Check out Anthony's Key Resort. Great resort for non divers. You would have to walk 2 flights of stairs for every meal.
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Seriously there's
no way someone with a torn ACL can manage there. Here's the deck adjacent to the restaurant. The cabanas across the water are on the key. Your wife would be walking up and down for every meal.
Restaurant - Anthony's Key Resort - Roatan - Honduras I didn't like the climb and I don't have ACL problems.
Our dining room perched on the hillside offers a spectacular view of the the lagoon, Anthony’s Key and Bailey’s Key. The adjacent Sunset Deck is the perfect location for taking photos and mingling with friends before dinner or during happy hour.
It's also a fairly expanded property, the beach is off the Key - there's also snorkeling in the lagoon but it's murky. The rooms shore side are on the hill also.
Breezy wooden bungalows are nestled between lush tropical foliage on the hillside of the main island, about 80 steps up from the dock.
Infinity Bay is a good suggestion. The units are three stories tall but there's an elevator afaik. The reef is right offshore and the beach is nice. So is the pool.
http://www.infinitybay.com/index.html
Another option might be Barefoot Cay on the south side. There's about 5-6 low, wide steps up to the villas but they're beachfront. Nice pool area, decent snorkeling in the lagoon, the reef offshore makes it calm. They also have a water taxi for back and forth but it's dock height. The resort is a little remote from everything except French Harbor nearby but the food is excellent. The lofts (cheaper) on the mainland side are upstairs so not good for you. There's 3 flat steps into the dining room - also a 2nd floor patio with a great view above it but it has stairs. It's a pretty compressed property.
http://www.barefootcay.com/
Diving is with Barefoot Divers on-site - they also do snorkeling trips. Easy entry off their boat, they have wide swim steps. One of their boats would be harder to get onto though, it's smaller with a ladder.
Does Cocoview even have a Pool? I don't think so...
Maybe Fantasy Island next door also. They have a pool, beach and snorkel the other side of the reef off Cocoview. From what I understand the dive from there isn't as good till you get farther out but we saw a lot of snorkelers get in/out off their waterfront gazebo. They've gone thru several management changes recently, it's an older property, some friends were there a couple of years ago and said it needed a lot of basic maintenance - poor A/C, no hot water etc. My friends were offered a really good deal so they were willing to put up with the inconvenience. They mentioned the food was just average.
http://www.fantasyislandresort.com/
Luna Beach Resort would have the same issues, the rooms are beachfront but about 15 steps up. Some of it is upstairs over the pool also. The reef there is about 600' offshore.