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Adventure Guide to Trinidad & Tobago

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During July 1998 I had the pleasure of spending ten days inTobago. The book is essential to a successful trip and well done.However, I would like to offer my comments and make additions relative to Tobago. The airport is better than described and modern; it accommodates DC-10's from Europe several times a week. The authors obviously were not golfers because the golf course is a gem and should have been raved about. Even though it was in not as good a shape as one would have hoped, notwithstanding the rainy season, the layout is spectacular. A must play for any level golfer! We stayed at the Coco Beach Resort. It had only been open a short time when the authors were on the island and they did not do it justice. Coco Reef was a wonderful resort. It had the best service of any resort we have ever visited and the best food and best dinner-time live background music of any hotel we have ever been in. We had ten five-star dinners. The resort overall was definitely 4-star plus. The people on the island are friendly. Bucco reef was over rated and the snorkeling in general is not as good as either Belize or the Turks and Caicos Islands, but acceptable. Would recommend reading the local traveler's guide that you get everywhere. There are "phony" tour guides at some of the attractions, but they seem harmless. The rain forest was wonderful. Pay the $3.00 U.S. for the boot rental in the rainy season. Bring your binoculars and a 200 mm lens for your camera if you can. Besides going on foot into the rain forest, you can photograph birds from your car on the road that cuts across the island. The book understated Jamma's Tree Top Restaurant. It is still $10.00 for one of the best lunches you can have anywhere. It included tax, tip, and more food than you can eat. The faint hearted should think twice about driving on some of the winding roads that hug the cliffs. All in all, even though it is a little difficult to get there from the U.S., an island well worth visiting.