roatan

Based on earlier advice on this newsgroup, I'm planning on 5 days in
roatan's west end. I hope to be snorkeling/freediving as much as possible
with my teenage son. So far I'm looking at:
Keifitos
Halfmoon bay cabins
Seabreeze
Bananarama
Fosters
Any comments or recommendations?
thanks
a

My 17 year old and I stayed in Seabreeze....secluded....reasonably
quiet.....I won't take anything but a studio with a kitchenette. I
don't need super deluxe accomodations. Quiet, clean, A/C and hot water
is all I need along with a kitchenette. I've stayed there twice, July
2003 and December 2004. Chilly and I were neighbors. Half Moon Bay for
snorkeling is about a 5 minute walk from Sea Breeze. West Bay Beach is
a short 25 lempira water taxi ride from West End Village where Sea
Breeze is. Next time we go...we again will stay in West End Village
area. We may check out other places but in any case....the place I take
has to have a fridge and at least a two burner hot plate.

The kid snorkels and scuba dives. She found a lot of interesting things
to see both at Wet Bay Beach and in Half Moon Bay.

When we were there in 2003, most of the people we flew over to the
Island with stayed in West Bay...and were in West End every night to
use the restaurants and bars and the grocery stores.

Sandi

We went to Roatan a few years ago with two teenage boys. We
stayed in West Bay at Bananarama (owned by a German couple
at the time, but there are new owners now.)
The beach was great with wonderful snorkelling just off the
shore.
We were there for the diving but the snokelling at West Bay
was great too.

West Bay is more secluded than West End (except when the
tour ship people come but they tend to stay together and
leave by the afternoon) and a bit more expensive for
restaurants, but the beach is better and it was easy and fun
to take the water taxis into town. (The seclusion and quiet
was a plus for us since we were at the end of a stressful
journey, but this will depend on you and your son's choices.)

I remember half Moon Bay Cabins in West end being very nice
as well. It had a great location, with snorkelling off the
rocks and a lovely breakfast area in the sahde on the
water's edge.

The cottages at Bananarama were very nice, set in grounds
near the beach but more secluded with flowers and banana
trees. We all liked it here- quiet, but with action nearby,
great seafood places, beautiful beach and the diving was
first rate. So was the snorkelling.

You will have a great time wherever you go.

a wrote:
> Based on earlier advice on this newsgroup, I'm planning on 5 days in
> roatan's west end. I hope to be snorkeling/freediving as much as possible
> with my teenage son. So far I'm looking at:
> Keifitos
> Halfmoon bay cabins
> Seabreeze
> Bananarama
> Fosters
> Any comments or recommendations?
> thanks
> a
>
>

>
> Really I meant the far E end, accesible by boat only. I saw somewhere that
> Rose (?) beach and the offshore cays Morat (?) have pristine patch and wall
> reef?

There is some nice reef and walls down there, that's where I go. However
good luck getting some one to take you. The water taxis will but I
wouldn't bet on them still being around when you surface. I can give you
the email of someone who might be willing for a price, but it won't be
cheap as that is a long haul from Oak Ridge when gas is $4/gallon and
you have a 130hp engine.



> Really I like a mix of both. With luck I'd like the opportunity to see some
> pelagics and also the chance to practice my freediving. I'm easily good to
> 30-40' and would like to have a place to try and double that.

Swim out a quarter mile from West Bay Beach - you can drop down the wall
and wave at Pepin. It goes to 1200-feet close in and several miles deep
another half mile out.