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Curepe
Town in Trinidad and Tobago, Tunapuna–Piarco

Curepe

Curepe ) is a town in the East–West Corridor of Trinidad and Tobago.

Plan a trip to Curepe→From Scarborough

It is located west of St Augustine and east of St Joseph. Curepe adjacents the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies. Many of the students attending the university live in Curepe.

How locals move

Getting around Curepe the local way

  • Get inWhen the coach is not running and you aren't carrying massive luggage, you can take a local taxi with a licence plate starting with H at the taxi rank (100 metres to the right of the arrival hall exit) towards what's called "The Junction" and, there, hail a frequently running red-white minivan (Maxi Taxi), which also will drop you off at City Gate (South Quay bus terminal).
  • Get inThe taxi is TT$5, although you'll have to wait for the vehicle to fill up with 4 passengers (which does not take long), and the minivan is US$7 — altogether considerably cheaper than the US$30 for the authorized airport taxi.
  • Get inThere is a Wednesday ferry from Venezuela.
  • Get inFrom Scarborough, Tobago there are hydrofoils that take 2½ hours and conventional ferries that take 5½ hours to Port of Spain.

From Wikivoyage: Port of Spain, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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