Best Certified Sustainable Hotels, Resorts, Eco Lodges and Eco Friendly Accommodation in Trinidad and Tobago
Where to stay for certified sustainable in Trinidad and Tobago
The 3 best certified sustainable stays in Trinidad and Tobago carry Green Key certification, sit inside protected rainforest and conservation land, and are locally led rather than run from abroad. From Castara Bay on Tobago’s quiet leeward coast to the Arima Valley in Trinidad’s Northern Range and the turtle nesting beach at Grande Riviere, these stays are top rated for genuine, certified eco credentials backed by the communities that run them.
How we choose the best certified sustainable stays in Trinidad and Tobago
What earns a place on this list is how these Trinidad and Tobago certified stays prove their sustainability with independent, audited certification, like Castara Retreats, which holds Green Key certification, the global standard for tourism that earns its green claims, and backs it with treehouse style cottages built where the rainforest meets Castara Bay. Because building on a forested bay can strip the very canopy and shoreline that draw people to Castara Retreats in the first place.
Castara Retreats keeps its cottages light on the land they sit in, set into the slope where the rainforest meets Castara Bay rather than cleared flat across it, so that hillside in Trinidad and Tobago stays intact for the rainforest and the bay that Castara Retreats overlooks and for the guests who come after you.
We look for that same instinct in the lodges whose conservation work and hospitality are the same thing, like Asa Wright Nature Centre & Lodge, a locally run rainforest reserve in the Arima Valley of Trinidad’s Northern Range where staying at Asa Wright funds the reserve it sits in, and Mt. Plaisir Estate Hotel, which sits on the protected turtle nesting coast at Grande Riviere so guests of Mt. Plaisir wake beside the leatherbacks the beach exists to guard. Because for the communities of the Arima Valley and Grande Riviere, protecting that rainforest and that nesting coast is protecting their own future, and yours. See more in our guide to the best certified sustainable eco stays across the Caribbean.
Top Certified Sustainable Picks in Trinidad and Tobago
- Castara Retreats: Green Key certified, locally led treehouse cottages where Tobago’s rainforest meets Castara Bay.
- Asa Wright Nature Centre & Lodge: Green Key certified, locally run rainforest reserve and conservation lodge in Trinidad’s Arima Valley.
- Mt. Plaisir Estate Hotel: Eco minded estate hotel on the protected turtle nesting coast at Grande Riviere.
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.
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