Where to stay in Roatan?

Hi everyone,

My wife and I are making a trip to Honduras (La Ceiba) for a friend's wedding, and since Roatan is very near, we decided to make a week long trip there. This is a last minute addition to our trip and we are planning on getting there next tuesday :shock:. I am incredibly happy to test my new D70/Ikelite/2 DS-125 setup and she's incredibly happy to dive and pose for me!

Our main concern now is to get a hotel with a good dive operation that caters UWPhotographers (have boats w/ space for equipment and tanks for rinsing, etc.), and a hotel that has AC, since my wife really gets eaten by those sand flies and when there's AC they don't seem to bether her so much.

Excluding AKR (which costs about $1000pp for acommodations per week!!) Cocoview and Fantasy Island seem to be the best hotels with the the best deals that we can get (around $650pp for FI and $700pp for Coco).

I was wondering if I could get any recommendation for any of these hotels from people that have been tp Roatan? I need help so I would appreciate any bit of info you could give me. Also, if you know of any better deal or where to get better prices in Roatan please let me know.

Thanks,

David.

This is a recent trip report on Cocoview.

http://www.digitaldiver.net/trip_reports.p...hp?reportID=111

I have heard many good things about this resort. Dee is also a lover of Cocoview as well.

HTH

Check out Bay Island Beach Resort at www.BIBR.com. I was there and absolutely loved it. Nice folks on staff. I could live on that island!

We stayed at Fantasy Island, visited Cocoview and Anthony's Key Resort.....next time we return, we will stay at Cocoview, hands down....very cool place. FI was OK, but was not a dive dedicated resort, our only observed weakness...I like "dive dedicated".