myTobago – your questions, review and comment about Tobago

Hi, what a great sight, we have enjoyed reading all the views in the forum about Coco Reef. We booked our holiday before reading but can happily say we haven't been put off! There are some very nit-picky views out there.

Unfortunately it's a long way off yet as we've booked for October 2005 (holidays for this year are already booked!) but we got a great deal through Virgin and some excellent savings for booking earlier than early! This will be our first time in Tobago, the Coco Reef was reccommended by my parents who stayed there in November 2001. They had a fantastic time and still talk about it so hopefully we will enjoy it just as much.

We have booked a deluxe ocean view room and I suppose our only concern (from reading other posts) is that we will have an ocean view. Is the ocean view better from some rooms and can we ask to be moved should this happen? Can we request a room with great views that others have stayed in?!

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers, Jill and Barry

Hi Jill,

We are just back from a fabulous time at Coco Reef. When we left on Monday of this week, the hotel was far from full, so I suppose you might be able to move if you are not satisfied with the view you are allocated. We stayed in a Deluxe Ocean View room and got what it says - an Ocean view. We were on the ground floor, room 149, and had a view over the the hotel's beach to Pigeon Point. The balconies are surrounded with lush and colourful plants and flowers, so the view even has a pretty frame. I would imagine that the very best Ocean views would be from the floor above in rooms numbered in the 230's and 240's, although some of them may be suites.

This really is a lovely hotel - I am sure you will not be disappointed!

John

Rachel Harries had the room with a fantastic view when she stayed at the Coco Reef, I think it was room 242(?) maybe Rachel can confirm this. When I stayed there I had a ground floor room and actually spent very little time in my room. The view from the room was nice though. The best view is from the restuarant bar etc.

We are going again this October and we are very excited.

Kirsten

We had room 249 in January (which presumably is above 149) on the 1st floor and loved it. Beautiful view of the sea, the beach and the lush gardens - without people tramping about above your head in their high heels. Birds are a bit noisy first thing in the morning, but our room also benefited from quiet air conditioning - a real bonus. Also our chambermaid was the lovely Cherry-Ann (sp?) for whom nothing was too much trouble - another bonus because I don't know who "does" the ground floor rooms and whether they are as nice as our girl was.

Miranda