We have stayed in the speyside inn for two weeks in september 2007. The hotel staff was very friendly, the rooms were clean and well maintained. The pool and garden were beautifull. All rooms have sea view. The dive shop is located next to the hotel and is run in a very good way by a swiss manager. Speyside is a quiet place in a beautifull part of Tobago, good for diving or nature. No mass tourism.

We booked the Speydide inn for a diving trip. The diving was good, but not spectacular. The hotel is OK, the best food in town, rooms are nice, but need maintenance. Quality of the staff very different. Some are helpful and friendly, but a number of them is very lazy and socially disabled.

A lovely little town but had a slightly off-season empty feel when we were there in early January. The hotel was very clean and simple but felt a bit bleak. There wasn't always anyone on duty at the outside reception area and some of the staff seemed to lack a bit of training. I think this feeling was amplified by the windyness and crashing Atlantic Waves (very noisy at night). Having said that the hotel was very helpful and organised an excellent rainforest/island guide (Wayne Gray) for us. You can also get a glass bottom boat ride to little tobago from the Blue Waters Inn where there are some lovely sea birds - snorkelling was offered on the way back. Food at the restaurant was great - we had super-fresh lobster for £10. I would recommend coming to this area a bit later in the dry season as in the afternoon it wasn't even warm enough to swim. Also watch out for the prices in Jemma's Tree House shop - they blatantly charged us more as tourists, prices differed when servers weren't 'in the know'. Perhaps this is fair enough but please keep it subtle!

Stayed in the tower room at the Speyside Inn, which has a rather spectacular view eastwards across the bay. Unfortunately, the weather was rather mixed due to the time of year, but there was still more than enough sunshine to develop a healthy bronzey. The room was clean and comfortable, the staff friendly, and, thanks to Christian the German chef, the food in the hotel was pretty good. In addition to the usual staple hotel menu items such as steak etc., there was plenty of fresh local fish to be had (and even a little tuna sashimi - a novelty for T&T, where they tend to serve all their fish very well-done). This is, in truth, just as well, as the options for dining elsewhere in Speyside are pretty limited, apart from the redoubtable Jemma's tree-top restaurant, which serves a daily-changing lunch menu of local seafood, but, alas, no booze. However, the main point about the Speyside Inn is the scuba diving, which is great. The hotel (like the others here) has a dive school attached, and the local reef and aquatic life are spectacular - they have the world's largest brain coral here, don't you know (it's about 12' in diameter). But if you don't like snorkelling, diving or reading by the pool (the beach is only about 6' wide), then you would probably find the lack of other diversions hereabouts a drawback. There are, oddly, no other watersports in evidence, apart from the odd local surfing. That said, if you have a car, it could be a good base for exploring other local attractions such as the rainforest reserve and the waterfall (agree the price with your guide first, though!).

This small inn right across the street from the ocean was so great! The room is simple but nice, kind of like someone's beachhouse. They have everything you need right there, and there are also 3 restaraunts right down the road. The food was very good and they are accomodating. The patio is nice for just swinging in the hammock, or you can walk down the road to the lookout benches or the dock at Blue Waters Inn for a boat ride from Frank's tours. We had a gorgeous view of Little Tobago from our room, and the staff was so nice. They make the best rum punch! I would love to go back to Speyside soon, and I wouldn't stay anywhere else!