Yes, CCV has been reviewed a bazillion times. But, one more won't hurt. Just returned last night and wanted to post this quickly to thank all my "advisors" on this site. This was our 2nd trip, the first one was 5 years ago. This report will highlight the slight differences noticed.
Resort: Still clean nice cabana units over the water. My wife is pondering seeking to be the handy person for the resort (ah, retirement) to do some bathroom re-grouting, floor refinishing, and a few things here and there, but it's all still good.
Food: Better than 5 years ago but still not so hot for vegetarians. They did offer veggie burgers on bugger day and tried an eggplant dish but spouse usually went for rice and beans as the protein. Breakfasts were great for all.
Staff: Actually seemed friendlier this trip. More outgoing and easy to chat with. Always helpful.
Music provided was new and enjoyable. Maybe we just went to sleep too early last time.
Diving: As before, outstanding set-up for ease of diving lots and lots. Eddie and Jorge were great DM and boat captain, as before. Boats all in good shape.
The dives: Walls still have tons of hard coral and sea fans, not lots of color, but good structure. Nice sandy channels along wall to explore. Some decent schools of blue tang and wrasses. Happy to see the schools of fish. Lots of free swimming green moreys and many in wall sightings. The expected seahorses and nice experiences with squid, 20 in one school that just hung around to play.
The small stuff. After seeing peacock mantis shrimp in Indonesia last year I didn't know what to expect from Roatan mantis shrimp. I became obsessed. Many, many sightings in little holes mostly in the Front Yard. Lots of cool little crabs and some shrimp that I hadn't seen before. Octopus on the night dives.
The unfortunate: Viz was 20-30 feet most dives. Water was a bit colder than expected, but that's on us. We went in August last time and didn't adjust expectations enough. Sea a bit rough a day or two but not too bad. Really it was the viz being what it was that seemed so different from last visit.
Thanks, CajunDiva and Doc for the advice. We could not go to the sights you suggested as it was too far for the boat staff to "get away with" taking us. Our group had the whole boat so it was more how late we'd be getting back.
All in all, a nice week trip with 24 dives that we enjoyed for what they were.
A few pics.
Rob
Resort: Still clean nice cabana units over the water. My wife is pondering seeking to be the handy person for the resort (ah, retirement) to do some bathroom re-grouting, floor refinishing, and a few things here and there, but it's all still good.
Food: Better than 5 years ago but still not so hot for vegetarians. They did offer veggie burgers on bugger day and tried an eggplant dish but spouse usually went for rice and beans as the protein. Breakfasts were great for all.
Staff: Actually seemed friendlier this trip. More outgoing and easy to chat with. Always helpful.
Music provided was new and enjoyable. Maybe we just went to sleep too early last time.
Diving: As before, outstanding set-up for ease of diving lots and lots. Eddie and Jorge were great DM and boat captain, as before. Boats all in good shape.
The dives: Walls still have tons of hard coral and sea fans, not lots of color, but good structure. Nice sandy channels along wall to explore. Some decent schools of blue tang and wrasses. Happy to see the schools of fish. Lots of free swimming green moreys and many in wall sightings. The expected seahorses and nice experiences with squid, 20 in one school that just hung around to play.
The small stuff. After seeing peacock mantis shrimp in Indonesia last year I didn't know what to expect from Roatan mantis shrimp. I became obsessed. Many, many sightings in little holes mostly in the Front Yard. Lots of cool little crabs and some shrimp that I hadn't seen before. Octopus on the night dives.
The unfortunate: Viz was 20-30 feet most dives. Water was a bit colder than expected, but that's on us. We went in August last time and didn't adjust expectations enough. Sea a bit rough a day or two but not too bad. Really it was the viz being what it was that seemed so different from last visit.
Thanks, CajunDiva and Doc for the advice. We could not go to the sights you suggested as it was too far for the boat staff to "get away with" taking us. Our group had the whole boat so it was more how late we'd be getting back.
All in all, a nice week trip with 24 dives that we enjoyed for what they were.
A few pics.
Rob
It's great to hear you had a great time. It's amazing how when you go back and look at your pictures after the trip, there seems to be so much more color! Those underwater flashes work miracles 
