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- How to describe to your friends a ride one one of Barbados' famous [infamous?] minibuses? Hopefully this video helps! Commonly referred to as reggae buses by tourists because of the loud dancehall music some of them play, these minibuses are definitely an experience to be had while visiting Barbados. Many other Caribbean islands have what Bajans refer to as ZR vans that also play loud music, but I think minibuses are something that set the Barbados experience apart from the rest. They have become part of the Barbados cultural experience, and I would say they are a boost to the Barbados tourism industry, especially when it comes to attracting young thrill seeking tourists, but really tourists of all age groups seem to appreciate the unique experience. I have also curated a playlist called "Barbados Buses" that contains many tourist videos of.. well.. Barbados buses!
Barbados has an extensive and reliable public transportation system. Technically there are two systems, a public, government owned system that operates regular large city buses that comfortable seat over 40 people, and the private system that runs the 20+ seater yellow buses featured in this video and the equaly famous ZR vans, which are passenger vans similar to what you will see on other Caribbean islands. Buses in the private system are owned by individuals who basically rent them out to the bus drivers for a fee, and whatever the driver and conductor make during the day they keep. A ride on either system will only cost you 1 American dollar ($2 Barbados) one-way. That dollar will get you virtually anywhere on the island. On the public system, exact change is required, but they provide transfers in case you need to switch buses. On the private buses, they provide change, but you will need to pay each time you switch buses.
Officially, buses run from 5 am till midnight depending on the route. You may be able to catch ZR vans after normal operating hours, and/or you can hire a cab. Government bus schedules are available at www.transportbo....
I live in such a beautiful island I love my country Barbados
I ASK you please to give me your watssap number please
im from barbados too
We called it the boom boom bus.
We got married 20 years ago next year in beautiful Barbados.
See you next year wonderful people for our anniversary trip. Bajans are the nicest people on earth.
Ireland loves you ❤️. Greetings from the Emerald Isle 🇮🇪
no we do not I am a bajan
I love Barbados 🇧🇧❤
Was on one of those buses once just before Christmas. It was the first time I ever heard a reggae version of Jingle Bells!
Well mi gwan back fi deh 2nd time with in 2 weeks can,t wait fi be ova deh again love beatiful BARBADOS HOLETOWN
I read that in an accent 😆😆😆
Barbados is so safe and welcoming. Love my moms birthplace. Can go out anytime of night and have a good time. Miss BIM
my parents are from Barbados as well
God bless all Barbados and its people. For an avid cricket follower like me, Barbados
1:25 love that exhaust sound
I love these Buses as they were so much enjoyable, I was there 3 years ago and loved it.
I so love my country #Barbados reggae bus
we as Jamaican love
bajan and the the dancehall artis bajan
man come to Jamaica in the 90s big him up
ron Kodak there's a Bajan dancehall artist?
ron Kodak bbc yaaad man dem bus bad but a coaster fi life #heltaskelta
@@TdotSoul theres probably hundreds of bajan dancehall artists
Love the reggae buses...travel with a vibe!
Congratulations for your national holiday today Barbados
Thank you so much Lars! Prost!
So true. Love riding these busses. Always a great way to see the island of Barbados!
These buses are fun fun fun. Took them all the time when I was in Bridgetown.
I ride a ZR bus to and from the hospital every day and they are great fun! :)
I'm NOW seeing this! And I find it quite entertaining and funny. You made me laugh loud at the party hat comment! But thank you so much for this video.
I miss riding the buses in Barbados , I like riding from Bridgetown to Oistins
This was soooo very helpful! Thank you...an inexpensive way to tour the island
I have frequented these rides, and they freakin rule the transport world. Never a dull moment (unless your reggae phobic) and if UK took similar action, we'd all enjoy , not annoy each other -hooray- with the charges we pay, we deserve something cool?
Ben V-Pierrot amen!
These buses frequently get into accidents and are fined for horrible driving. Good luck with that.
@@mkbXD Been living in barbados my whole life and catch these buses almost every week day. Never got into any accident.
Tourist do call them that but we call the minivans or mini bus :) good clear video of Holetown Barbados!!
Nice video, I love seeing Barbados through the eyes of visitors.
The area you called "Mahogany Bay" is really "Paynes Bay" and the property you refereed to as Sandy Lane Hotel is really "One Sandy Lane" which is 8 private villas.
From 8:36 - 8:55 in your video is when you were passing Sandy Lane Hotel.
