Guest Report

[P j Brooke]

We stayed for two weeks at Coco Reef in June 2008 and really enjoyed our holiday. Tobago is a beautiful island and well worth exploring, jeep hire is a must to really explore and prices reasonable.
The Coco Reef Hotel is probably the best on the island and has an impressive list of Royal and celebrity visitors on display, it is also conveniently located at Crowne Point.
There are however a number of imperfections at this hotel. The roofs leak badly in places, service is relaxed (slow) at best and sometimes non-existant, we often had to go looking for a server on the gallery, nevertheless this became our favourite late afternoon retreat. If you stay on B&B as we did, the hotel only allows £300 credit for incidentals, this only lasted us a few days before we were asked to pay, this made us feel the hotel did not trust guests to pay at the end of their stay. There is some aircraft noise from the nearby airport but not really obtrusive, more noisy is Store Bay beach with its fleet of glass bottom boats working next door to the hotel, (beware if you dont like Bob Marley at high volume), we actually liked it. Hotel food varied from excellent to poor but prices of food and drink were reasonable. Hotel entertainment was generally good quality.
There are some good restaurants close to the hotel within walking distance, and even better within a short taxi ride (typically USD25 round trip to Buccoo).
If you fancy Tobago, go before it becomes more developed, dont fuss too much about "little tings", dont expect international 5 star, just relax and enjoy, and despite the imperfections, stay at Coco Reef.