Philip Prior, 72, and 59-year-old Ann Prior, of Bedfield, Suffolk, were attacked in Bridgetown on 17 March.
In St James, just north of the capital, Bridgetown, a sun-bleached eight-bedroom manor oozes British colonial charm.
And there are a growing number of quirky indie events, like the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, Ore.
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The couple, named locally as Ann, 59, and Philip Prior, 72, from Bedfield, near Framlingham, were robbed during a stopover at Bridgetown.
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Passers-by came to their aid and the couple were taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in Bridgetown, where they received "wonderful treatment", Mr Prior said.
The concerns over Barbados as a travel destination come about a week after a couple from Suffolk were shot in the island's capital Bridgetown during a robbery.
Any result other than a win in the penultimate match in Bridgetown will give West Indies the series - and complete a miserable winter's work for Strauss's men.
Speaking from his cabin on the cruise liner, off the coast of Antigua, Mr Prior told of the moment he heard "bangs" as the couple were sight-seeing in Bridgetown.
Their seventh-wicket stand was the second highest for the Windies after the world record 347 put on by Dennis Atkinson and Clairmont Depeiza against Australia in Bridgetown in 1954-55.
Three years later, it was a very different England team who triumphed at the same Bridgetown ground to lift their first global trophy, albeit in the Twenty20 format.
The third was Jermaine Lawson for West Indies v Australia at Bridgetown in 2002-03 (last two wickets in the first innings and first in the second) - and he was the first West Indies player to take a hat- trick on home soil.
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