I recognised the towns. I go there every year with my friends in the holidays although we don't catch the buses
J. Chris Payne, please be informed that the drivers do not play regular FM radio. The amount of expletives heard on the minibuses are not permitted to be played on public radio. The minibuses play DJ mixes.
lovely island loved the "reggae" buses, transport is a bit safer than in trinidad, my fam is from speightstown many moons ago but now the descendants are all over. some in port of spain some in america and some like me in europe. even some in africa
with in 2 week mi is ova deh again can't wait fi deh 2nd time this year love it beatiful BARBADOS
what I can see it looks very relaxed and cozy out
A whole experience! Those crazy buses don't stop, they slow down for u to jump out, and the music can't be any louder but it's fun
i am really enjoying this video I am actually supposed to be on my way to St. James (the route in the video now) but im sitting here watching it!! haha
I could not believe i was in Barbados it remind me of Jamaica with all the reggae music.
Visit all the clubs at the gap with my oxtail.
Reggae is a caribbean genre. Why would it only be in jamaica?
Very well presented I truly enjoyed this video top marks on this presentation big up Yuh self!!!!
I miss home
48 is the best van for school children 😎😎😉
This is certainly a very different view of these transport providers.
Just thought I'd share some interesting geographical stats about this video with you all. Not surprisingly The top viewership of this video is in Barbados where 13,000people (about 3% of the population) have viewed it. Followed by the US and UK, each with about 6000 views, and Canada with about 2000. The US, UK , and Canada are the biggest tourism markets for Barbados. Germany at number 5 has about 500 views, and while you may not see German tourists as frequently in Barbados, you are almost guaranteed to see at least a few if you spend a week on the island. Interestingly enough, France which I would also say is a source of tourism in Barbados only makes it to number 15 with about 100 views. This video has been viewed in 168 countries. Four countries with over 1000 views, 13 other countries with at least 100 views.
Among the top 25 countries, Guyana has the top average view duration at 4:11, and Canada has the top average view duration in a non Caribbean country at 4:06, and Ireland has the largest viewcount outside continental North America at 3:43. Bajans on average view the video for 3:43. (Are you guys telling me the video is too long??). Highest view duration in the top 25 countries tends to be in the North America and the caricom region, no surprise, except that most of the countries beat out Barbados itself. If it weren't for Bim, view duration in the caricom would average out at about 4mins. Next comes the British Isles at around 3:30, followed by Australia at about 3:00, followed by the EU at around 2:40, South America is around 2:20 and in most asian countries they can't stand watching the video for much more than 2:00. Now 3 dudes watch my video in Pakistan.. BUT it looks like all three watched the video in its entirety! One guy in Benin must have clicked the video by accident, and another guy in South Sudan watch the first 6 seconds and said "screw that!"
It's not US$1.50 anymore ,that's now US$1.75
Why are the Barbadians called Bajans?
@@krnbhs it's related to the dialect which we speak. The way Barbadian is pronounced in our dialect was eventually shortened to bajan.
You didn't mention the amount of smoke that comes out the back of those things!! Still, that's not enough to keep me away! I go there every year and will be moving there in 2020!!
Still.moving?
Yep. Just waiting for my house to sell
@@PhannyObsession Good luck to you. That is beautiful!
Hi will love to moving dere too
Great vid glad to see you enjoyed the ride and stuff Thumbs Up
TdotSoul just so you know...that small pyramid you passed is a marker for the spot just off shore where a cubana airlines aircraft crashed way back. It's a memorial
Where in the video is that?
TdotSoul at 8:02
Hi wish i can come back dere one day
I live in Barbados
Hello
I want to inbox you please
Wat barbados is like wat hi see hi will love to come dere
Hi will love to come dere
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊bus 🚌 rides are great for picnic's over the weekend from a safe terminal 😊. ALL RUM BARS RESTAURANT'S WILL BE SAFE ONCE YOU GET TO OISTINS Fish fry Christchurch..!
The fuss really happens early on morning r late evening when ppl r on their way to wrk r home!
😊music is sometimes on these vehicle's 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊nice filming of all locations i know while waiting & paying the bus 🚌 fare of do you knock how many dollars i know per ride to get to your stop to enjoy beaches bar's restaurants! A bus ride is a tour too once you haven your map!
Word of advice from a Bajan living abroad. These videos are informative to tourist bro so when doing them, do a caption for points of interest that you may be passing by just incase a potential tourist may views it. Love the video and keep it up. I will do my part in sharing them for sure.
Hey thanks for the feedback and promo Sugarfree. I've done captions in my other videos which show more tourist destinations and landmarks, but I'll do the few that are here as well.
All my old heads remember B125
LMAO. Great video. Represent 246.
Can't wait to be there😍
Thanks, was enjoyable
love the video just hope that some people watch this dont think that how the road are from Holetown to Eagle hall that was shown in this watch. also very true in some ways
Bajan bus, best bus
Best buses EVER
Haha seeing this for the first time and I see one of my workmates on the minivan in he uniform lololol I have to catch them everyday to go to work in Payne's bay i didn't think the island looks this pretty from the window of a minivan but it really does nice video
Wow man beautiful then guyana
very good
I SHOULD TRY TO GET MORE REGGAE AND CALYPSO ON MY CHANNEL
So 1 in 10 Bajans have seen this video by now.
