Barbados for a grand?

THE deal was this: to find a luxury one-week holiday on a golf course in Barbados during peak season when the cricket was on – for under €1,000.

It made William Porterfield’s job look easy.

Barbados is the most popular and probably most famous holiday destination in the Caribbean, the choice of celebrities, and barely a week goes by without a paparazzi picture of a sporting legend or Hollywood lush sunning themselves on the island’s beautiful beaches.