Two doubles
The twin configuration, for friends travelling together or guests sharing.
Accommodation · Fort Young Hotel & Dive Resort
Your room at Fort Young
Every guest on the trip stays in a Fort Ocean Room — sea-facing, with a balcony you can sit on and watch the water you were in that morning. It is included in the week, not an add-on.
Fort Ocean
The room category every guest on this trip is booked into
Balcony
Sea-facing, with seating — on every room in the block
Roseau
On the waterfront in Dominica’s capital, on the leeward coast
Included
Part of the week, booked as one thing with the boat
See it for yourself
Fort Young from the air
The hotel, the pool deck and the stretch of coast it sits on.
The room
A Fort Ocean Room, facing the water.
Fort Ocean is the hotel’s sea-facing category, and it is what everybody on this trip gets — not a garden room with a sliver of blue. The balcony looks straight out over the Caribbean, which after a day of looking for blows is a surprisingly good place to end up.
Rooms come as a king or two double beds, so couples, friends travelling together and solo guests sharing all work. Modern boutique fit-out: air conditioning, a proper bathroom with a walk-in shower, and a desk if you need to dump camera gear somewhere.
Fort Young is a full-service heritage hotel built into an old fort, so it is not a dive lodge — there is a front desk, room service, laundry and somebody who can sort you out when a flight moves.
The balcony
Two chairs and a table, glass rail, open to the sea. Where most people end up at six o’clock.
The bathroom
Walk-in shower, lit mirror, proper counter space for rinsing salt off things.
The view
You are looking at the same water.
The hotel sits directly on the Caribbean Sea on Dominica’s leeward coast — the sheltered side, and the side the sperm whales live on. The drop-off where the boat works is a short run from this shoreline.
It is a strange and quite good feeling to sit on the balcony in the evening and look out at the piece of ocean you spent the morning in.
The hotel
What else is on the property
You will not need to leave it in the evening unless you want to — though Roseau is right outside the gate.
Seaside dining
Al fresco on the waterfront, looking down the coast. Breakfast here before the boat, dinner here after it.
The Marquis Bar
Stone walls, long bar, somewhere to sit and go back through the day’s footage with everyone else.
The pool deck
Loungers and umbrellas on the sea wall, with the water a few steps further on.
Jacuzzi
Overlooking the sea. More useful than it sounds after six hours of swimming after whales.
The lounge
Open-sided, wood ceilings, fans. Where the group tends to collect before dinner.
There is a dive shop in the hotel. It runs from the property, so non-swimming days and extra days either side of the trip are easy to fill.
Where it is
In Roseau, where everything starts
Fort Young is in Dominica’s capital, on the waterfront — city, reef and rainforest all meeting in about a mile.
- The French Quarter
- Next door. The Saturday morning market is the best one on the island and worth setting an alarm for.
- Duty free
- Shopping on the resort’s waterfront strip, a two-minute walk from the room.
- Waterfalls & hot springs
- Trafalgar Falls and the sulphur springs of the Roseau Valley are a short drive inland — the classic afternoon off.
- Rainforest
- Dominica is the Nature Island; trailheads into the interior start minutes from town.
- Diving
- There is a dive shop in the hotel, with diving straight off the dock.
- Getting here
- Fly into Douglas–Charles (DOM) in the north — that is the airport for this trip. Airport transfers are not included, and we will point you at the options when you book.
Room, boat and permit — one booking
The 2027 dates and prices are online — see which weeks are still open and book from there.