Join “The” Dive Shop for 7 nights at Roatan’s CoCo View Resort! Spend your days diving or snorkeling on the second largest barrier reef in the world, and your nights
enjoying homemade dinners at the on-site restaurant.
With a wide variety of dive sites and profiles: including wall dives, channel dives, tunnels, shallow and deep reefs, and spur-and-groove diving. There is something for everyone! Experience dives in Spooky Channel, which received its name as a result of the dramatic scenes created by sunlight filtering in though the channel’s opening. Often described as resembling an underwater Grand Canyon, Spooky Channel’s wide shelves house giant parrotfish, eagle rays, turtles, stone fish, octopus and large green morays. Plus the island's only 24/7 unlimited beach diving to the CoCo View Wall, Newman's wall, the wreck of the Prince Albert, and the CoCo View Channel.
When you are not enjoying the lush, diverse underwater world, Roatan offers a variety of topside activities for the adventure-seeker in all of us. Whether you are horseback riding along the beach, flying through the jungle canopy on a zip-line, white water rafting on the mainland, snorkeling with dolphins, or taking advantage of one the many land or eco tours, you are guaranteed a unique experience. 12 lucky vacationers can enjoy all of what Roatan has to offer, ask the travel office about availability
Sport Diver Magazine has this to say about CoCo View:
Nobody has ever met a stranger at CoCo View, the legendary dive resort on Roatan’s south-central coast. I hadn’t been there 10 minutes when a woman passed me on the dock at sunset. “Isn’t it great?” she asked. “I’ve been here six times; it’s one of the few places I come back to.”
CoCo View is the kind of place that stays booked with repeat customers, where the number-one guest comment is: “Don’t change anything while we’re gone,” says Deb Karlson, who with her husband, Mitch, manages the resort. The reasons for the near-fanatical loyalty are many: While CoCo View’s substantial boats can get you anywhere around the island in comfort — check out their trademark “moon well” bottom-side entry — the 24/7 unlimited shore diving here makes you wonder why you really need a boat at all. Guests can choose the “drop-off” — boat out, swim back — a favorite with divers like Harold Owens, “the king of the long drop-off,” Mitch says. How long was it? “Three and a half hours,” says Owens — who was making a record-setting 94th visit — with a small smile.
Heavy on the Texans who can get to Roatan so easily from Houston, the all-inclusive resort offers a Texas-size welcome to anybody who just wants to dive, dive, dive. “We call this place Adult Dive Camp,” Mitch says, and the charmingly rustic, exposed-wood construction of the main buildings and over-water cabanas and bungalows does put one in mind of a summer camp, minus the kids — children under 10 are not accepted — and plus one terrific bartender. (Don’t leave without trying the signature Monkey LaLa — a mix of Baileys, Kahlua, dark rum and coconut cream.)
Before you dive into the house concoction, consider what beckons just off the end of the dock. An orientation dip required of all divers — you’ll be glad of this when you try to find your way home from that first drop-off — introduces you to CoCo View’s front yard: two spectacular walls, a DC-3 and the 140-foot Prince Albert, its stern festooned like a departing luxury liner with gaily waving life lined up at the rails.
As legendary underwater filmmaker Stan Waterman — an annual guest at the resort — has been heard to say, CoCo View is the closest you can get to a live-aboard on land. “It’s all about hard-core diving here,” Mitch says. |
