Trinidad and Tobago Travel Forum

Hi there,

I am hopefully traveling to Trinidad in March to photograph a wedding. I am a professional photographer here in Toronto. I will be traveling on my own and am just wondering how safe Trinidad is for someone like me traveling with my equipment? I have recently traveled quite a lot to Mexico City & area so I am quite aware of the safety issues there. I'm hoping that Trinidad is not as bad.. Please help if you can.

Are you going to be in Port of Spain or on Tobago Island? The latter is quite safe and pleasant. In Port of Spain, you need to be careful as in any major city. When I was there we had been warned about potential dangers to tourists in PoS so just keep your wits about you. It is a beautiful country. You'll enjoy it.

Safe..... my partner and I have just returned from tobago with post traumatic stress, due to a serious incident which took place at our hotel.
what they say in the travel warnings is true - the place is so dodgy that the only way to really enjoy it is to book yourself into a 4 or 5 star resort, as that is where they would have security.

Bandits with guns target tourists in their hotel rooms and then everybody tries to cover this up by insisting the island is safe for travel.

you need to be extra vigilent, very careful and make sure you are staying somewhere which has adequate security -- our extra vigilence paid off as it avoided me being taken hostage.

just be careful and aware
best of luck

You've probably already gone and hopefully had a good experience. Like the poster above me, I had a traumatic experience (my friend and I were assaulted and robbed in a villa in Black Rock in the middle of the night) in Tobago and will never go back (and I live in Trinidad as a foreigner, where it's supposed to be MORE unsafe). I wish people would stop saying Tobago is so safe. It's not.