Dive Review of Bay Island Beach Resort in
Honduras/Roatan

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Bay Island Beach Resort, Aug, 2008, by Ted Kern, TX, USA ( Reviewer 4 reports with 2 Helpful votes). Report 4340.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling
Overall Rating
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Comments	The staff at the resort went out of their way to make our stay wonderful! Of all the places we have stayed in Roatan, Bay Island has been the best for service. The food was good, but don't expect gourmet or gringo restaurant food. This is all home made served buffet style with always 2 choices of a main course, usually rice or some kind of starch like potatoes, always fresh vegetables and fruit at each meal, and if you don't like the buffet you were allowed to order a burger/chicken sandwich/hot dog/ or fish sandwich at any meal. There was always plenty of food even with the 28 guests that were there. The rooms were sparse but had every thing you could need on a dive trip. All rooms have A/C and hot and cold water. The water comes from 1 of 2 wells that are on the property and is safe to drink. The furnishings are bare and the rooms show their age of being in an island atmosphere for a long time. However the bed slept great, and every day the made would make a flower arrangement on your bed after perfectly cleaning your room each day. The dive operation on site makes life convenient. With a big gear locker close to the dock and the dive masters always willing to carry your gear to the boat, gear handling was easy. The boats are 42 foot and set up for diving. Each handles 10 divers if you are willing to share some space and move a bit to help others gear up. Entry was giant stride of the back with 1 ladder at the stern to gain entry to the boat. The grounds of the resort are well groomed and raked often, making shoes obsolete for the entire week we were there. Snorkeling directly off the shore was also good with several of our group spotting octopus, squid, and spotted eagle rays in the grass! The small size of the resort (14 rooms total) makes this place ideal for families. The staff is also more than willing to help set up off property tours such as zip lining, horse back riding, snorkeling with dolphins, or just a tourist trip to the West End for t-shirt shopping. All in all it was a great trip and our group of 20 all came home with smiles. I certainly would return here in the future.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	All of the Bay Islands, Cozumel, Belize, Bonaire, Caymans, Turks & Caicos, Saba, St. Kitts, Palau, Yap, Galapagos, Mahahual, Chinchorro Banks
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy	Seas	calm
Water Temp	80-82°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	70-100 Ft/ 21-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Recreational depth limits, dive time limited by computer or air consumption.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	The Bay Islands are known for their macro life that is only over shadowed by Bonaire. This trip did not disappoint with numerous spotted drums, lettuce leaf slugs, juvy trunk fish, nudibranchs, and Pederson cleaning shrimp always willing to clean your hand if needed. There are several large black grouper and dog snapper as well as a couple of wrecks that make for good wide angle shots, and the walls still have large barrel sponges and gorgonians that make for good composition with divers. There is a separate rinse tank at the dive shop for camera equipment, and they place a bucket on board each boat. However with 5 photo bugs on each boat the bucket was not large enough to accommodate the cameras. There are no camera tables on the boat or at the dive shop however. It was easy to walk the 10 feet to the restaurant and use one of the tables there to make any changes on your housing.

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Dive Review of Bay Island Beach Resort in Honduras/Roatan

Bay Island Beach Resort, Aug, 2008,

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Dive Review of Bay Island Beach Resort in
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