Coyaba Beach Resort

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Quick Verdict

Coyaba Beach Resort is the best-value true all-inclusive on Grand Anse Beach, and for a lot of travelers it is the correct answer in Grenada. Eighty rooms spread across 5.5 acres of mature tropical gardens, pavilion-style blocks of two floors, a freshwater pool with a swim-up bar, two restaurants, three bars, floodlit tennis courts and direct access to the two-mile arc of white sand that is the single best natural asset on the island. It is all-inclusive by default — not an add-on plan you have to remember to select — and it costs roughly a third to a half of what Sandals Grenada or Spice Island charge a few minutes away.

The compromises are honest ones. This is a comfortable four-star, not a luxury property: rooms are pleasant and well-kept rather than stylish, and 2025-2026 guest feedback is consistent that lunch is the best meal of the day while dinner at Arawakabana can be limited and ordinary. Standard-plan drinks are house pours by the glass, and the included non-motorized water sports are capped at one hour a day. The good news for 2026 is that the kitchen and both restaurants were expanded and rebuilt this year, which is exactly the part of Coyaba that needed the investment.

Pros and Cons

Pros	Cons
Direct access to Grand Anse Beach	Dinner is widely reported as the weak meal
True all-inclusive by default, no plan to select	Standard drinks are house brands by the glass
Roughly half the rate of Grenada’s luxury AIs	Water sports capped at one hour per day
Only 80 rooms — never feels like a mega-resort	Rooms are dated in places
Green fees at Grenada Golf Club included	2026 construction ran late (to Sept 15)
Premium Plus adds a daily body treatment	No kids’ club, water park or nightly show
Kitchen and both restaurants rebuilt in 2026	Wi-Fi and extras vary — confirm at booking

The Resort at a Glance

Detail	Info
Rooms	80, in eight two-story pavilion blocks across 5.5 acres
Restaurants	2 — Arawakabana (international and Grenadian) and The Carbet (poolside grill)
Bars	3 — Cacique Bar and Lounge, The Cove beach bar, and a swim-up pool bar
Pools	1 freshwater pool with swim-up bar
Beach	Direct frontage on Grand Anse Beach, Grenada’s two-mile flagship stretch
Airport	Maurice Bishop International (GND), roughly 10-15 minutes by road
Other facilities	Mini-spa, floodlit tennis courts, fitness center, on-site dive operation
Chain	Independent
Renovated	Kitchen, Carbet and Arawakabana restaurants expanded April-September 2026
Adults-only?	No — children welcome, but no kids’ club

Rooms and Suites

Coyaba does not publish a long list of named suite categories, and that tells you something about the property: this is a straightforward beachfront resort where the differentiator is view, not layout. The 80 rooms sit in eight pavilion blocks of two floors each, scattered through gardens that are genuinely well maintained — the grounds are the single most consistently praised thing in guest reviews.

Garden view rooms

The standard category and the majority of the inventory. Expect one king or two double beds, calming earth tones, local artwork, a sitting area, a private balcony or patio, air conditioning, a bathroom with tub and shower, satellite TV, mini fridge, tea and coffee facilities, hairdryer, iron and safe. Turndown service and room service (6:30am to 10:00pm) are available. They are comfortable, spacious enough, and unremarkable — the honest description is “well-kept four-star Caribbean,” and some blocks show their age more than others.

Pool view and ocean view rooms

The upgrades buy you a view rather than more space. Ocean view rooms are the ones worth paying for at Coyaba: you are on Grand Anse, and waking up to that beach is most of what you came for. Worth knowing that all the Ocean View rooms were in the blocks closest to the 2026 construction zone and were taken out of inventory during the works, so if you are booking a stay soon after the project’s September 15, 2026 completion, ask specifically which blocks are back in service.

Our pick

An ocean view room on the upper floor. The upper floors get better sightlines over the gardens to the water and less foot traffic past the balcony. The premium over a garden view is modest relative to the total cost of the trip, and it is the difference between “nice hotel near a famous beach” and “beach holiday.”

Food and Dining

Two restaurants and three bars, all of which were touched by the 2026 expansion. Understand the honest picture before you book: nobody comes to Coyaba for the food, and the price reflects that.

Arawakabana Restaurant

The main open-air restaurant and the heart of the operation, serving international fare alongside Grenadian dishes. Breakfast is a buffet from 6:30am to 10:00am, lunch runs 12:30pm to 2:30pm, and dinner is served 7:00pm to 10:00pm. It was expanded and returned to its permanent location in August 2026 after the kitchen works.

