Diving in Honduras
                      May 02-09, 1997
                   by Carl L. Wilson, II
       Internet Address: clwilson@access.mountain.net
            Carl.wilson@f14.n279.z1.fidonet.org
                          Part TWO
Resort Name: Inn of Last Resort
Location: Roatan, Bay Island of Honduras
Dive Operation: In House
URL---- http://www.dive.com/innlast.html
EMAIL: lastresort@globalnet.hn
                        The Resort
The Inn of Last Resort is a beautiful resort.  Very few
trees were cut during the construction of the buildings,
thus the place looks like it was set in the middle of a
tropical rain forest.  All the buildings are finished on the
outside with wood lap siding that blends into the natural
surroundings.  In a couple of instances the buildings were
built around trees with the trees growing through the
buildings.  Grounds are raked and swept every morning and
the shrubbery was beautifully trimmed.  There are several
hammocks hung from the trees which makes it possible to
always find one in the shade for a nice nap.
The rooms are large, I think perhaps the largest rooms I
have found in a dive resort short of a suite.  The rooms
have two single beds and one double in each room.  Each
room has an individual air conditioning unit, two ceiling
fans, and a phone.  The only TV I found was two in the main
dinning building.
The rooms have several shelves and two hanging areas for
clothes.  The shelves are a nice touch, I had more than
enough room to empty my luggae and spread my dive gear out
before I took it to the dive building.  Each room has a
large bath with a shower, no tub.
The resort consists of four building, three of which are
rooms and the fourth that is the dining room/bar.  The rooms
all face inward enclosing a courtyard full of trees.  The
buildings with the rooms are five rooms wide and two stores
high.
The main building/dining room/bar houses the kitchen,
dinning room, bar, and lounge with TV, card tables, and a
bumper pool table.  On the homepage, the building shown as
the lodge building is this building, it overlooks the sound
and the dive operation.
The FAP meal plan was included in our package.   Coffee and
juice with meals is included, sodas are not.  I will have to
say this was the best food I have had at a dive resort.
The menu for lunch and supper is posted in the dinning
room/bar each day.  No choices.  However, supper was always
soup, salad, bread, a main entre, and a desert. Presentation
of the supper meal made one think they were in a fine
resturant and not a dive resort.
Lunch was usually a lighter meal, but if one wanted, the
staff would bring you second servings.
Breakfast was good. Eggs and pancakes,with bacon and toast.
The one thing I liked was that I could have eggs and
pancakes or some mornings I skipped the pancakes and had 3
or 4 fried eggs.
As I said, this was the best food I have found in a dive
resort.
Staff
The Manager of the resort is Gail ( I am not sure of her
last name).  She formerly managed the CoCo View resort also
on Roatan.  Gail was effecient and her experience was
obvious as the the resort is a very smooth operation.
While I was at the Inn of last Resort, the owner Donna
Arcaya, an American was there.  She had just returned from a
visit to the states.
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