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Beach time at Tacarigua
Tacarigua beach hotel
There is just one hotel here, but it is a good one. A row of linked duplex cottages face the sea across a wide beach. Rooms are spacious and colourful, airily designed against the heat. Boardwalks lead across the hot sand to a restaurant and bar housed, beachcomber style, in a spacious thatched loggia.
Thatched parasols dot the beach, a few steps from the sea. At most times of year there is a cooling breeze that also brings reasonable waves—refreshing to plunge into, but you should not venture out of your depth unless you are a confident swimmer.
The hotel is popular with well-to-do young families and couples from the capital and so is quiet during the week and busy at the week-end, but not usually disagreeably so. There is no swimming pool.
Beach time at Tacarigua
Day 1 You are met at the airport and driven through Caracas to Tacarigua Lagoon where a small boat ferries you to the hotel. Settle in and relax on the beach. Dinner at the hotel’s beach restaurant and bar.
Days 2 Relax at the beach. In the late afternoon you might take a boat trip on the lagoon to see hundreds of storks, herons and scarlet ibis return to their roost, covering the trees of some of the small islands in a spectacular display.
Day 3 Return across the lagoon and be driven back to Caracas airport for your onwards flight.
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Guide price £310 2 nights
extra nights £100
The guide price is per person based on 2 people travelling together and sharing twin/double accommodation.
Guide price includes: return road and boat transfer from Caracas to Tacarigua, 2 nights at hotel, all meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner).
