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Inn of Last Resort, May, 2005, by Nancy & Chuck Anson, CA, USA . Report 1733.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Roatan is a top notch dive destination. It is only a 2.5 hour flight from Houston on Continental. Airport immigration was slow. It took us half an hour to clear but we were told that they are working on improving this. We were met by an Inn of Last Resort representative in the baggage claim area who helped us through customs and got us and our bags to the resort’s van for a 20 minute ride to the Inn. The staff at the Inn of Last Resort made our stay EASY from the time we cleared immigrations until they returned us to the airport (printed boarding pass in hand). The meals were top notch with wait service at all three, (no buffets) linen table cloths and napkins, full place settings, 4 course dinners by candle light all deliciously prepared and served in an open air dinning room with a view. All the guest rooms are large, bright and clean with lots of storage space, a queen and two single beds, private bath and shower, A/C and ceiling fans, phone and NO TV (bring a book). It is only a few steps from the guest rooms to the dinning room, bar, library, lagoon, dive shop and pier. They do all your gear rinsing and setup for you (this is a new service since our last stay) and they offer 3 dives per day. Most dive sites are within 10 to 20 minutes of the resort and even though you do your surface intervals back at the Inn, they provide fresh fruit and towels on the boat after each dive. There are two (soon to be three) covered wooden dive boats that can easily accommodate 18 divers each. Tanks are aluminum 80’s (filled consistently to 3000 psi) and sit behind the dive bench along both sides of the boat with storage beneath. Entry is a giant stride off the back of the boat. The diving offers a variety of gently sloping and vertical walls that either drop down to a sandy shelf between 80’and 150’ or into the abyss depending on your location. The topography of the walls is a welcome mix of mounts, pinnacles, cuts and grooves with a variety of swim throughs and caves. Healthy plate coral covers some of the walls providing hiding places for moray eels, lobster and large crabs. Large barrel sponges, smaller iridescent sponges, sea fans, gorgonians, elk horn and soft corals attract a myriad of sea life. Small schools of creole wrasse and blue tang were present on many dives as were barracuda. There were curious groupers and dog snappers along the walls accompanied by horse eyed jacks and several hawksbill turtles. The night dive at Fish Den was great. We saw lots of basket stars, spiny lobsters, tiny shrimp and crabs, an octopus, and a green moray. We did a night dive in the resort’s lagoon and found scorpion fish, barracuda, octopus, lobster, shrimp, crabs, squirrelfish, grouper, and anemones. One highlight of our trip came on the last dive day when the boat captain spotted a pod of 20 pilot whales and took us out in the deep water to snorkel with them. CAUTION: Be sure to bring your favorite bug spray and lots of it. The no-see-ums have finally discovered that there is a constant supply of divers to munch on at the Inn. They seemed to enjoy us as much as we enjoyed the diving!
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Sonora Bay Mexico, Loreto Mexico, Bonaire, Roatan, Belize, San Salvador, Grand Turk, St. Croix, St. Vincent, Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, Little Cayman, Fiji, Carriacou, Cozumel, Nassau, Cat Island, Hawaii
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm, noCurrents
Water Temp	82-84°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	0
Water Visibility	80-100 Ft/ 24-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Stay above 130', no deco diving, back on board with 500 psi, no stated time limit unless it was a drift dive, then everyone surfaced together.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	>2
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	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Staff was experienced at camera handling. Large, seperate camera rinse bucket onboard. A large central area on the boat where cameras could be stored and worked on but it was not padded, could become a wet area, and had no air facilities. Resort had no parts or processing.

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Dive Review of Inn of Last Resort in Honduras/Roatan

Inn of Last Resort, May, 2005,

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Dive Review of Inn of Last Resort in
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