+TdotSoul yeah mon mi like it yuh now
+TdotSoul Englishwoman raised and schooled in Barbados, now living back in the UK, and missing Bim like rass.
Mi qwaan inna august mi wanna ride with dem
TdotSoul im one of them
Yes mi did ride with dem inna December was fun honestley
I need to go back to Barbados
Just like on the Transport Board Buses and ZR Vans, a ride anywhere on the island on a minibus costs BBD $3.50 [Effective as of April 15th 2019] 😊
Oh wow :( I understand what they are trying to do, and fares have been very low for such a long time, but hiking the fare $1.50 overnight it going to hurt a lot of people!
@@TdotSoul Indeed...
Pray before you get on one of those buses and hold on tight some of them drivers have no mercy while driving.
Actually all buses (private and and government) in Barbados are required by law to stop at the official bus stops and could be made to empty their passengers or pay through the court if reported by the police. Not stopping at a stipulated bus stop is a risky choice they private buses take to get a customer.
Ooh I see! I guess it must be one of those laws where the police use their discretion. Like here in Ontario, the speed on the highway is 100 kph, but people on average do 120 kph.
Not really. Transport board more often stays on route but police do stop minibuses and ZR. Very often they get away with doing what they want and sometimes they check if a specific route is okay with the passengers
This whole issue of minibuses and ZRs not stopping at bus stops, harks back to the initial regulation which stated that they must NOT stop at bus stops, because those were reserved for the government run Barbados Transport Board buses. Then the regulation was changed to state that all buses and vans (ZRs) must use the said bus stops. But by that time, they had become accustomed to not using the stops! And it''s been an issue ever since. (At least, that's what I've recently learnt.) But contrary to popular belief, many of the drivers do in fact obey the regulation.
I like the mini bus system more then islands with ONLY the offical bus because the minibuses run more often
but I remember the ones I rode in where a lote smaller then this kind of a minvan
Which of the other islands have official buses? Only ones I know are Bim, Jamrock, and T&T .
The smaller buses you went on, depends which island you were on because Barbados has the small minivans that most of the other islands have (they call them ZR vans) but they also have the midsized buses featured in this video, and the large government owned transit buses.
Aruba has an official I think San Andres also
and the Bahamas I missed the minibuses while in Aruba because the official bus only seems to run once an hour but in Barbados and the Caymans all you had to do was walk to the street and they would coming honking offering a ride
Oh right, Aruba, do they have minibuses in Aruba?
not that I have seen
Fatelvis2 I wouldn't expect Aruba to go that way, I think the laws there are stricter about that kind of thing. I did know about their public bus service though. It is nice to have the choice though.
Cool video. Been a seeker my whole life, and we're thinking a lot lately of trip to Barbados, seems lively and different. How did you film this? Hidden camera?
Hey Billy, what have you been a seeker of? Haha no hidden camera here, I just used a regular HD point and shoot. People are pretty easygoing as long as you don't stick it right in their face without asking. They know that people's youtube videos promote tourism to the island. Barbados is a really cool place, it's a unique mix of cultures, activities and backdrops. Great shopping for the shopper, scores of unique restaurants for the foodie, some great nightlife, pretty easy to get around, pretty safe, lots to nature trails/botanical gardens. The island is large enough that you don't feel trapped on an island, but small enough that you don't waste 2 or more hours travelling anywhere, and believe me there is tons to do. The southwest coast is where the party is at, the west and northwest coast is luxury central, and the east coast is less developed and ruggedly beautiful. These buses are just one small unique aspect of a very unique island.
Like most vehicles over there, the buses are imported from Japan at the age of about five to ten years
Oliver Dewar that's inaccurate on a number of levels. I'm not 100% sure about the yellow buses, but I'm pretty sure the chassis and motors are shipped in from Japan, but I believe the bodies are made in Barbados. The transport board buses were purchased new from Marcopolo, a manufacturer in Brazil, the motors from Mercedes.
I had heard that private cars were previously owned, but I highly doubt they were ever as old as 5 years old, certainly not 10, but I don't think that's the case anymore because you see a lot of current model Japanese and European Cars, and by current models, I mean models that are barely even a year old like the Mazda CX-3, the Ford EcoSport, the BMW i3, etc, so the cars for sale are either brand new, or new used, less than a year old.
Oliver Dewar that's inaccurate on a number of levels. I'm not 100% sure about the yellow buses, but I'm pretty sure the chassis and motors are shipped in from Japan, but I believe the bodies are made in Barbados. The transport board buses were purchased new from Marcopolo, a manufacturer in Brazil, the motors from Mercedes.
