Aug 8, 2007
By popular demand: a cheaper scuba-diving week on Roatan Island, Honduras
Aghast that I could recommend paying $1,699 for a week-long air-and-dive-package to Roatan, one of the "Bay Islands" of Honduras, a number of users of this blog have asked whether Capricorn Leisure (the chief specialist to Honduras) has a cheaper alternative. I defend myself by pointing out that Capricorn's $1,699 package includes not simply airfare, seven nights at Anthony's Key Resort, airport-to-hotel transfers, three meals daily, and numerous extras, but also a complete week-long "dive package" (tanks, belt weights, boats twice daily, and all else), and is therefore cheap at the price. But Capricorn, when contacted by me, made the point that it does charge a cheaper $1,309 per person for all of the above features, but with accommodations at the beach-side Fantasy Island Resort in Roatan. Again, you receive all three meals and every element of equipment, transport, and dive accessories for a week spent under the sea (in twice-daily dives). Unlike Anthony's Key Resort, which consists of many individual bungalows much prized by scuba divers, Fantasy Island Resort is a one-building hotel, but one that apparently has a good reputation and many satisfied clients. Again, contact the 30-year-old Capricorn Leisure at tel. 800/426-6544, or www.capricorn.net.
Does anyone dispute that $1,309 for a complete, weeklong dive package, as well as accommodations, transfers, three meals daily and round-trip air from the States, is a deal-and-a-half for such a prized location?
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Does anyone dispute that $1,309 for a complete, weeklong dive package, as well as accommodations, transfers, three meals daily and round-trip air from the States, is a deal-and-a-half for such a prized location?
Write and read comments about this post.
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