Best Nature Sustainable Hotels and Eco Friendly Stays in Dominica
Where to stay for nature in Dominica
The 6 best nature stays in Dominica put you right inside the Nature Isle, from rainforest cliffsides and forested river valleys to black sand beaches where leatherback, green and hawksbill turtles come ashore to nest. Stilted villas at Jungle Bay sit across 20 acres above Soufrière Bay, Secret Bay perches on a rainforest cliff near Portsmouth, and Rosalie Bay protects a wild east coast turtle beach. From Soufrière and Portsmouth in the west to Rosalie on the untamed east coast these stays are top rated for getting you closer to Dominica’s forests, rivers and wildlife, built by people who live on the island and want to keep it that way.
How we choose the best nature stays in Dominica
What earns a place on this list is how these Dominica nature stays protect the wild habitat and the creatures around them, like Coulibri Ridge, which runs fully off grid on a former aloe vera plantation near Soufrière and treads lightly on the land it shares. Because Dominica is one of the last truly forested islands in the Caribbean, a resort that clears wilderness or burns through diesel undoes the very thing guests fly in to see.
Coulibri Ridge generates its own power off grid and lets the regrown plantation around it return to wild rainforest, so the ridgeline above Soufrière in Dominica stays intact for the birds and bats and forest that live there and for the guests who come after you.
We look for that same instinct in the resorts set within real wilderness rather than cleared grounds, like Jungle Bay, which spreads its villas across 20 acres above Soufrière Bay, and Secret Bay, which tucks its villas into a rainforest cliffside near Portsmouth, with Rosalie Bay guarding a black sand beach where leatherback, green and hawksbill turtles still nest. Because families on Dominica pass this forest and coastline down through generations, protecting the wild habitat is protecting their own future, and yours. See more in our guide to the best nature eco stays across the Caribbean.
Top Nature Picks in Dominica
- Jungle Bay: a wellness eco resort across 20 acres of hillside above Soufrière Bay, its stilted villas built from locally sourced materials.
- Secret Bay: locally owned luxury villas set into a rainforest cliffside near Portsmouth, founded by Dominica born Gregor Nassief.
- Rosalie Bay Eco Resort & Spa: Dominica’s only Green Globe certified resort, on a black sand beach where leatherback, green and hawksbill turtles nest.
Jungle Bay is a wellness eco resort set across 20 acres above Soufrière Bay, its stilted villas built from locally sourced materials and overlooking the Soufrière Scotts Head Marine Reserve.
Solar power and rainwater harvesting run the property, an organic on site garden feeds the farm to table kitchen, and a reforestation programme plus top tier Nature Island Standards of Excellence certification back its conservation work.
Rosalie Bay Eco Resort & Spa is the only Green Globe certified resort on Dominica, founded by Beverly Deikel on a black sand beach where leatherback, green and hawksbill turtles nest.
More than 200 solar panels and a 225 kW wind turbine, the first on the island, power the property, and the sea turtle conservation programme Deikel established with WIDECAST has grown nesting from seven recorded nests in 2003 to nearly seventy.
Coulibri Ridge is a fully off grid ridge top eco resort near Soufrière, a 14 suite property built on a former aloe vera plantation from recycled and locally quarried stone, and the first Caribbean member of Beyond Green.
Over 300 solar panels feed batteries bunkered into the hillside, wind turbines designed to spare local wildlife supplement the supply, and rainwater is collected and purified by UV and copper ionisation to feed the suites and chlorine free pools, with greywater irrigating the gardens.
Secret Bay is a locally owned luxury villa resort on a rainforest cliffside near Portsmouth, founded by Dominica born Gregor Nassief and the island's only Green Globe certified property, recertified for a fifth year at 88 per cent of indicators.
The villas were built without heavy machinery to spare mature trees, using sustainably sourced Guyanese hardwood, and an organic farm plus backyard gardens at each villa supply the farm to table Zing Zing kitchen.
Rosalie Bay Resort & Spa is a female founded, Green Globe certified eco resort on Dominica's wild east coast, run largely off grid on a black sand turtle nesting beach at Rosalie.
More than 200 solar panels and a 225 kW wind turbine, the island’s first, power the resort, and its WIDECAST partnered sea turtle conservation programme protects the leatherback, green and hawksbill turtles that nest there each year.
Three Rivers & Rosalie Forest Eco Lodge is an off grid forest eco lodge in the Rosalie rainforest valley, Dominica's original eco lodge and a Green Globe 21 award winner ranked in the worldwide top ten for best practice.
Each property runs on solar and wind with composting toilets and biodegradable soaps, and meals are cooked by people from the neighbouring village using authentic Dominican produce.
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