Trinidad & Tobago travel information

Trinidad is a large, busy and populous island in the southern Caribbean (just off the Venezuelan coast), with easy access from Europe. Tobago is a low key, relatively undeveloped and friendly island with superb natural life. A late developer by Caribbean tourism standards and still quite unspoiled. See here for more travel information & Tobago villas…

Holidays in Trinidad & Tobago

Trinidad does not have that much of a traditional beach-based tourism and so it tends to be a specialist destination. Birding watchers and nature enthusiasts will be happy here, and there is also some light adventure and a few beaches, even some nice remote ones

In Tobago there are very pretty beaches, some classic palm-backed Caribbean strands but also remote coves forested down to the shore. In many ways Tobago has developed more slowly than the other Caribbean islands and therefore retains some of its gentle, old time Caribbean charm.

Sights and places to see in the Trinidad & Tobago

Trinidad is a large and very busy island by comparison to most of the Caribbean and it is untypical in its tourism. Instead the island is known for its culture and its natural life. The bird-watching in Trinidad is by far the most extensive and the finest in the whole Caribbean

The Trinidad Carnival in February is the biggest in the Caribbean. There are festivals year round in the island, but this one is the largest and liveliest and it is well worth attending, even joining in. It is help in the Port of Spain and you will also find an excellent range of restaurants covering the island’s range of cuisine.

Tobago has a wonderful, natural quality, both in terms of its relative lack of development, in comparison with some other islands in the Caribbean, and in the island’s natural life itself. It has superb forest, flora and bird-life, and some of the finest diving in the Caribbean.

There are the picture-postcard perfect, palm backed beaches with white sand and clear shallows. There are also other beaches that are wilder, more remote and incredibly attractive, with undisturbed forests that descends right to the coastline. There are two distinct halves to Tobago.

The western end, with its stretches of coral sand beaches, feels more like the classic Caribbean where you will find the bulk of the tourism and the sports to match. These include windsurfing and golf.  As you head east, though, beyond the main town of Scarborough, the land crumples and rises into hills and mountains, which are furred with incredibly lush greenery. Here you will find a much wilder Caribbean, less developed.

Weather, flight and travel information in and around Trinidad & Tobago

Because of the island’s southerly location, temperatures are equable year-round. Its average daily temperature is 27°C (80°F), and the average humidity hovers around 75%.

The only real seasons in Trinidad and To­bago are the rainy season (June to November) and the dry season (December to May). The high season is January to March, with a noticeable peak in February when Carnival draws many visitors.

Money; £1 = 9.11 Trinidad & Tobago Dollars (TTD)

Time; GMT/UTC -4

Telephone; 00 or + (868)

Last updated; March, 09