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Yesterday I returned from a very nice week of diving at Fantasy Island in Roatan. The place is a good hotel with excellent food and a well run diving operation.
All meals are served buffet style on attractive granite counters with built in steam tables or chilling areas. It is resort quality food bearing no resemblence to what is available at many so called dive camps.
The rooms are standard hotel rooms with two double beds, a good sized bathroom and cable TV. The buildings have been recently painted and the lobby looks like a real resort hotel lobby, not a dive camp.
Diving is at the same sites used by Coco View. On the bay of Honduras colorful sponges and yellowtail snapper abound. A 30 pound dogtooth snapper hung around the sites to the west of the channel. There is an occasional seahorse, squid, juvenile spotted drum, or eagle ray. All dives are wall dives with the top of the wall in anywhere from 45 to 12 feet of water. My dives were from 55 to 60 minutes long, three boat dives per day. I did one "shore dive" which was actually a drop off dive over the Prince Albert from a small skiff. The divemaster was a cheerful local man who was good at finding stuff and did not act like scuba cop.
All that for $750 per week double ocupancy, $815 single, plus 12% sales tax. By the way, the bar has happy hour from 5 to 6 daily with half price drinks. Local beer is $2.25 including tax. Don't forget to bring DEET.
All meals are served buffet style on attractive granite counters with built in steam tables or chilling areas. It is resort quality food bearing no resemblence to what is available at many so called dive camps.
The rooms are standard hotel rooms with two double beds, a good sized bathroom and cable TV. The buildings have been recently painted and the lobby looks like a real resort hotel lobby, not a dive camp.
Diving is at the same sites used by Coco View. On the bay of Honduras colorful sponges and yellowtail snapper abound. A 30 pound dogtooth snapper hung around the sites to the west of the channel. There is an occasional seahorse, squid, juvenile spotted drum, or eagle ray. All dives are wall dives with the top of the wall in anywhere from 45 to 12 feet of water. My dives were from 55 to 60 minutes long, three boat dives per day. I did one "shore dive" which was actually a drop off dive over the Prince Albert from a small skiff. The divemaster was a cheerful local man who was good at finding stuff and did not act like scuba cop.
All that for $750 per week double ocupancy, $815 single, plus 12% sales tax. By the way, the bar has happy hour from 5 to 6 daily with half price drinks. Local beer is $2.25 including tax. Don't forget to bring DEET.
