Coco Reef - a few questions!

[Julie L]

Hello everyone - my first post on a great site!

Am off to Coco Reef for 1st time in 3 weeks, and have found the general posts and reviews of the hotel fascinating - although I now have a few questions of my own.....

1. All the comments about the swimming pool say how small it is - I have 2 children who love swimming and they usually prefer pools to the sea - is the hotel pool really really tiny, or is it not just as big as some other hotels where the pools are enormous?

2. Comments about barbed wire at ends of the beach have me worried. Is it obvious, and does it make the hotel seem like a compound?

3. Are there still no in-room safes? And if not, are the hotel's security boxes big enough to take a medium sized camera?

Any help with the above would be gratefully received!!

Thanks.

[Steve Wooler]

Hi Julie

Welcome aboard and thanks for your kind comments.

1. The pool is just small compared to many hotels. I'm sure your kids will find it great, particularly as so there's a good chance they'll have it to themselves as the swimming in the lagoon is so calm and safe for kids.

2. You don't see the barbed wire from within the hotel, except and unless you look over the walls at either side of the property. You certainly don't get any feeling of being in a camp.

3. I don't think things have changed since we last stayed there in 2002 (although we're finishing our 2006 tour with a week there this year) and I haven't heard any different, so NO - you still have to use the inconvenient main 'strong room' in Reception. No, the boxes are not large enough for camera, if memory serves me correctly. Having said that, I certainly don't worry about security at the hotel.

[Julie L]

Thanks very much for the reply!!

That's put mymind at rest.

Just out of interest, were you in Antigua 2 years ago? We met a couple from Long Melford very briefly at a museum on Shirley Heights - I remember that because I am from Suffolk, and you don't meet many people from Long Melford!

Regards.

[Steve Wooler]

No, haven't visited Antigua for about 15 years.

No, you don't meet many people from Long Melford. We're apparently all waiting for our maker and the zimmer frames make getting out of the village a little tricky.