PAX Guest House

The Pax Guest House is a charming place to stay. The couple who own it are friendly and personable. I stayed there the day before my birding tour started and another person from the tour group was there also. The proprietor was an accomplished birder and spent a lot of time showing us the birds in the trees around the hotel. Our stay felt more like a visit. They have a wonderful second floor veranda in the back under giant trees. Just beyond the railing there were five hummingbird feeders that attracted a hundred hummers, twelve different species buzzing around like at a beehive. They were very busy, and you could stand there two feet from them watching! At night dinner was served out there under tiny lights.|This guest house has some age to it, it's not new and modern, more of a period piece, but it's lovely and clean. There are interesting paintings, drawings, and antiques placed around the lounge, dining room and rooms. The rooms have private baths and are quite clean and comfortable. There is a water cooler in the hall with bottled water to fill your personal water bottles. They said their private well water was potable, so I used tap water for tooth brushing without any problems. |The meals were excellent, made with locally grown foods. They served abundant fruit plates at breakfast, and there were pitchers of drinks made from local fruits.|For birders this hotel offers amazing birding starting with the veranda, the trees around the building, and trails for birding away from the house out into a forested valley. The sky from the veranda was full of raptors of many species. Just before dinner we were listening to the flute calls of the Common Potoo. The Pax Guest House is a magical place, an intriguing start for one's travels and adventures around the country.

Lovely place with old-world charm; excellent meals and very attentive staff. Hummingbird feeders on the veranda have a wonderful display of Trinidad specialties with up-close views.||Highly recommended.

I am surprised by the many five-star reviews here. Here is what is good about Pax: the hummingbirds on the veranda, the view, the porch on the second floor. All very nice. ||Here is what is lacking about Pax: the rooms are in great need of upgrading as most every item in the room was rickety or dated. The bed was essentially an old mattress on a wooden platform. There was no mattress cover. The upper floor had no AC. Yes, Pax is high up on a mountain, and yes, you can open the windows, but I would like the option of cooler air for sleeping. The water for showering was cold. Toilets were a challenge to fully flush. Also, Pax is high up the mountain, accessed by a steep, switchback road, so walking to pick up a snack, see the sites on the streets or even stretching the legs is nearly impossible. If you are non-ambulatory, do not stay here. I did see that locals used that steep roadway up to Pax and the Mount St Benedict Abbey for exercise...thats a great way to get your steps in but not necessarily for folks on a vacation.||Until upgrades and overhauls have been made, I would not stay here again.

I stayed here in 2005 and then it was fairly bare bones but clean. However in 2025 it is a terrible disappointment. The rooms are filthy. A parade of ants occupied my closet. The bedding was changed once in 7 days. I stayed in the equivalent of a basement room. It was dank and moldy. The curtains were filthy. The bathroom fixtures were rusty throughout. The upholstered furniture in the foyer was threadbare and dirty. Regularly there was no hot water. The proprietor was friendly but must have thought that his upbeat nature would make up for the disrepair and degraded quality of the place. I could hardly wait to leave.

It's a nice place to view, but the lousy location means you'll be stuck at the top of the mountain. You can't go out for a short time if you need to shop or eat. Not safe through the town street. Take a taxi. They don't provide soap and shampoo; bring your own. The service staff member complained that one of our friends could choose seats at the dinner table during her remote live meeting. We can't change the time to 7:30 PM for dinner. The food is okay but too salty. For dessert, there is only cheap ice cream every day—no non-dairy option, nothing special related to Trinidad and Tobago like pie, cake, etc. Breakfast and coffee start at 7:30 AM, but we must leave on time for a conference. We checked until the last day, and they can offer a little bit earlier. What the heck!!! They didn't provide any accommodation for us. In most hotel businesses, breakfast starts at 6 AM.

Very poor customer service. The waitress lacked or appeared to have lacked the knowledge of the very limited options for tea. Very long waiting time to get a simple thing like tea. She disappeared after serving us and we had to go searching for her to make payment. She is most unsuitable in all ways for this business. 👎

A beautiful old property with superb attentive hosts. If it is good enough for David Attenborough it’s good enough for me. Breakfast looking at dozens of hummingbirds is hard to beat. This is basic accommodation so don’t expect a power shower but the beds are comfy, the AC and fans work well and I’m told|The dinners are wonderful. Convenient for the airport, and good wifi. But Gerard and Oda make it the memorable experience that is was. They are the perfect hosts which is why out organisation have been placing people here for over 30 years.

We had the pleasure of staying at Pax guesthouse during a tour of Trinidad and Tobago. There is a wonderful ambiance amidst the creaking floors, crucifixes and dated decor of this wonderful old building. Gerard and Oda are wonderful hosts, and we felt as if we were staying with friends. Birdsong is the only noise in the peaceful and tranquil surroundings. The rear terrace is full of hummingbirds with magnificent views of the surrounding forested hillsides. Gerard makes a terrific rum punch every evening and we had interesting and challenging chats over dinner about everything from botany to slavery. There were only six guests during our stay and we had an ensuite room, so I cannot comment on the shared facilities or noise from other guests. Oda was so kind to us, even preparing lunch for us when we decided to spend the day birdwatching from the terrace. Gerard also offered to take us on a night walk. Everything is old and dated here, but I loved it.