Royal Playa Dive Resort
Travel Blogs from Roatan
The last day on Roatan and the night dive!
... for the same price though ;) felt really **** before the dive though, think the sun had really taken it out of me as I was really shaky. I clearly needed sugar and then the doughnut lady came round and I had NO money, where's Stacey (also doing the night dive) when you need her! Played with a little land crab and chatted to all the dive master trainees for a bit before I had to watch the night dive video. I'm really going to miss people here! The video was pretty ...
Diving with sharks, big fuck off ones!
... had an uncomfortable bouncy boat ride out to the site. Then once we got into the water, the phrase don't judge a book by its cover rang true. this was sick!
We all positioned our selves under a reef shelf space thing so that our backs were protected, while the local brought the sharkies in with his burly bucket. i had unintentionally positioned myself in the best possie, on the ...
Roatan en de reis naar Nicaragua
... we mee naar de douane. Hier bleek dat we maar 12 dollar pp moesten betalen. De handyman uit de bus ritselde wat met de douanier en stempelde zelf de paspoorten. Er werd steeds geld in broekzakken, en overhemden gestopt; zag er allemaal betrouwbaar uit. We vroegen waarom we moesten betalen en kregen hier geen antwoord op. Uiteindelijk toen we de stempels in ons pasoort hadden gekregen en een vaag bonnetje voor een deel van het betaalde geld vroeg Marcel nog even of de beste ...
So, Did you get robbed yet?
... in a little more, and your chances of getting ripped off with decline significantly!
So from what we hear, robberies are pretty common here in Roatan unfortunately. Some of them are targeting tourists riding scooters around the island that have wandered off the main road or people walking by themselves late at night. Its a tough call sometimes deciding to leave your valuables in your room, or ...
Beaches by day, West End by night
... to want to sit down and each evening when we turned up we were able to secure the two chairs and have an entertaining hour or two watching the world go by. St Patricks Day was especially rowdy as green leprechauns with American accents staggered up and down the road. Then Sunday night arrived and it was like a ghost town. Everywhere was shuttered up by 10.00pm. Not such a lively resort then!
Initially we had had misgivings about our extended stay ...