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Inn of Last Resort, May, 2006, by Pat Sinclair, FL, USA ( Top Contributor 31 reports with 10 Helpful votes). Report 2519.
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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	ILR doesn’t supply many amenities in the rooms, no hair dryer, no TV and worst of all, no alarm clock. Be aware, and remember to bring a hair dryer and alarm clock for yourself. We discovered that the DM and boat crews would handle our gear for us both between dives and after diving was complete for the day. Juergen was our dive master. I understand he has only been with ILR for 2 weeks. The entire group for our boat was comprised of 14 divers to the one DM. We saw a good sized hawksbill turtle on our first dive, I have never seen a turtle while diving in Roatan before. 1st incident: 3rd dive of the 1st day, at El Aquario (78 feet max depth and 65 minutes) we managed to lose our DM. Apparently what happened was 2 divers got low on air and signaled Juergen that they needed to go to the boat. He, without telling anyone in the 12 left, took them to the boat and attempted to come back and find his group of 12. We, as a group, motoced we weremissing a DM, decided to stick together and figure out where the boat was and return to it, which we did, we had a very unhappy DM who thought we should have stayed put, which we would have done, had he told anyone in the 12 where he had gone and why. 2nd incident: The sun was in my eyes as I walked on the dock to the boat, my foot caught on something and needless to say, I tripped and fell. The DM from the other boat told me that the cord stretching across the dock (at a height of 4 inches off the dock deck) to my dive boat’s battery was a hazard that he had told the management was going to cause an accident and he was sorry that I had been hurt. Well, my knee was pretty whacked, but I figured it would eventually heal. Upon inspection, the camera looked to be ok, and so did the housing. I decided to take it on the dive, and it flooded. I spoke with the owner of ILR who had only “Oh, that is too bad that happened”, “we will replace that cord on the dock with something longer”, and “we have done that for 10 years and no one before has ever been hurt or lost equipment” to say. When leaving I spoke iwth her again, and finally got a reduction of $250 from our bill for the camera, far less than it was worth, but better than nothing. The cord was replaced the same day of my fall, btw, with a longer one and the cord was not stretched out, 4 inches off the deck anymore during my stay there. Other Stuff: on almost every dive we did there were three or more large black grouper or one or two large snappers hanging around like puppy dogs under the boat. Occasionally they would even stay with us for the entire dive. We saw the occasional great barracuda, but we never saw any sharks of any kind or any rays of any kind during the whole week’s diving. There were lots of macro life (cleaner shrimp, secretary blennies, etc) and tons of fish life around on the reefs. The turtles were wonderful to see and swim with as well. The Diving: My husband and I both agreed the reefs and walls on this end of the island, as well as the wrecks provided something for just about everyone dive-wise. We really loved most of the dives (Spooky Channel and Bear’s Crack were not among those we liked!) Bottom line: the bottom times were great – we got nearly 20 hours in 18 dives, the dive master was not. The food was OK (single menu served at table – take it or leave it and some of it was JUST ok and none of it great) and the rooms were nice and well kept. It was great to have someone else handle your gear for you, but is not something that will make me pick a resort. Will we return to this resort? We might, the diving alone is worth it. The resort is up for sale, so perhaps soemone with better food ideas and more care for what happens at the dock and dive shop will buy it - that would make it a perfect place!
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Fl Keys, Roatan Honduras, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, North Bimini Island Bahamas, Cozumel, Flower Gardens Texas,
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	choppy, noCurrents
Water Temp	78-82°F / 26-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	0
Water Visibility	20-80 Ft/ 6-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Dive to Comnputer, stay relatively together, no deper than 100
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
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Nothing on shore to help you - you can take equipment to your room. On boat, separate camera rinse tank, that divers tried always to use for masks. There is a tv which you can hook up to and view your digital shots, nothing availalbe for the film shooters though.

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Dive Review of Inn of Last Resort in Honduras

Inn of Last Resort, May, 2006,

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Dive Review of Inn of Last Resort in
Honduras