The Tamarind Tree Hotel & Restaurant

Stefan Loerner is originally from Germany; Annette Peyer Loerner ist Swiss German.

We came to Dominica in December 1997, built our own hotel and opened the restaurant in January 2001 and the hotel in October 2001. Our son Nathan was born here in 1999.

We decided to live here for the sheer love of this country, its world class diving, the unspoiled nature and the kind people.

We are both divers, Stefan a ***VDTL, Annette a PADI instructor. Annette is also a trained tour guide and an official tour guide in Dominica.

Stefan speaks German, English and a little Spanish, Annette Swiss German, German, English, French, Italian and a little Spanish.

We closely work together with the dive center East Carib Dive, located on Salisbury Beach, only 7 minutes walking distance from our hotel. The owners Beatrice and Harald are French-Spanish and German respectively. Both are dive instructors with many years of experience.

We also offer hiking programmes and various tours and excursions.

The Tamarind Tree Hotel & Restaurant, a small, intimate hotel perched on a cliff overlooking the beautiful Caribbean sea has identified the environment as an integral part of our product offer.

As such, we recognise that our business has an important role to play in protecting and enhancing the environment for guests, residents and the future generations of Dominica, “the Nature Isle of the Caribbean”.

Therefore, we are committed to:

Achieve sound environmental practices across our entire operation

Comply fully with all relevant laws and regulations

Minimize our use of energy, water and materials waste and adopt the principle of reduce, re-use and recycle

Minimize the use of hazardous materials associated with our operations

Sensitize our guests and educate our staff on the extraordinary eco-system on our island so as to promote environmentally acceptable activities

Work with others in the tourism industry, in public agencies and the community to achieve wider environmental goals

Provide all employees with the training and resources required to meet our environmental objectives

To annually review our policy and openly communicate it and other best practices to our employees, suppliers, guests and interested parties to encourage joint participation in our environmental efforts

Continually monitor and record our environmental performance, relative to our policy, objectives and targets and to provide annually performance monitoring data to Green Globe 21.

Maintain a continuous commitment to improved environmental practices

Purchase local goods and services and provide employment opportunities to promote economic and social growth of the surrounding communities