Hi everyone,
I just spoke with 2 separate members of Fantasy Island management and this is the official story. They have a group of 30 divers arriving tomorrow for 1 week and then they are officially closing for 2 months for renovations & maintenance to update & improve the facilities. They have already started on refreshing the palapa restaurant, the lobby & main restaurant, the dive shop area, and some of the grounds and will be fully underway with the renovations after next week after the divers leave. I have walked the property & can confirm that the work is ongoing. They are scheduled to re-open the first week of October.
Unfortunately, communication is not their strong suit, as is this case in much of Central America, so they have not done a very good job in telling the public what is happening. This is a common cultural thing in Central America, you just don't talk about anything that could be considered negative.
Before anyone asks, I do not have any connection to Fantasy Island or any reason to promote them beyond our goal of promoting tourism & diving in Roatan & the Bay Islands in general.
