In a great location, just steps from the buzz of Ariapita Ave, this budget inn is frayed around the edges but offers decent no-frills rooms, some with separate bathroom and just a fan, others with bathroom, air-con and fridge. Great for Carnival.
Melbourne Inn
Port of Spain
Lonely Planet's must-see attractions
15.68 MILES
A former cocoa and coffee plantation transformed into an 600-hectare nature reserve, this place blows the minds of birdwatchers. Even if you can’t tell a…
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29.88 MILES
About 25km southwest of San Fernando, and just south of the small town of La Brea, this slowly bubbling black 'lake' is perhaps Trinidad’s greatest oddity…
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0.77 MILES
Once part of a sugar plantation, formerly home to a racecourse and now the epicenter of the annual Carnival, this public park is encircled by a 3.7km…
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1.83 MILES
Get a truly spectacular bird's-eye view of the Port of Spain cityscape and the Gulf of Paria from this colonial-era fort, with stone-built defensive walls…
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0.79 MILES
Housed in a classic colonial building, the rather dry historical exhibits range from the oil industry to Amerindian settlers, the colonial era and…
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1.22 MILES
Resplendent with exotic trees and plants, and networked by paved paths, the Botanical Gardens date from 1818. Take a stroll or relax in one of the…
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6.47 MILES
This 5611-hectare estuarine swampland of dense mangrove thickets crisscrossed with tea-colored channels is best known for its scarlet ibis, T&T's national…
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Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust
23.17 MILES
A wonderful exercise in contradiction, this picturesque bird sanctuary covers 29 hectares of lake and forest within the incongruous setting of PetroTrin…
Nearby Port of Spain attractions
0.72 MILES
Nudging the Gulf of Paria opposite the western end of Independence Sq, and linked to it by a new raised pedestrian walkway over Wrightson Rd, the paved…
2. National Academy of the Performing Arts
0.73 MILES
The glinting curves of this arts center, looming over the southeast corner of Queen's Park Savannah, are an eye-catching backdrop to the park, a sort of…
0.74 MILES
Named for its burgundy paintwork, this imposing Renaissance-style parliament was constructed in 1906, having been rebuilt after it was destroyed by fire…
0.74 MILES
All pointy balconies and angular turrets, this 1980s concrete building houses Trinidad and Tobago's main criminal court.
0.75 MILES
Resplendent with red and gray brickwork, and topped with a looming central clock-tower, QRC is home to one of Trinidad's most prestigious boys schools.
0.77 MILES
Built as the residence of Trinidad's Anglican bishop (but now in private hands), this French Colonial–style building features intricate stonework and a…
0.77 MILES
Once part of a sugar plantation, formerly home to a racecourse and now the epicenter of the annual Carnival, this public park is encircled by a 3.7km…
8. National Museum & Art Gallery
0.79 MILES
Housed in a classic colonial building, the rather dry historical exhibits range from the oil industry to Amerindian settlers, the colonial era and…