having a meal and some drinks to start the holiday off, luckily didn’t feel too bad in the morning, we then all met at about 7am and got checked in. The flight was around 7/8 hours and time went quite fast after a few films!

We arrived and got a transfer to the hotel and this is the view from our balcony. We basically took over the hotel . We went out for a meal on the first night which although it took an age to get to us (was the fact that there was an extra 50 people in the place) it was good.

The second day we went on what was one of my favourite days. The Catamaran, as soon as we got onto it the bar was open and the music started. We then stopped at some places including snorkeling with turtles which was incredible. We also stopped on a really nice beach which turned into fruit fight with little fruits that came off the trees on there.

The 3rd day was also one of my favourite days which was the rum ball rally sponsored by LoveitLarge. The rally involved about 12 jeeps and teams of 4 in each and we had to go around the island doing what we wanted and trying to get the best photos possible, we had some fun/random times, we went offroad on the car up a massive hill, we asked for directions from a local women who didn’t have a clue, she asked us to follow but we did a quick turn in the road and speed off, only to meet her at the next cross roads which was bit akward!

We also had the joy of seeing this monkey, bit worse for wear! but we also went to a animal reserve and saw some which were in better shape, as well as parrots, snakes, tortoises (all getting it on) caymans, geckos and loads more.

The rally was a lot of fun, and everyone had different stories of what they got up. This took up most of the day so we all got back tired, but of course we didn’t stay in (didnt once really)

Below is a photo of our team, named team dead monkey, or team shiner.

Of course most the evenings were spent drinking, rum and coke and banks were the choice drinks ! We often ended up in a maxi taxi (see my facebook for a video) and at harbour lights which was $50 BBD around £18 for all you can drink … which always ended up in messy times!

Barbados is an amazing place and the locals are all so nice, they will just chat to you and always are chilled and happy! if only people in the UK were all like they were there!

The beaches there were incredible, white sands and blue sea. Here are two contrasting beaches we visited.

The holiday was a mix of having lots and lots of laughs,  drinking, relaxing, sunbathing, doing things wouldn’t normally do and all this with some amazing people! As others have said definitely made some friends for life from this holiday!

we also met dwight yorke on the last night

Highlights: Boatyard, rumball rally, catamaran, crane beach, harbour lights, maxi taxi’s, the radio, meeting all the amazing people.

Lowlights: Plane journey home (although it did involve a highlight in itself)

Im going to try my hardest to get onto this trip again next year! so so so so good. So massive thanks to Affiliate Future (James, Alex and Jess), Triviala for the ticket, and everyone who made it an unforgettable holiday!

More photos below (wish I could put all 250+ of mine up, as well as hundreds of other peoples too)