Where to Stay

The Caribbean Islands of Trinidad and Tobago offer ideal accommodation spots, whether the visit is for vacation or business purposes. There are all sorts of locations, depending upon taste and requirements. You can nestle in a guesthouse on the hillside overlooking a tropical forest, get a studio apartment near the green of a golf club, or book a hotel room in the capital city of Port of Spain or Scarborough in Tobago, close to all amenities.

Hotel accommodations in Trinidad are mostly located in the downtown, Port of Spain area, with a few in San Fernando. In both areas visitors can easily commute to and from shopping malls, banking institutions, cinemas, pubs, nightclubs, business and sporting facilities. Of course, other hotels can be found outside of these areas, however, while some of these areas may not offer as many goods and services within a short traveling distance, they do offer the tranquility and peace of being away from the city life.

Accommodations situated on or near the beach are primarily available in Tobago, known as the romance isle. Many of Tobago's hotels can be found just within walking distance of the Crown Point International Airport at the island's renowned Store Bay. Here you can find the Belleviste Apartments, Crown Point Beach Hotel, Sandy Point Beach Village, Arthur's By the Sea, Hotel Coconut Inn and Tropikist Beach Hotel. All have air-conditioned rooms available, are very close or on the beach itself and have kitchenettes available for those who like to have the opportunity to whisk up meals themselves. The choices go on to include cable televisions in rooms and, of course, a swimming pool on the grounds with the beach mere footsteps away.

In Trinidad, beach hotels are fewer, with just a handful, like the Trinidad Maracas Bay Hotel situated on the best most popular beach in North Trinidad. Guests can enjoy full meal service, air-conditioned rooms with open-air balconies overlooking Maracas Bay. In South Trinidad visitors can enjoy the hospitality of Tj’s By The Sea, which overlooks the serene Gulf of Paria. Guests can look forward to swimming in the pool, restaurant facilities or dancing the night away in the ballroom.

For those wanting to keep in shape, whilst getting an even sun tan and dining on Caribbean cuisine, there are numerous hotels in the twin isles that offer health and fitness facilities. Many are specially developed with state-of-the-art gymnasiums and spas. In Tobago, the Le Grand Courlan Resort & Spa, located in Black Rock, offers water aerobics, Swedish body massage, aromatherapy and delightful mud baths, in addition to a spectacular black rock spa. The Kariwak Village in Scarborough is designed around the concept of an holistic haven, with its regular classes in Hatha yoga, Chi gong, and Tai Chi. Guests can also experience a shiatsu massage. The Sanctuary Villa Resort, Grafton Estate, offers a health-club complete with spa facilities to ensure guests are kept trim and healthy.

The Hilton Trinidad & Conference Centre, located just minutes from the capital, offers a full gymnasium, tennis and swimming pool facilities, as does the Royal Palm Suite Hotel located in Maraval, North Trinidad and the Crowne Plaza, located on Wrightson Road in the heart of Port of Spain. These are also ideal hotels for the business traveler as these offer banking facilities, shops, car rental, electronic safes in addition to office facilities, such as use of fax machines, Internet connected PCs, etc. A Tobago hotel, which cater for the needs of the business traveler is the Hilton Tobago in Lowlands. It offers similar amenities to those in Trinidad.

The Plantation Beach Villas in Stonehaven Bay, offer six plantation-style two storey villas, furnished with colonial-style furniture. There is a housekeeper to provide impeccable services. Cholson Chalets offers similar accommodations comprising of 9 units in the quiet fishing village of Charlotteville on the beach of Man-O-War. Enchanted Waters, on Shirvan Road in Buccoo, offers a 75-ft waterfall in a friendly, comfortable setting,

In Trinidad the romance continues at the CrewsInn Hotel & Yachting Centre, located on the Western Peninsula in Chaguaramas, which provides a relaxed atmosphere overlooking the yachting area. If it's a home away from home you're looking for, try the Valsayn Villa Guest House, on Trinidad's East-West Corridor, with its swimming pool and Jacuzzi, tropical flowers and birds and air-conditioned rooms with double or queen sized beds.

For the nature lovers, paradise can be found on both islands. In Tobago there is the Adventure Eco Villa in Plymouth, set in the lush green, tropical rain forest. There is Footprints, which is a guesthouse on a 61-acre nature reserve that offers fantastic snorkelling and bird watching. In Trinidad Mt. Plasir Estate Hotel & Spa, in Toco, gives guests the chance to be near the beach and to witness the leatherback turtles Leatherback Turtle Egg Nesting lay their eggs. The Asa Wright Nature Centre, which is located in the hills of the Northern Range Mountains, allows guests to be nestled in the lush, green tropical forest on a nature reserve. The hotel itself has a huge veranda that enables guests to witness many species of birds from the hotel itself.

In Trinidad, if you stay at Monique's Guesthouse or Carnetta's House & Inn, both of which are located in Maraval, there is a golf course located at nearby Moka for your enjoyment.

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