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Dive Review of Laguna Beach in
Honduras/Utila

Laguna Beach, Jun, 2005,

by Brian Morrow, GA, USA . Report 1800.

No photos available at this time

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

Accommodations 4 stars Food 3 stars
Service and Attitude 4 stars Environmental Sensitivity N/A
Dive Operation 5 stars Shore Diving 3 stars
Snorkeling N/A
Value for $$ N/A
Beginners 4 stars
Advanced 3 stars
Comments We were supposed to be on the Bay Islands Aggressor but since it was taken out of service we were offered the Laguna Beach Resort. Factoring in the the trade-off of liveaboard for land-based, the Laguna Beach Resort was nice. The dive boats are uncrowded and would be fine even with a full house. The divemasters and boat captains are very accommodating. Dives are guided but the divemasters factor in the group's skill set and adjusts. There are few fish of any kind and the corals run the gamut from very healthy and colorful to severely damaged...sometimes at the same site. We did see a glimpse of a whale shark, snorkeled with a pod of dolphins and saw frogfish and seahorses which most folks would think would make the week.

The staff of Laguna Beach Resort really go all out to serve you. We enjoyed our cabin. The food was tastey but there was not the variety we have seen at other places. There were 16 guests (out of 36 capacity) the week we were there which may explain the variety.

No see-ums are BAD if the wind is not blowing.

Overall impressions - we enjoyed the diving more for the dive teams and the people on our boat than the underwater sites. Likely, we would not return...but we are liveaboard divers and rarely do a land-based dive vacation.

Reporter and Travel

Dive Experience 251-500 dives
Where else diving Mainly Caribbean - Belize, Little Cayman, Turks & Caicos
Closest Airport Getting There

Dive Conditions

Weather sunny Seas choppy, noCurrents
Water Temp 83-87°F / 28-31°C Wetsuit Thickness 2
Water Visibility 30-75 Ft/ 9-23 M

Dive Policy

Dive own profile yes
Enforced diving restrictions Dives were guided
Liveaboard? no Nitrox Available? N/A

What I Saw

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

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

Subject Matter 3 stars Boat Facilities 3 stars
Overall rating for UWP's N/A Shore Facilities 4 stars
UW Photo Comments [None]
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