C$ 284+ Cheap flights to Trinidad and Tobago

What is good to know if travelling to Trinidad and Tobago?

• The steel pans were created out of the oil drums left by the Americans after World War II. They have become Trinidad’s national instrument. The Panorama Finals are always held on the Saturday night before Carnival Monday. 
• Trinidadians love their music. Calypso is famed for its explicitness – and cheekiness. Soca (soul-calypso) is, with brass sections and synthesisers, made for dancing. It’s one of the most commercial of the calypso hybrids. Rapso is the music of the street with strong political rhythms and heavy drums. Chutney is a mix of Calypso and East Indian music. 
• Anglers take cheap flights to Trinidad for the spectacular fishing. The waters around the island teem with tarpon, tuna and shark. Seasonal visitors include sailfish, marlin, wahoo and dolphin. International fishing tournaments include the Kingfish Tournament, held in June, the Tarpon Bash (August) and the Wahoo Tournament (early March). 
• The Asa Wright Nature Centre covers 600 hectares in the Arima and Aripo Valleys of the Northern Range. The main facilities are centred on a former plantation, the Spring Hill Estate. A special attraction on the property is a breeding colony of the nocturnal Oilbird (Steatornis caripensis). The colony lives in Dunston Cave, considered to be the most easily accessible colony known for this species. 
• Maracas Bay is the most popular beach on the island. Driving across the Northern Range to Maracas Bay affords fantastic views of Trinidad’s rain forest and beaches. Sample, after a swim, the shark and bake. Seasoned, fried shark fillets, stuffed in fried bread with lots of go-withs such as tamarind or chadon-beni.

Trinidad and Tobago airport overview

Located just eight miles (15km) from Scarborough, Tobago’s capital, Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson International Airport (TAB) – formerly known as Crown Point International Airport – is the Caribbean island of Tobago’s sole air transport hub. Not as popular as Piarco International Airport (located on the other isle of the twin-island republic, Trinidad), it is nevertheless a convenient access-point for Caribbean holidays.

Flights to Tobago via ANR Robinson International Airport (as it is commonly known) are irregular and limited – mainly consisting of connections to London, and to other Caribbean destinations such as Grenada and Barbados.

ANR Robinson International Airport is a very basic, informal kind of airport – perfectly in harmony with the relaxed, sanguine attitude to life that characterizes the island at large. There are, currently, major plans for renovation and improvement at the airport (forming part of the Vision 2020 program) – but, as you’d guess, things are happening slowly.