Quite often, these reservations do convert into the rooms that you originally requested- as those reserved rooms open up from group bookings that may fall short in numbers. That said, you're still at Coco View, have no doubt.
One advantage that some find in the Beach Houses is that you can cook for yourself. Personally, what with the available quantity of diving at CCV, I prefer to take meals at the main Clubhouse instead of taking time out of my dive-day for that kind of thing. So, even if friends are staying in the Beach Houses, I always recommend that they stay with the meal package available from the resort itself. This is not to say that you might not want the Beach House manager to do some advance grocery shopping for you and have a few fun things in the fridge.
The Beach Houses stretch to the East, along the shoreline, and are accessed along a hard sandy two track path. There are bicycles for your use, but most folks seem to prefer to walk. From the furthest rental unit I would say it might be a four minute amble. Of course, they haul your luggage and all of that. We owned BH13 which is not a rental unit, the last one on the end. I enjoyed the walk until I met an orthopedic surgeon
Here are the floor plans
Playa Miguel Beach Houses, Roatan
A nice advantage to the Beach Houses is the usual private atmosphere of the standard CCV room is expanded physically to include a large pice of real estate. If you want to get an all-over tan, not likely that anyone will be intruding except the house-maid, and she don't care
As far as security, most anybody on Roatan with any sense has some sort of security. CCV and Playa Miguel are well protected 24/7. It is essentially on its own private island off of Roatan, has a professional level crew and is known as a "hard target". Unlike other resorts, no one is at CCV other than fellow guests and a small, long-term staff. I leave bright shiny objects unattended and in full view there all the time.
You are in for a first rate Caribbean dive experience. There are not many real-deal dive resorts out there anymore, but this is a perfect example of how one should be designed and operated. These pix are of the resort and show the standard rooms:
CoCoView Explained In Pictures Photos by Doc_Adelman | Photobucket
The diving is 24/7 and even at my doddering age I still manage to bang out 27 in a week. I dive this zone very shallow (on air) because that's where all the cool stuff is. This is micro/macro paradise... go very very slowly, take a flashlight, buy or bring a glass magnifier. Do a shore dive every night- the intact 140' wreck lies just in front- easy navigation so you can't get lost.
CCV is situated
in a very unique (4 mile long) u/w terrain compared to anywhere else on Roatan and in the Mar Caribe. Very
shallow walls that break in 5-30 fsw, dropping
vertically to the first sandy shelf at 90', bathed in
direct Sunlight throughout the day- this provides and extremely
florid environment that boats the
largest varieties of soft and hard corals. Hidden here, in plain view, is
the nursery for the reef, all the incredibly cool macro stuff. CCV is where the photographers stay and shoot for magazine covers. Diving varies dramatically in the Caribbean, no less so than it does on Roatan, depending upon where you go. This is
the u/w environment that is sought out by these seasoned divers-
it us unique in the Caribbean.
I dive 7 to 8 weeks each year, but when I ask my wife where
she wants to go, we're always returning "home" to Coco View.
