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Dive Review of Inn of Last Resort in
Honduras/Roatan

Inn of Last Resort, Apr, 2005,

by Susan Sampson, WA, USA . Report 1662.

No photos available at this time

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

Accommodations 4 stars Food 5 stars
Service and Attitude 4 stars Environmental Sensitivity N/A
Dive Operation 3 stars Shore Diving 3 stars
Snorkeling N/A
Value for $$ N/A
Beginners 4 stars
Advanced 3 stars
Comments Diving was easy, with no current at all to contend with. The boats are spacious, with plenty of shade, slow but steady, but speed doesn't matter because the dive sites are close in. The sites were typical Caribbean: reefs and walls lush with healthy coral and sponges, turtles, and colorful fish (wrasses, butterflies, parrotfish, squirrelfish, moray eels, barracuda, & puffers). Because the area is a marine preserve, many large grouper have been spared over-fishing. Dive masters located several seahorses and a rare pipefish. Night divers saw octopi and lobsters. Dive masters were responsive to our requests to slow down and show us critters on dives where it was necessary to descend and ascend together to avoid boat traffic, and had no objection to our diving our own profiles any other time.

An exceptional feature of the resort is a lagoon on site, almost too shallow for scuba, that affords a slow-moving photographer plenty of opportunity to spend two or three hours of bottom time per tank, seeing nearly everything found on the walls and reef.

The resort is clean and comfortable and the food very good. The managers are striving to offer land-based activity, as well, ranging from a barbeque with fire dancers and singers ( the "Burrito Brothers" really stunk), and off-site rain forest canopy rides on cables, dolphin swims, and shark-chumming (which we passed up). The best entertainment was the resort's pair of Amazon parrots, which talk constantly.

Reporter and Travel

Dive Experience 101-250 dives
Where else diving Extensive Caribbean diving; Fiji, Palau, Yap
Closest Airport Getting There

Dive Conditions

Weather sunny Seas calm, noCurrents
Water Temp 81-0°F / 27--18°C Wetsuit Thickness 3
Water Visibility 70-80 Ft/ 21-24 M

Dive Policy

Dive own profile yes
Enforced diving restrictions There was a little tendency to herd divers if the boat was off the mooring. Camera folks had to make it clear they wanted to do their own thing and were left alone. Stay less than 130 and no deco.
Liveaboard? no Nitrox Available? N/A

What I Saw

Sharks None Mantas None
Dolphins None Whale Sharks None
Turtles > 2 Whales None
Corals 3 stars Tropical Fish 3 stars
Small Critters 4 stars Large Fish 3 stars
Large Pelagics 1 stars

Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

Subject Matter N/A Boat Facilities N/A
Overall rating for UWP's 3 stars Shore Facilities N/A
UW Photo Comments Boats had separate, large tanks for cameras and masks.
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