Roatan (and Utila) Basics

Activities on Roatan- swimming with the dolphins at Anthony's Key, playing with the monkeys at Gumbalimba park, ziplining, sailing, horsebackriding, parasailing, submarine, dune buggies, snorkeling, botanical gardens, mangrove tour, iguana farm. If you send me a pm with your email address, I can send you a listing of activities and their pricing.

Tegus to Roatan- fastest is flying. CM Airlines has a direct flight in the mornings (www.cmairlines.com). Other domestic carriers are SOSA, TACA and a new one called Easy Sky that's been offering really great airfares (500 lemp from La Ceiba to Roatan- not sure what they have from Tegus).

Catamaran sailing with "Vern" on the Nina Elisabeth II, Roatan to Utila 7 AM arrives 12 AM

Utila to Roatan 11 AM arrives 3 PM

www.bayislandconnection.com 3346-2600 / 3303-2322 / 3303-2328

(I did this on a marginal sailing day last January. I would not go again unless calm weather were assured. A load of sick puppies were disgorged onto Utila around 2000 hr.)

Hedman Alas runs several busses a day between Teguc and La Ceiba. Roughly 4 hours so depending on your schedule that might be faster than waiting on a plane and you get to see some country side. Then take the Tropical Wave at 4:30pm directly to Roatan. (Brand new bigger boat) There is a new three island ferry going into service in early October, run buy the Galexy people. (Vern no longer has a mast for the sail boat so its mortoring each way)

I would avoid any captive dolphin encounters mentioned above.

The website says Roatán > Utila 1-5pm and Utila > Roatán 6:30-10:30am. We'll consider doing that this summer - thanks for the website, eddy!

mkdewar - Do you know anything about the new ferry's schedule? Does it go between the islands? We'd love to return to Guanaja (spent 2 weeks there in 2008) but historically it's been trickier to arrange transport there. I think this summer we'll split a few weeks between Roatán and Utila and would be especially interested in a new ferry that made that trip. Thanks for posting!

It's really only 4 hours between Teguc and La Ceiba? It doesn't go through San Pedro Sula? I would have thought each leg would be ~3 hours (though I haven't made that trip myself).

I think mdewar has Tegus confused for San Pedro Sula. Tegus to La Ceiba is about 8 hours in bus, need to go through San Pedro Sula en route.

hopefulist- if there's no inter-island ferry (hadn't heard about this), Blue Bahia had started up a charter boat to Guanaja that sounded good. Also sometimes private charters from the east end of the island, but no regular scheduled boat yet.

Thanks, island - I'll keep my ears open. I think next summer we'll probably do a week each on Roatán and Utila but we'll head back to Guanaja eventually. Last time we flew but flights were few and far between. Happy trails!