Trinidad hotels
#1
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Programs: CO PLAT; Hilton Honors Gold; Marriott Gold
Posts: 40
Trinidad hotels
I'll be in Trinidad from April 26-May 15th. Any advice as to if the CourtYard or the Hilton is better? from a location standpoint and niceness of the hotel.
#2
Join Date: May 2005
Location: YOW
Programs: AC-SE100K MM, BA-S HH-D, MB-G LT Sil, IHG-Plt, Nexus, Global Entry
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Courtyard
- just west of downtown
- very new, comfortable rooms
- excellent buffet breakfast
- free internet
- 150m walk to cinema in small mall (take out, small restaurant)
- can be very noisy due to proximity to main throughfare... INSIST on a room away from highway (pool side)
Hilton
- nice location, view of the harbour and Botanical Garden if your room faces that way
- lots of renovation underway, beware if your stay is soon
- if you get an updated room, you will be happy
- large pool, but pool deck area is very tired and rundown
You didn't ask about:
Hyatt: most excellent! Only 14 months old.
Crowne Plaza: do not go there. The place is a disaster.
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13F
#3
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: YYZ
Posts: 1,675
Depends why you are going to POS. I can't imagine anyone going for a vacation (except maybe to watch cricket or footie). If you're going for business, ask the folks you're meeting.
Courtyard
Hilton
You didn't ask about:
Hyatt: most excellent! Only 14 months old.
Crowne Plaza: do not go there. The place is a disaster.
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13F
Courtyard
- just west of downtown
- very new, comfortable rooms
- excellent buffet breakfast
- free internet
- 150m walk to cinema in small mall (take out, small restaurant)
- can be very noisy due to proximity to main throughfare... INSIST on a room away from highway (pool side)
Hilton
- nice location, view of the harbour and Botanical Garden if your room faces that way
- lots of renovation underway, beware if your stay is soon
- if you get an updated room, you will be happy
- large pool, but pool deck area is very tired and rundown
You didn't ask about:
Hyatt: most excellent! Only 14 months old.
Crowne Plaza: do not go there. The place is a disaster.
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13F
Courtyard:
* Movie City next door has a number of mid-range restaurants; it is pretty safe to walk between the two, even after dark
Hilton:
* Restaurants other than in-house are accessible by car only, even during the day; Hilton's own restaurant is rather pricy.
#4
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 13
+1 on 13F's recommendation on the Hyatt. Just left there yesterday after a week's stay and it is top notch on service and accommodation (food is a B+ at best). Expensive, but worth it. A $35/day "package" on top of room cost gets you the superb breakfast buffet, Internet, choice of newspaper, some laundry service, and access to the Regency Club, which serves a mini-buffet of its own for cocktail hour with free drinks. And since you'll be there for a while: the exercise facilities are terrific.
#5
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Programs: CO PLAT; Hilton Honors Gold; Marriott Gold
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Thank you all for your replies!! Unfortunaley due to budget cuts the Hyatt is out of my department's price range. I wish it was. I am diamond at Hilton and when I called them they said all Diamonds are automatically upgraded so I am going to try and stay there. I'm only Silver with Marriott and I heard that the workout facilities were not up to par.
Any ideas on what to do while I am there? I heard I have to eat Doubles and Bake Shark. Visit Marcasas Bay and hop over to Tobago. Latin dancing night is Thursday night....Any advice on good restaraunts?
Any ideas on what to do while I am there? I heard I have to eat Doubles and Bake Shark. Visit Marcasas Bay and hop over to Tobago. Latin dancing night is Thursday night....Any advice on good restaraunts?
#6
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For dining in Port-of-Spain, try Jaffa on the Queen's Park Oval.
If the Hyatt Regency is out of your budget, have you considered the Crowne Plaza? Have a drink at the Hyatt in any case and enjoy the long waterfront walkway it's next to that overlooks the harbor. They'll be recovering from the upcoming Conference of the Americas and Pres. Obama's visit. Imagine having that many secret service under your roof...
If the Hyatt Regency is out of your budget, have you considered the Crowne Plaza? Have a drink at the Hyatt in any case and enjoy the long waterfront walkway it's next to that overlooks the harbor. They'll be recovering from the upcoming Conference of the Americas and Pres. Obama's visit. Imagine having that many secret service under your roof...
#7
Join Date: May 2005
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For dining in Port-of-Spain, try Jaffa on the Queen's Park Oval.
If the Hyatt Regency is out of your budget, have you considered the Crowne Plaza? Have a drink at the Hyatt in any case and enjoy the long waterfront walkway it's next to that overlooks the harbor. They'll be recovering from the upcoming Conference of the Americas and Pres. Obama's visit. Imagine having that many secret service under your roof...
If the Hyatt Regency is out of your budget, have you considered the Crowne Plaza? Have a drink at the Hyatt in any case and enjoy the long waterfront walkway it's next to that overlooks the harbor. They'll be recovering from the upcoming Conference of the Americas and Pres. Obama's visit. Imagine having that many secret service under your roof...
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13F
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I strongly recommend against the Crowne Plaza. Inoperative deadbolts (to both the balcony and the hallway), a non-working telephone, an inadequate breakfast buffet are some of the things I have suffered on two stays, although I have not been back in more than 18 months. The hotel is extremely tired and worn out.
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13F
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#10
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Trinidad & Tobago
Posts: 437
Bit late for your trip, but others may find it a useful guide at
http://www.meppublishers.com/online/discover/
enjoy your stay...
http://www.meppublishers.com/online/discover/
enjoy your stay...