coco reef resort

[deborah bluestone]

Has anyone stayed at coco reef resort recently. I've read some 2002 reviews that suggest the resort needed some update...true? Also is it possible to get a non-inclusive meal plan? Are rooms relatively quiet? Thank you.

[Steve Wooler]

Hi Deborah

Sorry for moving your post, but its best to look for information and post message in the forum most appropriate to the subject. You will find tons of information and review on the Coco Reef in the Coco Reef Resort forum and I think that this will answer all your questions.

I believe the hotel offers various levels of accommodation plans from Bed & Breakfast, through MAP, FAP and AI. However, if you book through a tour operator, they may obviously offer less choice.

[Kirsten Giles]

The Coco Reef is wonderful. I stayed there is October and loved every second of it. A lot of tour operators offer you B & B packages and then you pay locally to upgrade to all inclusive. The hotel to my mind is a very quiet hotel and you really get the chance to relax and chill out. I have read elsewhere in the forum about noise coming from a night club, I never heard anything at all.

I would recommend the Coco Reef, I am going back in October and am really looking forward to it. My parents are off to Coco Reef in May for just over 3 weeks and that will be their 11 visit.

Any questions you would like answered please feel free to get intouch with me.

Kirsten

[Lord de Courtnay]

have just returned from coco reef, after seventeen glorious days, and have nothing but praise for this totally professional hotel. if i have one complaint, since my previous visit, it is the appalling behaviour of english children, whose parents know no better! we are assured by the owners ,that the "children factor" is being addressed in the future, by way of larger tariffs? i suspect this will not deter the "family from hell", who are on their sixth visit, much to the dismay of coco reefs superb staff!! i can truthfully say i found the nine year old girl had a command of verbal filth, that would sit badly on a rugby field!!!! that aside we are returning on 23 february for carnival ,cannot wait to get back!!!!! its the best run hotel on tobago, and it shows!!!!

[Paul Tallet]

Dear Lord

I agree that there are some naughty children around and I agree that some parents do not control them well ... but that is a risk you take unless there are places that ban children.

I note you are going to the Carnival but have you been anywhere else on the island?

If not ... come to Castara while you are there, I will buy you a drink ... introduce you to the 3 little Tallets and all the local Castara kids ... nuts as they come ... they will not swear (promise) but play lots of football ... and I hope we can give you a fantastic 'child factor' experience that you will never forget.

Kind Regards

Paul

[Miranda Lubbock]

Has anyone stayed at coco reef resort recently. I've read some 2002 reviews that suggest the resort needed some update...true? Also is it possible to get a non-inclusive meal plan? Are rooms relatively quiet? Thank you.

Dear Deborah,

Returned from Coco Reef last Friday (2 weeks there) and had a brilliant (second) time there. Our room was fine and I didn't think it needed updating. In heavy rain, one or two parts of the roof (over the lobby area and restaurant) leak but the staff are very efficient about coping. Your question re. meal plans has been answered by somebody, and I agree with the comments of somebody else about the children. They were very quiet last year but rather a pain this year. I think they should be discouraged. I have two of my own but my holiday was for R & R, i.e. without them, and I did not want to be disturbed during my sunbathing snooze with children shrieking in the sea - which littles ones inevitably do as they get so excited. Nor did I want to sit at breakfast whilst a tiny one continuously banged a fork against a plate! However, we survived - but I would have preferred for them not to be there I confess.

Cheers,
Miranda