The recurring theme in 2025-2026 reviews is a split verdict: breakfast choice is limited but perfectly acceptable, lunch is regularly called the best meal of the day, and dinner is where guests are most critical — a narrow menu and preparation that does not always land. If dinner quality is your priority, Coyaba is not your resort; Calabash is, and it costs accordingly.

The Carbet Restaurant

The casual poolside grill, freshly expanded in 2026 and back in service from August 5. À la carte lunch from 12:30pm to 3:00pm and dinner from 7:00pm to 10:00pm — burgers, catch of the day, specialty salads and soups. It is the more relaxed of the two rooms and the reason lunch outperforms dinner here. Being able to eat a properly grilled fresh catch in a swimsuit ten steps from the pool is exactly what a mid-range Caribbean all-inclusive should deliver.

Bars

Three of them. Cacique Bar and Lounge handles cocktails at lunch (12:30-2:30pm) and in the evening from 6:00pm to midnight. The Cove is the beach bar, open daily 10:00am to 7:00pm, and the best seat on the property at sunset. The swim-up pool bar runs the longest hours of anything here — 8:00am to 11:00pm. On the standard all-inclusive plan you are drinking unlimited bar drinks by the glass with premium brands excluded, which in practice means local rum (which in Grenada is not a hardship — Clarke’s Court and River Antoine are worth the trip alone), house spirits, beer, house wine and soft drinks.

Food quality verdict

Good value rather than good food. Lunch at The Carbet is genuinely enjoyable, breakfast is fine, dinner is the weak link — and the 2026 kitchen expansion is the resort’s own acknowledgment of that. The saving grace is location: you are on Grand Anse, and there are excellent independent restaurants within a short taxi ride in the Grand Anse and St. George’s area if you want a night off. On a resort at this price point, having that option is worth more than at a $900-a-night property where every meal out is money wasted.

Beach and Pools

The beach

This is the reason to book Coyaba. Grand Anse is a two-mile arc of fine white sand on Grenada’s southwest coast, with calm, protected water and a view back toward the pastel amphitheater of St. George’s harbor. It routinely appears on best-Caribbean-beach lists and it deserves to. Coyaba sits directly on it, with loungers, palms and shade.

Grand Anse is a public beach — all Grenadian beaches are — so you will see local families, vendors selling spices and craft, and other hotels’ guests along the sand. That is a feature, not a bug: it is the difference between a beach and a compound. If you want an entirely private cove, Sandals’ Pink Gin Beach and Calabash’s guest-only stretch on Lance aux Épines are the alternatives. The vendor traffic on Grand Anse is real but low-pressure by Caribbean standards.

Pools

One freshwater pool with a swim-up bar, set among the gardens between the room blocks and the beach. With 80 rooms it does not get oppressive, and the swim-up bar’s 8am-to-11pm hours mean it stays useful all day. This is not a multi-pool resort with slides and a lazy river — for that you want Royalton Grenada and its water park.

Activities and Entertainment

Daytime

Included on the standard all-inclusive plan: non-motorized water sports (capped at one hour per day — read that carefully, it is a real limit), snorkeling, floodlit tennis courts, the fitness center, yoga sessions, and complimentary green fees at Grenada Golf Club, the nine-hole course in the hills above Grand Anse. That golf inclusion is unusual at this price point and Coyaba shares it with resorts charging three times as much.

Diving is the other reason people book here. Coyaba is a listed PADI dive resort, and Grenada is one of the Caribbean’s best dive destinations — the wreck of the Bianca C, the so-called Titanic of the Caribbean, and Jason deCaires Taylor’s Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park, the world’s first, are both a short boat ride away. Dives are charged separately on the standard plan; the Premium Plus tier includes a PADI pool dive and a snorkel trip to the sculpture park.

Evening

Modest. Weekly live entertainment, a bar that runs to midnight, and otherwise the sound of the sea. There is no animation team, no theater, no disco. Grand Anse’s restaurant and bar scene is a few minutes away by taxi and St. George’s is 10 minutes, so evenings out are easy — and cheaper than at the isolated resorts on Point Salines.

Families

Children are welcome and the beach is calm and shallow enough for young kids, but there is no kids’ club and no dedicated children’s programming. Families who want structure should look at Royalton Grenada, which has the island’s only water park and a proper kids’ club, or at True Blue Bay, which offers up to three hours of complimentary childcare a day. See our best all-inclusive resorts for families guide for the wider comparison.

