Roatan

Bruce Dickson · Issue 18, Apr/May 2004 · pp. 22–26

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22 Roatan with Bruce Dickson ‘‘A 100 foot wall a snorkel away from the bar’’. So reads the advertising, and it is very close to reality. There are very few dive destinations anywhere that offer beach diving as convenient as CoCo View Resort on the Bay Island of Roatan, situated 40 miles from the mainland of Honduras in Central America. The rooms and facilities may be simple and comfortable rather than luxurious, the menu is more home cooking than gourmet, the visibility less than perfect on occasion, and yet CoCo View boasts one of the highest return guest rates of any dive resort in the Caribbean. I recently completed my tenth trip, and I keep returning for the laid back atmosphere and lack of rules, which is not to say there is anything sloppy or laid back about the running of the resort and the dive operation. Boats run exactly on schedule with expert, attentive crews, full tanks are …