On arrival
A welcome with a local naturalist
On your first evening, a drink in hand while someone who truly knows Tobago talks you into the island, its wildlife, its rhythm. The week begins gently.
03A glamorous past
Royalty, film stars & a castaway legend
Long before it was Premura's home, Blue Haven was the Caribbean's most glamorous secret, built within an 18th-century fortress on Bacolet Bay, and in the 1950s the most coveted address on the island.
An 18th-century fort
The hotel rises from a Georgian-era fortress whose ramparts and cannons, once guarding the harbour through colonial battles, still watch over the bay.
The Caribbean's first pool
In the 1950s it built the first, and largest, swimming pool in the southern Caribbean, and became the island's most glamorous address.
Hollywood's hideaway
Rita Hayworth and Robert Mitchum escaped here. You can still stay in the Rita Hayworth Suite, named for the room she loved.
A royal retreat
Princess Margaret spent her honeymoon here, and Queen Elizabeth held receptions when Tobago was still British.
Rock 'n' roll guests
John Lennon and Ringo Starr are among the names written into its guest book.
Crusoe's own shore
By the latitude in Defoe's novel, the beach below is said to be where Robinson Crusoe washed ashore, and Disney filmed Swiss Family Robinson here in 1960.
As told in TF1's “50′ Inside” documentary, watch it above.
