Best Sustainable Hotels, Resorts and Eco Lodges in Trinidad and Tobago
Where to stay in Trinidad and Tobago
The 4 best places to stay in Trinidad and Tobago are sustainable and all run on solar power, cook with locally grown produce and back real conservation work on the islands. From Castara Bay on Tobago’s leeward coast to the Arima Valley in Trinidad’s Northern Range these eco lodges are top rated for low-impact eco friendly comfort that keeps guests coming back to a place where the rainforest still meets the sea and leatherback turtles still nest on the sand.
How we decide the best place to stay in Trinidad and Tobago
Each top rated stay in Trinidad and Tobago is hand picked and checked for sustainability features.
We look at how the property actually sources its energy, like Mt. Plaisir Estate Hotel, which is solar powered and designs its rooms to block bright light that would disturb the nesting leatherback turtles on the beach.
We analyse the water conservation, like Asa Wright Nature Centre & Lodge, which pairs water conservation with waste sorting and a zero plastics approach alongside its solar panels.
We verify where the food comes from, like Footprints Eco Resort & Spa, whose Cocoa House restaurant runs a farm to table kitchen drawing preferentially on organic produce from the resort’s own garden.
We also look at the property’s wider impact, like Castara Retreats, which was built by some forty villagers using local labour and materials and sponsors the Environmental Research Institute Charlotteville to regenerate the coral reef in Castara Bay.
The eco lodges on this list of best places to stay in Trinidad and Tobago have proven they are making a real effort to protect the island while taking care of its guests.
If the twin islands of the steelpan and limbo have only whetted your appetite for the wider Caribbean, our guide to the best sustainable hotels across the Caribbean gathers the whole region in one place, or follow the island chain north to the eco stays of Grenada, on to St Vincent and the Grenadines and across to Barbados.
Top Picks, Where To Stay in Trinidad and Tobago
- Castara Retreats: Green Key, locally owned eco lodge
- Asa Wright Nature Centre & Lodge: Green Key certified rainforest reserve
- Footprints Eco Resort & Spa: Off grid, female owned, farm to table
Castara Retreats is a Green Key certified, locally led eco lodge of treehouse style cottages set where the rainforest meets Castara Bay on Tobago's quiet leeward coast, a partnership between a British family and Tobagonian local management with a real stake in the business.
Solar panels supplement the power and the in house Caribbean Kitchen cooks from scratch with locally grown produce, while the retreat sponsors the Environmental Research Institute Charlotteville (ERIC) to regenerate the coral reef in Castara Bay and was built by some forty villagers using local labour and materials.
Asa Wright Nature Centre & Lodge is a Green Key certified rainforest reserve lodge in the Arima Valley of Trinidad's Northern Range, a locally run conservation centre and one of the oldest nature lodges in the Caribbean.
Solar panels installed with an EU funded grant cut its carbon footprint, alongside water conservation, waste sorting and a zero plastics approach, with the surrounding protected forest reserve safeguarding the birds and wildlife at the heart of the centre’s mission.
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Plaisir Estate Hotel is a Green Key certified eco lodge on a former cocoa estate in Grande Riviere, set directly on the beach that holds the world’s densest concentration of nesting leatherback turtles. The property is solar powered and its rooms are designed to block bright and white light that would disturb the turtles, while the village beyond is fitted with turtle friendly streetlights, tying the hotel into the community’s long running leatherback conservation work.
Footprints Eco Resort & Spa is a small, female owned eco lodge fronting Culloden Bay on Tobago's Caribbean coast, set across sixty two acres of reforested former sugar and cocoa estate.
It is built almost entirely from locally grown or reclaimed timber with reclaimed teak, recycled wallaba and traditional timit palm leaf roofs, and its Cocoa House restaurant runs a farm to table kitchen drawing preferentially on organic produce from the resort’s own garden.
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