Spa and Wellness

Coyaba has a mini-spa offering massage and body treatments rather than a full destination spa — a treatment room operation, honestly described. On the standard all-inclusive plan, treatments are paid separately.

The interesting math is the Premium Plus All-Inclusive tier, which includes one body treatment per person per day. If you and your partner would otherwise book even a couple of massages during a week, the upgrade can pay for itself before you count the premium drinks, the sculpture-park snorkel trip and the PADI pool dive. Ask for the current supplement price and run the numbers — it is the single most consequential booking decision at this resort.

What’s Included vs Extra

Coyaba is a true all-inclusive by default: the standard rate is the AI rate, unlike True Blue Bay, where all-inclusive is an optional supplement. There are two tiers.

Tier	What it adds
All Inclusive (standard)	Breakfast at Arawakabana; lunch and dinner at Arawakabana or The Carbet; afternoon tea; unlimited bar drinks by the glass — juices, soft drinks, wine, beer and spirits, premium brands excluded
Premium Plus All Inclusive	Everything above plus premium meals, premium branded drinks, one body treatment per person per day, one Saturday market tour per person per stay, one snorkeling trip to the underwater sculpture park per stay, one PADI pool dive per person per stay, express check-in, and a Coyaba bag with local rum and chocolate

Included (standard plan)	Extra cost
All meals at Arawakabana and The Carbet	Premium branded spirits (standard plan)
Afternoon tea	Bottled wine from the list
Unlimited house drinks by the glass at all three bars	Spa treatments (standard plan)
Non-motorized water sports, up to 1 hour per day	Boat dives and dive courses
Snorkeling equipment	Motorized water sports
Floodlit tennis courts and fitness center	Island excursions and tours
Yoga sessions	Airport transfers unless packaged
Green fees at Grenada Golf Club	Laundry and personal services
Weekly live entertainment	Room service charges, if applied

Grenadian government tax and service charge are usually presented separately by third-party operators — confirm whether your quoted rate includes both.

Pricing and How to Book

Price ranges by season

Season	Period	Approx. per night, two adults, standard AI
Low	Late August to mid-November	$250-300
Shoulder	Mid-April to mid-August	$280-360
High	Mid-December to mid-April	$350-450
Festive	Dec 21 - Jan 4	Top of range, minimum stays apply

These are planning ranges for a garden or pool view room on the standard all-inclusive plan, two adults sharing, from an August 2026 snapshot of operator and OTA listings — not a live quote. Ocean view rooms sit above these figures, and the Premium Plus tier carries a per-person, per-night supplement on top. UK package pricing looks different again: operators have listed seven nights all-inclusive with flights and checked bags from around £1,459 per person, rising to roughly £2,065 per person for December departures. Rates change with season and availability — confirm the current rate and exactly what’s included before you book.

Best time to book

Grenada’s dry season runs roughly January to May, and high-season rates track it. Book four to six months ahead for a January-to-April stay and two to three months for the rest of the year. Grenada sits at 12°N, below the main hurricane belt, which is why its low-season rates are less catastrophic than islands further north — late August through October is genuinely bookable here in a way it is not in, say, the Bahamas, and it is when Coyaba’s value is at its sharpest.

Where to book

Coyaba appears on Booking.com and the major OTAs with the all-inclusive board clearly flagged, and it is also a staple of UK operators like Virgin Atlantic Holidays, Kuoni and Tropical Sky, who fly direct to GND and often beat the sum of the parts. US travelers routing through Miami, New York or Charlotte will usually do better booking the hotel independently. Whichever route you take, ask explicitly whether you are on the standard or Premium Plus plan, and get the water sports and dive inclusions in writing.

Check current rates before you commit — and compare Coyaba against the rest of the island in our Grenada all-inclusive guide.

