we stayed at the Calibishi Lodges for 10 days and it was too short !
When you are looking for a nice small hotel , with friendly owners ,who help you with small and great problems , an hotel with very nice and clean rooms ,beautiful views ,excellent breakfast and dinner , when you like silence ,the smell of different flowers and a seaview , there is only one choice : Calibishie Lodges !
we loved and thanks to the owners , this was one of the most amazing holydays we ever had !
lynn and family from belgium

Very nice, comfortable accommodations. Not fancy, but has everything you need and it is clean and well-kept. Each lodge is a unit which contains a living-room with kitchenette, a separate bedroom, and bath, plus a lovely verandah. There are 6 lodges, and I saw four of them. They are pretty much the same layout, but the baths are not all alike. I was in #2, where the bed was very comfortable. The only drawback was that my shower was a hand-held number on a hose. The food was good, and our hosts, Chris and Linda, were great - they followed up on every detail. The location is nice, at one end of the town of Calibishie. You can stroll through the village, chat with locals, stop at one of the little groceries, or check out the eateries. I would definitely go back to Calibishie Lodges!

My husband and I visited Dominica for two weeks in January, 2008. Although the island is small, the roads are steep and narrow, and it takes a long time to get around. Staying one week in the Roseau Valley in the south and one week at the Calibishie Lodges in the north worked for us. We were able to enjoy what the island had to offer at a much more leisurely pace.

Calibishie Lodges is a charming hotel and Chris and Linda are caring innkeepers. We would recommend paying the extra few dollars and staying in one of the upper three units. They all offers views of the ocean, hillsides, mountains in the distance, and the flow of everyday life on the street below.

Our unit had a bedroom, bathroom, living room area, and small
kitchenette, which we really liked. We shopped at the local market for breakfast fixings and enjoyed breakfast on our own terrace. The unit was clean and comfortable.

The pool area was small, but we seemed to be the only ones using it during the week we were there and felt that it was our own private space.

The dining at the hotel was good. Be sure to ask Chris whether goat stew is available. It was tasty. Dining at the various Calibishie restaurants was hit or miss. Sometimes they were open for dinner, sometimes not. Your choices were usually chicken, chicken, or chicken. Try Kokonutz.. They were the most dependable.

We had our own car, so did not take any of the excursions offered by the hotel, but Chris and Linda were able to guide us to some lovely spots.

I would definitely recommend this hotel if staying in the northern part of the island.

I stayed at the Calibishie lodges for my Honeymoon. When we arrived there was champagne and glasses out and ready for us in our room (#6, definitely the best view). Chris and Linda went out of there way to make our stay a good one. They even let me use their personal computer to burn a cd when my camera ran out of room which saved me to the trip to Portsmouth to buy a new memory card.
The room was very clean and I felt very secure leaving our things in the room when we went out every day.
The island is amazingly beautiful and very untouched feeling. We rented a little 4x4 which I would definitely recommend doing.
I only have two complaints about the hotel, which are more just location related and not because of the hotel itself.
1. Don't expect much of a night life. Most nights we would walk into town and there are a ton of different bars in Calibishie, but we never saw any with more than 2 or 3 people in them, and often there was no music being played in them. Apparently what happens in Dominica is there will be one city having a party on most nights, and the Dominicans all drive to that specific city, but seeing as how drunk driving doesn't seem to be an issue for Dominicans, and there are no speed limits on the super curvy roads, I wasn't interested in driving an hour to get to a party and then home.
2. Other than little snackshops selling chips and beer, there isn't much for restaurants in Calibishie. We ended up having to eat in the lodges every night because the couple restaurants that were in town and open invited us in but then told us that they had run out of food.

Other than that though, the island is amazing and definitely worth the visit and the Calibishie Lodges are a good place to spend at least part of the trip. Maybe mix it in with a couple nights on the south-side of the island.