Best Nature Sustainable Hotels, Resorts, Eco Lodges and Eco Friendly Accommodation in Trinidad and Tobago
Where to stay for nature in Trinidad and Tobago
The 4 best nature stays in Trinidad and Tobago put you inside the wild rather than beside it, with Green Key certified lodges, rainforest reserves and reforested estate land that bring the birdsong and the bay right to your door. From the Arima Valley rainforest at Asa Wright Nature Centre and Lodge to the leatherback nesting sands at Mt. Plaisir Estate Hotel in Grande Riviere, and from Castara Bay where the forest meets the sea to the sixty two reforested acres above Culloden Bay at Footprints, these stays are top rated for getting you close to living habitat without ever leaving the property.
How we choose the best nature stays in Trinidad and Tobago
What earns a place on this list is how these Trinidad and Tobago nature stays protect the wild habitat and the creatures around them, like Asa Wright Nature Centre & Lodge, a working Northern Range rainforest reserve, which keeps the forest standing as living habitat rather than scenery. Because Tobago and Trinidad sit on some of the richest rainforest and nesting coastline in the Caribbean, and that wildlife only survives where the land around the lodge stays genuinely wild.
Asa Wright Nature Centre & Lodge stewards protected rainforest across its reserve and runs as a conservation reserve first and a lodge second, so the birdlife and forest in Trinidad and Tobago stay intact for the species that depend on it and for the guests who come after you.
We look for that same instinct elsewhere, like Castara Retreats, whose treehouse style cottages sit where the rainforest meets the bay so guests live inside the habitat rather than clearing it, and Footprints Eco Resort & Spa, spread across sixty two acres of reforested former estate above Culloden Bay that it has actively helped bring back. Because the local families and communities of Trinidad and Tobago live alongside this rainforest and coastline, protecting the land 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 Trinidad and Tobago
- Asa Wright Nature Centre & Lodge: a Green Key certified rainforest reserve deep in Trinidad’s Northern Range, run for conservation.
- Mt. Plaisir Estate Hotel: fronts a Grande Riviere beach where leatherback turtles come ashore to nest.
- Footprints Eco Resort & Spa: a female owned lodge set across sixty two reforested acres above Culloden Bay.
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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