We had a bad experience with Coral Cove. We hauled our boat out in their boatyard and decided to get a room for a night. The hotel itself had very small uncomfortable beds and was unclean. The pool is very small and water warm. Also the security there had no problem allowing any who wanted to use their pool. Every other day families from the surrounding areas would show up with all their children and basically take over the pool area.

As far as the Coral Cove boatyard goes I’m not sure where to begin. The travel lift is very small and frequently stuck in the mud. There is a large, boat-scratching nail sticking out of the pylon at the entrance to the travel lift slip. It looked as if it had been there for years and had acquired a nice buildup of boat paint. Nobody had ever bothered to remove it…really? We were actually told at the last minute that we would have to remove our backstay. Fortunately the skilled lift operator pulled it off with inches to spare. The boatyard recommended their contractor to do the bottom work and also let us know that if we chose anyone else to do the work we would have to pay a daily fee. Their contractor did a good job sanding our bottom down to Gelcoat and applying a barrier coat but purchased the anti-fouling paint “under the table,” I assume for a discount. This paint ended up not even being real bottom paint. We had to haul out again a few months later in Tortola to redo the job.

In summary, I would avoid Coral Cove and in my opinion Chaguaramas all together. It is dirty with lots of garbage in the water and theft is abundant. I would consider ourselves savvy travelers and by no means easily scared but we never felt comfortable there.