from our travel agent;
"Laguna Beach Resort is closing due to the fact that the current business model is no longer profitable in the current economy.The owners are shifting their attention to a new business model which involves using their dive shop in town, Utila Water Sports, and some locally owned villas. They have created an a la carte menu for both the diving and the meals."
No dates provided for the closure. We were booked for the first week of September. Note that they have not cancelled our bookings.They are offering a different land venue and pricing scheme. Laguna Beach Resort will be closed.We are asking our travel agent for more details regarding the "villas and food packages".
So i am posting here trying to learn more as we explore our options...
We have been to Roatan a hand full of times (CocoView, FI, AKR a few times each) but never been to Utila. Our trip has already been jumbled once since CocoView became full for the second week - which resulted in a swap of Utila-Roatan for Roatan-Utila. No big deal.
Our preference is still to try Utila for the second week as it will be something new. We have gotten stale lately as with only 1 or 2 one week scuba vacations a year we focused on dive-dive-dive places (Bonaire, Belize Dancer and T&C Explorer have been our last 20 trips). This is our first 2 week scuba vacation in a VERY long time (first was 2 weeks back to back in PNG on the Dancer liveaboard out of Rabual ).