Baywatch Apartment - Reader Reports & Opinion
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Ivan Harrup from U.K. visited in March 2012 and awarded
This is a one bedroom studio annexed to Kurt and Ivy’s house. Kurt and Ivy are excellent hosts – Kurt picked us up from the airport, arranged a car, sorted another one out when it broke down whilst Ivy multitasks by being a fine laundress. The flat is well maintained and scrupulously clean. Some of the strengths of Bayview only became apparent when we moved for our second Castara week to Little Bay. These are 1. It is 40m from the beach and is at sea-level (you have to be careful with Castara apartment descriptions – 100m from beach might well mean vertically) 2.it is in the centre of village activity (restaurants, shops, ATM, bus) although it is a very quiet village. 3. Kurt is an amazing gardener and it was a pity it was so wet we could scarcely use the sun beds 4. It has hot water 5. It has A/C. I always try to give ideas as to how to improve the holiday experience. The strengths of Bayview far outweigh the weaknesses but - - a. we spent many happy hours under Kurt’s car-port watching the torrential rain. The very comfortable chairs would be helped by the addition of a coffee table b. we had a problem with the amount of sugar used particularly in bread. This was solved in week 2 by buying 3-4 loaves from the ladies at the clay oven and freezing the surplus ( the bread is a thousand times better than the cloying, poisonous junk in the shops). So the suggestion would be to replace the relatively small fridge with a fridge-freezer (big fridge small freezer) c. Our days ran from about 5am (cocks cock-a-doodling all over the village) to about 9.30 pm. The village has no night life so a TV with perhaps BBC World and CNN would help. The village has its idyllic, scarcely used beach. The problem for me was the sand flies which bite more ferociously than any mosquito. I would hope the village could eradicate them – my suggestion would be to take a 4x4 dragging a harrow across the beach to bring the critters to the surface and have a person with an electric wand set to kill insects, but not crabs, walking behind. Overall an easy base to relax and enjoy a rare and beautiful place.
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Chris Nettle from U.K. visited in February 2012 and awarded 
The hosts, Kurt and Ivy are local people, very welcoming and unintrusive.
The accomadation is part of the ground floor of their 2 storey house; very clean, the kitchen area was small.
Guests have sole use of garden with table, benches, umbrella and loungers and there is a car-port for shade. And a washing line.
The garden is visited by lots of colourful birds.
The property is in the centre of Castara, in the only flat area, with easy access to beach, tiny mini market and vegetable shop, fish market and 4 local restaurants.
The main beach is sandy and usually very calm.
The next beach is good for snorkelling (and a coffee) and is a 15-20 minute walk over a steep path.
There is a nice nature walk up the river to a secluded waterfall with pool for bathing (20 minutes walk)
Castara is a good location to explore the top end of Tobago with its Rainforest and more dramatic scenery.
Baywatch apartment is in the centre of the village and suffers from the noise of delivery and visitor vehicles, daily refuse collection at about 5am, barking dogs and sandflies on the beach particularly evenings. A good insect repellant is essential!
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Sudhin Mandal from U.S.A. visited in December 2010 and awarded
This was a nice place in the middle of the village and very close to the beach. Its very convenient to everything.
Kurt and Ivy were great hosts and the apartment was extremely clean. Kurt brought us fresh fruit and Ivy gave us some Kalulu - everything was delicious.
We did not want a touristy resort type place so we were very happy in Tobago. Its a very laid back village, great for relaxing and unwinding.
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Rita And Markus from Switzerland visited in November 2010 and awarded
We apreciated very much the friendly welcoming. As Kurt was in his holliday he could be our chauffeur to go with us to the Dentist. With the pain I had, it was a luxury service. As well we went ones very early in the morning with him to catch togheter the Ferrry to go to Port of spain.
We did appreciate the feeling beeing a part of the people there. We enjoyed the nice lush green garden. Very recommendable. The Appartement is located near everything a human being needs, inclusive a "Tante Emma" Shop with home made Icecream and cake - very delicious. Kurt and Ivy we thank you very much for the great time we had. (The bloody tooth wich was so painfull and making me a hard time is out now! ;-)))
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John Corlett from Canada visited in January 2010 and awarded
My wife and I stayed at the Baywatch Inn for three weeks in January and February and were very pleased with our choice of accommodations. Baywatch Inn is easy walking distance to restaurants, grocery stores, bars and beach. The apartment rent was very reasonable and Kurt picked us up and dropped us off at the airport.
The Baywatch Inn has air conditioning but we chose to leave the screened windows open and use the fan provided. Ivy or Kurt cleaned the apartment and changed the sheets every other day. Ivy provided a excellent cornbread one evening that complimented our dinner perfectly. Kurt and Ivy were very helpful with local information.
When we are in Tobago next we will be staying at the Baywatch Inn in Castara.
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