Corn Island Hotels

- 8 months - 7 x 2 countries - 6 pairs of shoes - 5 star hotels? Err, no. - 4 better or worse - 3 continents - 2 willing participants - 1 ton soup - 0 Korean, Japanese, or Spanish spoken by either of us at time of departure

... can be quite useful excuses to spoil oneself a little... The flight was easy, with a short, 5 minute layover in Bluefields. Big Corn Island has one paved road which runs the periphery of the island. A cab from anywhere to anywhere costs about ...

... then on to big corn island where we took a taxi to the dock and then a water taxi 30 min ride across the ocean to little corn island this place is beautiful. they had a special going on if you stayed 3 nights or more the deluxe cabana was 50 a night ...

... lovely white sand beaches and lots of sunshine but the people are very withdrawn and not at all interested in the tourist.  Big Corn Island is actually quite small and probably has two resorts and under 30 other lodgings.  The main street is not ...

... the plank floor was rotting away. We spent a couple hours there then headed back to Picnic Center which has the best beach on the island. Picnic Center is ripe for a prime beach spot in the coming years, right now has a three places for beer and food, ...

... , etc., but I think that the heat and the strike finally wore us down and we needed a vacation from our travels, and Little Corn Island was the perfect place for that. I spent my first 4 days doing my Rescue Diver training with Dive Little Corn. It was ...

... op zich niet erg, maar de prijs die ze ervoor vragen is hoger dan wat ik gisteren voor de luxe kamer bij Mark op Big Corn Island heb betaald. De bedragen staan voor geen meter in verhouding tot elkaar. Na alle drie de opties te hebben bekeken, ben ik nog ...

... the same thing, until we find someone who points to the building next to them, and then we know. Anyways, we finally arrived on Big Corn Island after a 20 minute flight. We went to take the boat over to Little Corn Island, but it had left at 4 30. So we ...

... vacation after five months of hard work and tries to find the still missing castaways from Gilligan's Island.  First stop,  Little Corn Island in Nicaragua. First of all, to get to Little Corn island, one must some how arrive at Big Corn Island ...

... works to Casey and she eventually got way in to the game. We had to leave the game early to catch our boat over to Little Corn Island. This was a quick calm ride. We walked to the far side of the island and settled into a small bamboo walled cabin with a ...

... a twin-prop plane to head east. After one brief stop and a short water crossing we arrived at Big Corn Island. We drove around to a few different hotels and eventually had to split up because there wasn't a hotel with enough room to accommodate our group. ...

... either sand flies or high prices, dirty beaches or over development, thieving locals or loud Americans with all inclusive wrist bands. However Little Corn Island is as close to perfect as our bed there was close to the sea. It's not hard to get to, but ...

... filled sky. It had stopped raining in the night and the sun was now shining. As we boarded the speed boat to the Little Corn island, we shook hands with our friend from the night before, exchanging wide grins and a slap on the back. The speedboat set off ...

... other side.... basically a small metal hut for going in, and leaving.... we thought we would stay up to a week on the larger corn island, and the latter week on the smaller.  however our plans quickly changed with  a few hours of landing on ...

... sand beaches and turquoise blue water couldn´t be overshadowed. The ferry pulls into the bay on the west side of the island where the majority of hotels and restaurants are. We were met on the dock by several hotel and dive shop staff members but none ...

... have to wait until 2pm to catch the boat back there. While we were waiting, Tori and I decided we would look at hotels on the other side of the island, just to see. We found a great one run by a friendly guy from Austin, TX, where Tori and Brigette ...

... ' ŕ la derniere minute de louer une petite voiture plutot qu'un camper.  En général on a couché dans des hotels "backpackers" dans les villes et dans des "cabines"/campings dans les plus petites villes ou en campagne. Partout on a ...

... next destination, we returned to Pittsburgh for one day before packing up and leaving again for another week. Destination: Edisto Island, South Carolina. I know. This travelogue was supposed to be about our trip to France, right? Well, I'm including ...

... gave great views of Bluefields, definitely the best way to see it, and up the coast to Pearl Lagoon & across to Great Corn Island, which sadly was not that good close up. Had originally intended to spend the first and last nights there, but having ...

... our expectations and about 30 mins later we arrived on Little Corn.  The beach was large and palm fringed with several hotels and looked bigger than we were anticipating.  There are no cars on the island just lots of wheel barrows to transport ...