A shopper's guide to shopping in Tobago

Shopping may not be uppermost in the minds of most visitors to Tobago. But there are some interesting gifts and souvenirs to pick up if you know where to look, and Tobagonian ingenuity ensures that your shopping experience here will be unique. Rustic or elegant, utilitarian or ornamental, there is truly something for everyone’s taste and shopping list (including yours!).

The mall experience

The new Gulf City Lowlands Mall is a one-stop commercial centre for clothing, shoes, pharmaceuticals and personal care items, books, accessories, souvenirs, jewellery, home furnishings, banking, and fine wines and cigars. The mall is smartly designed, air-conditioned, and already has several regional and international brand names under its roof. There is a comfortable food court, hair salons, and the new MovieTowne multiplex cinema is adjacent. The Mall is conveniently located just off the highway between Crown Point and Scarborough. There is a smaller mall in Lower Scarborough, hosting a number of shops and businesses.

Food & supplies

Local craft

One-of-a-kind hand-crafted items are a good buy, and are widely available near Crown Point.




Shore Things in Lambeau offers original art and craft (all-natural fruit soaps, calabash, ceramics, fabric, paintings and prints, pottery, and more) as well as food and drink in an idyllic setting.

At Bago-to-go in Lowlands, you can find hand-crafted dolls, jewellery, pottery, sculptures, textiles, and other trinkets.

At Store Bay’s 35-booth Craft Market, you will find everything from local sweets to hand-tooled leather goods, including a profusion of shell jewellery, calabash art, wooden sculptures, rasta hats, sandals and sarongs at their. Many of these vendors also turn up at Buccoo’s Sunday School from around 7pm to 11pm. Most are locally produced, though imported clothing, beach wraps and souvenirs are also for sale. Similar items are sold at Pigeon Point and Scarborough Market.

Batiki Point, a permanent store on the Sunday School site, is noted for owner Tina Louis’ vibrant batik wall hangings and hand-painted T-shirts, while Planet Ceramics, in front of the jetty at Pigeon Point, sells handmade ceramics, from house signs to miniature turtles.

Scarborough’s Milford Road Esplanade is a twenty-shop food court and craft centre on the seafront. For some Tobagonian social history, chat with Goldburn Job, The History Man, as he plays pan in his store, Goldburn’s Historic Parlour.

Scarborough Market is noted for leather goods, and there are other craft outlets at Englishman’s Bay and Mount Irvine Bay.

Popular souvenirs include miniature steelpans, complete with sheet music and instructions on how to wow your friends with a rendition of Jingle Bells.