I had heard that private cars were previously owned, but I highly doubt they were ever as old as 5 years old, certainly not 10, but I don't think that's the case anymore because you see a lot of current model Japanese and European Cars. By current models, I mean models that are barely even a year old like the Mazda CX-3, the Ford EcoSport, the BMW i3, etc. The cars for sale in Barbados are either brand new, or new used, less than a year old. If they sold 5 year old cars, they wouldn't get the CX-3 because that model didn't even exist 12 months ago.
omg i remember this bus
Well we call em Boogie bus
well mi like it a lot yuh now
nice i like ummm.
I like
Hey Roland. Yeah, I know they call them minibuses locally, but this video is really more meant to attract potential tourists. Most of the videos (of which there are actually quite a few) by tourists refer to them as some variation of reggae bus. I figure Reggae Bus is probably much more of an eye catching title for those who may not be familiar with the local term minibus, but as you notice, I do refer to them as minibuses in the video.
Harry Callihan Everyone's entitled to their opinion sir. They do need to be more responsible, but they make their contribution to the important tourism industry.
What do you mean by jungle music by the way, I've never heard it referred to that way. Could you provide a link that demonstrates use of that term?
its better at night but I miss it sooooooooo
Just drop me at the gap please.......
dun knowwww
THEY STOLE ALL THOSE IDEAS FROM MY COUNTRY JAMAICA, EVEN OUR MUSIC AND THEN TURN AROUND AND CALL IT SOCA....ALL COPY CAT FROM JAMAICA
+Davion Garvey good steel, thank you beautiful Jamaica.
Once, I was giving directions to my house to an American visitor, and when I said I'm located the second gap on the left, he asked, "What's a gap?" lol
@@davgar4241 yuh dunce bad one big fcking yam head
😊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉from Grantley Adam's International Airport to your destination you will see many zr which are well cleaned by the driver's & paying the current bus fare in dollars cents you will be happy to reach 😀 your destination safe with a smile not overcrowding
Beanutiful people
"Reggae bus" LMAO.... I would say though, it's mainly the vans that go Speightstown and other places in the north that you would mainly hear this music ( Wanstead included); but as for other routes you don't always hear this kind of music. You might hear the radio or some other kind of music but not dancehall. I think a true minibus experience is from town to Speightstown (which I intend to try)
mi qwaan inna august mi wanna ride with dem
Sooo cool does these buses run all night!
No I think they stop sometime between 11 and midnight depending on the route
We don't call those buses they are called vans
I know, I called them that so that non-Bajans could find the video because that's what they've been calling them.
TdotSoul Okay I understand And also thank you for showing my country to the world!
TdotSoul Ohhh... and I also subscribed to your channel, soo.... yayyy!!!!
Haha nice :) thank you! I'm a Bajan as well, I just don't live there.
Really? Niceeeee!! B-)
The yellow ones are called minibuses & the Zrs are called vans
the place i call home :D
Nice video. I , from here in India, had a virtual ride around the busy route in Bridgetown. BTW, the mini-bus didnt pasd Kensington Oval, did it?© lol... And, can anyone tell me which make is the bus? Eicher ??
Some model of Hino I believe is the most popular brand, but there are various models. The buses I was on did pass The Oval, but not in this video.
hey u would have to catch a number 6 zr if u want to go to Kensington the vans also pass there but since i dont ho that direction by bus much im not sure which ones go there
Ort Transport Board reliable... if you want a St. Patricks bus duh ain reliable at all
Tell me bout it. Or sargeant st. Always gotta have the 2 longest lines in the terminal.
Private owned, most reliable form of transport in Barbados. Hope Mia is taxing them.
246 ti de world
All Roads Lead To The GAP ! St Lawrence !
Correction - spelt as 'Oistins' at 7:57
Oops! Indeed it is! I'll have to add a caption.
TdotSoul Btw man, I love the way in which you documented this!
Well mi love it wid di Reggae Bus dat why mi go back fi a beatiful Holetown St James Barbados can't wait fi go soon cum
#Barbados reggae bus
Did that guy really show a middle finger 0:41
Minibuses play reggae, soca and other
On 8:29 bro where is de light
Who wonder why a person gets mad??
If you are watching this in 2020 bus fare in BIM went up
VANS IS BARE BADDNESS XP
Btw we call them yellow vans
I plan on visiting in about 3-4 months from now and maybe relocate there,how can i get intouch with you for more info@tdotsoul.... I want to inbox you but i dont see that option...
Hey, I don't know why it doesn't show.. TH-cam/Google is always shifting things around. Anyway, you can reach me at tdotsoul@gmail.com.
Does anyone knows the name of the song, which starts at 2:40 ? :)
"Jump" by RDX
A woman complained about the type of music being played in these buses
Fuck her
Wás in the home in the room and think in barbados in rihana
9:05 that's not Sandy Lane
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Got footage?