Compared to Nearby Resorts

vs Spice Island Beach Resort

Spice Island is Coyaba’s neighbor on the same beach and its opposite in every other respect: 64 suites, Relais & Châteaux affiliation, gratuities and greens fees folded into the rate, and nightly rates that start where Coyaba’s peak. It is the better hotel by a wide margin. The question is whether the gap justifies two to three times the price for the same sand and the same sunset. For a milestone anniversary, yes. For a two-week beach holiday, most people will take Coyaba and spend the difference on diving, restaurants and a Carriacou day trip.

vs Sandals Grenada

Sandals Grenada is adults-only, 225 rooms, eleven restaurants, included scuba diving and premium spirits, on a private cove at Point Salines. It is a genuinely comprehensive all-inclusive where nothing is capped at an hour a day, and if you want maximum inclusions for your money it is the stronger product. It also costs roughly double and it does not sit on Grand Anse. Couples who want to be looked after book Sandals; couples who want the best beach on the island and a smaller crowd book Coyaba.

vs Royalton Grenada

Royalton Grenada is the family answer — 269 suites on Magazine Beach with a water park, kids’ club, multiple restaurants and the Diamond Club upgrade tier. It is bigger, newer (reopened March 2020) and better equipped for children in every way. It is also a large chain resort with the atmosphere that implies. Families should compare the two directly; couples and divers will find Coyaba’s 80-room scale far more appealing.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Coyaba Beach Resort really all-inclusive?

Yes. Unlike True Blue Bay or Laluna, where all-inclusive is an optional supplement, Coyaba sells all-inclusive as its standard board basis. It covers breakfast at Arawakabana, lunch and dinner at Arawakabana or The Carbet, afternoon tea and unlimited bar drinks by the glass. A Premium Plus tier is available on top.

Are premium spirits included at Coyaba?

Not on the standard plan — house pours by the glass are included and premium brands are explicitly excluded. Premium branded drinks come with the Premium Plus All Inclusive upgrade, along with premium meals, a daily body treatment and several activities. Our guide to what all-inclusive alcohol actually covers explains why this two-tier structure is so common in the Caribbean.

Is the Premium Plus upgrade worth it?

Often, yes. It bundles one body treatment per person per day, a snorkel trip to the Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park, a PADI pool dive, a Saturday market tour, express check-in and premium drinks. Price a week of spa treatments and one sculpture-park excursion at rack rate and compare — for couples who would book those anyway, the upgrade usually costs less than buying them separately.

Was the resort affected by construction in 2026?

Yes, and you should ask about it. Coyaba expanded its kitchen and both the Carbet and Arawakabana restaurants starting April 30, 2026. Four room blocks nearest the works — including all Ocean View rooms — and both restaurants were out of service during the project. Shipping delays pushed completion from July 31 to September 15, 2026, though the expanded Carbet reopened to guests on August 5 and Arawakabana returned to its permanent location at the same time. Confirm the current status of your specific room block when you book.

How far is Coyaba from the airport and from St. George’s?

Maurice Bishop International Airport (GND) is roughly 10 to 15 minutes by road, and the capital St. George’s is about 10 minutes in the other direction. That central position on Grand Anse is one of Coyaba’s underrated advantages — restaurants, bars, the Saturday market and the island’s main dive operators are all easy, cheap taxi rides away.

Is Coyaba good for families?

It works for families, but it is not designed around them. The beach is calm and safe, children are welcome, and the resort’s scale is manageable with young kids. But there is no kids’ club, no water park and no children’s programming. Families who want those should look at Royalton Grenada, or at True Blue Bay’s complimentary childcare.

Final Verdict: 8.2 out of 10

Coyaba Beach Resort does the most important thing right: it puts you directly on Grand Anse, on a real all-inclusive plan, at a price that leaves budget for the rest of Grenada. Eighty rooms across 5.5 acres of beautifully kept gardens, a swim-up bar with 15-hour service, included tennis and golf, an on-site dive operation with the Bianca C and the underwater sculpture park a short boat ride away, and a beach bar that is the best sunset seat on the island’s best beach. For $250-450 a night that is a strong package by any Caribbean standard.

The score stops at 8.2 because of dinner and drinks. Recent guests are consistent that evening dining at Arawakabana is the weak point, the standard bar tier is house pours, and the one-hour cap on water sports is stingier than the marketing suggests. The 2026 kitchen and restaurant expansion is a genuine attempt to fix the first problem — we would want a full season of post-renovation reviews before crediting it.

Book it if: you want Grand Anse on an all-inclusive budget, you dive or want to, you would rather have 80 rooms than 269, and you are happy to eat out once or twice during the week.

Skip it if: food quality is the point of your holiday (book Calabash), you want included premium spirits and unlimited everything (Sandals Grenada), or you are traveling with children who need a kids’ club and a water park (Royalton Grenada).

For the full lineup — including the Grand Anse properties that are not all-inclusive at all — read our guide to the best all-inclusive resorts in Grenada.