Travel Log - Providenciales, Turks & Caicos |
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 2/15/2026 - Providenciales, Turks & Caicos - Our trip to Turks & Caicos started two days prior on Friday the 13th, driving from Hilton to Toronto's Pearson Airport (aka YYZ) to stay overnight to catch a Valentine's Day direct WestJet flight to Turks & Caicos. We stayed at the Alt Hotel right next to the ValuePark Parking Garage a good but pricey spot. I took Deb to her favorite place Swiss Chalet for dinner. We crashed at the nice hotel and were awoken at 3AM via a text alert saying our flight was cancelled. We were rebooked for the next day losing a full day of our trip but managed to get a comped hotel the Hampton Inn and food vouchers. Today we left our comped hotel, parked and barely made our flight being stuck in a WestJet customer service line for over 90 minutes and rushing to another security checkpoint at the other end of the airport to make it in time. We made the flight with only a handful of minutes to spare and this flight left on time and we finally arrived early at lovely Turks & Caicos but still a day late ! We exited the plane from stairs on the runway and had a literal rubber stamp on the passport to welcome us to Turks. We grabbed our luggage that we were glad made it after a debacle at YYZ having baggage handling issues. We went to the rental car booth for Budget and the guy was literally passed out on the counter, after he woke he directed us to the shuttle to the cars. My car was a tiny old school Chevy Spark that barely fit us and our bags. I was off driving on the left side of the road for the first time and made it easily to our nice resort the Ports of Call Resort. We had a nice king room with a sitting area and balcony view of the pool. The resort was nice and had breakfast included and was literally one block from gorgeous Grace Bay Beach the first very nice beach we hit. In the next week, we would explore the island a bit driving all over hitting as many beaches as our little car could get us to. We stopped at Long Bay and explored a bit and it was there I broke my toe the first day. We stopped at the beautiful Taylor Bay Beach a couple times and enjoyed the calm crystal clear waters and shallow sandy bottom allowing you to walk way out and we also explored the Chalk Sound National Park. Another favorite for me was Leeward Beach with it's soft sand and big waves. We spent some time at Casablanca Casino winning some cash on video poker, roulette and penny slots. We had some nice dinners at various spots, a good Mahi Mahi at the Ocean front da Conch Shack, all you can eat lobster and steak at Pelican Bay and we ate several times at Osteria Pizza E Cucina right next to the resort with a good variety at decent prices serving a good wood fired pizza. The island was very nice and the people and staff were all good including the bartender who helped us win bingo and ring game competitions with the workers was a blast. The prices for most stuff was pretty outrageous including seven dollar plus a gallon for gas. Leaving the island, we went to the airport early and it became full quickly, very small for the amount of people it was servicing. Our flight was on time and we made it back to Toronto early and made it thru Canadian customs just filling out the automated forms and walked right to our bags and we were on our way home without issue.Slideshow | |
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