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Post Recreated: Originally posted - 29 January 2003

My husband and I are staying at the Coco Reef at the end of April. I like to spend a lot of time around the pool and was slightly concerned at how small the pool looked - do many guests use the pool or do people generally go down to the beach?

Post Recreated: Originally posted - 29 January 2003

Dear Angela,

I returned from Coco Reef last Friday. The pool is, indeed, very small. I stayed for two weeks and never once went in the pool. The beach and lagoon are so utterly perfect for warm, gentle, clear-water swimming that very few people used the pool. I confess that I sometimes prefer pools to the sea, partly because at least I can see what I am stepping on (!) and partly because I don't like beaches that shelve steeply or rolling breakers that knock me off my feet. The water at Coco Reef is ideal for all ages. The only disadvantage to swimming in the sea is that you can feel slightly sticky afterwards from the salt. Some people then swam in the pool to counteract that - or there is a shower at the nearby steps. The only people I knew who swam in the pool said the water was about the same temperature as the sea, and that the depth was about 4 foot throughout.

Hope this helps.
Miranda L

Post Recreated: Originally posted - 29 January 2003

Miranda, thank you for you reply. That has in deed helped! I have one other question if anyone can help. Although everyone rates the Coco Reef as an exceptional hotel, nothing is really mentioned of the Spa there. Has anyone had any treatments there and if so what where they like and what sort of prices?

Thank you.
Angela

Post Recreated: Originally posted - 29 January 2003

Hi Angela

For further information on the spa facilities at the Coco Reef, please read our Coco Reef review (see either 'Reviews' or the 'Accommodation' listing for the Coco Reef on the main myTobago site. The spa is small and the features limited, but Jill really enjoyed her treatment when we stayed there last year. All Inclusive guests get one session free, I believe, but it's best to email the hotel and ask them for details of the treatment and prices. As regards the pool, the un-named answer below is quite right. The pool is of adequate size given that nobody but young children use it. The swimming there is perfectly safe and there is a shower unit to rinse off with right on the beach.

Post Recreated: Originally posted - 30 January 2003

Dear Angela,

My husband and I both had free back massages, one for each week, as we were all-inclusive. The first was by a lady, and the second by a 6 foot 4 inch man, Keith - and the second included legs as well (the first was just back and shoulders). Both were excellent, but Keith's was better. Although they were free, I noticed the prices and thought they were on a par with most other spa prices I have seen. I know somebody else who enjoyed a facial, and somebody else who had a back problem and had a massage, which he said hadn't helped him at all. So I have heard mostly good reports of the spa, but equally not many reports to make a valued judgement.

If you want any more information on Coco Reef, having only been returned now for 6 days, I can give you an up-to-date assessment if you wish to E-mail me on: [email protected] - and anyone else who wants an opinion - bearing in mind that it will only be my personal one, and one man's meat may be another man's poison ....

Miranda