Dive Review of Anthony’s Key Resort in
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Anthony’s Key Resort: "Almost back to normal", Mar, 2021, by Joel Horie, UT, US ( Sr. Contributor 22 reports with 14 Helpful votes). Report 11645 has 2 Helpful votes.
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Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	Flew American via DFW to Roatan. Had 3 in our party and American lost all our checked luggage. Another two passengers on our flight from DFW also were missing their checked dive bags. Our bags arrived the next afternoon and Anthonys Key staff picked them up and delivered them to our rooms. We had to rent gear for our first day diving. Everything felt the same as previous visits, just the staff and most guests wearing masks. The airport pickup and guest briefing and signing were efficient, with many familiar faces among the staff. You could make COVID test appointments for the resort clinic, with the front desk. If you can, make your appointments as soon as you know your schedule for the week. Work is slowly progressing on the new reception and dining building; it has a roof on it, but no walls. The dockside facilities were in good shape. The locker room is the same, but the tank room and Nitrox prep area has moved into the room next to the gear rental/repair shop. There is still no dedicated camera room, but there is an outdoor table next to a large camera rinse tank. Three large cement troughs are spaced along the dock to rinse gear. The dive boats line up along the face dock and you carry your gear to and from the lockers. We had rooms on the north side of the key. A little quieter(not that the key is noisy), but a longer walk to the water shuttle. The pool bar was open, but the all day coffee at the pool was not set out. The landslide bar and restaurant were operating normally and the food was the best of our three visits to AKR. We went out to Blue Bahia, one night, with everyone our our boat, for the all you can eat lion fish. Not a must do, but a nice change of pace at their waterside restaurant. Dive master David (I think he’s the only David) took care of us all week. If you want to see specific things, he’s good at finding them for you( seahorses, juvenile mantis, etc). After our first stay, we always ask to be on his boat. The first two days were overcast and rainy, with a strong swell from the north east. We bussed over to the south side for two days of diving. If you do that, they have you assemble you gear on the dock in the morning and they truck it over and put it on the boats for you. Mary’s Place was as good as usual, with healthy coral and a small school of jacks meeting us after we swam through the crack. AKRs sister property, Maya Key was closed, so we didn’t make the usual lunch stop on the south side. The waves calmed down and we seen the last four days on the usual northside sites. The sealife seemed about the same. Largest things were, turtles, a few sharks, eagle rays, sting rays, some big snappers and Nassau groupers. I think the west ends sites and Mary’s Place are my favorites. Our party of four all did the Snorkel with dolphins. We had done the Action swim before, but this was just as much fun. The snorkel has you in waist deep water and they do demonstrations with the dolphin directly in front of you. After that, you have about 20 minutes of free swim in the large pen. The dolphins can chose to swim with you or not. They might play fetch with a piece of sea grass. They seemed to like it, when a puny human tries to swim fast in a straight line. They swam right next to me for a while and then took off, or cut in front of me. If you don’t care to attend one of the dolphin programs, you can still ride the water shuttle to Bailey’s can watch from the dock for free. They do open water training with the dolphins some times, when the dive boats are out. Overall, the resort was running as normal, our rooms and all the facilities were in good shape and maintenance had obviously been kept up during the slow down over the winter. The resort is well run, efficient. A great all inclusive way to dive and then relax on your bungalow hammock.
Websites	Anthony’s Key Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Hawaii, Belize, Grand Cayman, Socal, Bonaire, Roatan, Cabo Pulmo, Cozumel
Closest Airport	RTB	Getting There	American, United, hopefully other US carriers
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy, cloudy, dry	Seas	calm, choppy
Water Temp	85-87°F / 29-31°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	80-120 Ft/ 24-37 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Stay together and in sight. If no current, DM will let you finish on your own pairs, near the boat. If current, group finishes and surfaces together.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	1 or 2	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	No charging facilities near the boat dock and lockers. If you need to charge between dive sorties, it means a hunt on the landslide buildings or water shuttle back to your room.

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Dive Review of Anthony’s Key Resort in Honduras

Anthony’s Key Resort: "Almost back to normal", Mar, 2021,

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Dive Review of Anthony’s Key Resort in
Honduras