January 1999

Vol. 14, No. 1     What's this?

Hurricane Resort Report

from the January, 1999 issue of Undercurrent  

• Guanaja, Honduras
  Bayman Bay Club — closed; scheduled to reopen around Christmas; lost five of the cottages and the dock
  Posada del Sol — closed; will reopen in February. The main building is okay with no rooms lost, although the dive shop and dock suffered extensive damage. However, they’re currently housing the families of staff, few of whom have other housing
• Roatán, Honduras
  Anthony’s Key — closed; lost 15 cabins; scheduled to reopen 2/1/ 98, when repairs will be complete Bay Island Beach Resort — open for business; repairs are complete; had only minor damage to the dock and a window blown out, no flooding CoCo View — open (since 11/7/98); some damage to the overwater walkways and gazebo; reefs undamaged
  Fantasy Island — open; virtually no damage
  Inn of Last Resort — now open; lost its dock but no buildings
  Reef House — little damage; open for business
• Cayos Cochinos, Honduras
  Plantation Beach Resort — open; virtually no damage
• Utila, Honduras
  Laguna Beach — will reopen 12/19/98; no major damage
  Utila Lodge — open; lost docks and sundeck, water damage to rooms and clubhouse; repairs should be complete by Christmas
• Ambergris, Belize
  Albert Bradley — open; only minor damage on beach and docks
  Amigos del Mar — open since the week after the storm; lost docks and the buildings on the docks; new docks are up and they’re in the process of reconstructing the buildings on them; repairs should be complete before Christmas; had no high winds but there was tidal surge; some minor damage to reefs
  Ramon’s — open; lost the dive shop on their dock
• Glover’s Reef, Belize
  Manta Resort — closed; scheduled to reopen at the end of January
• St. George’s Caye, Belize
  St. George’s Caye Lodge — open; only damage was to front dock, which was destroyed but has already been rebuilt
• Turneffe Atoll, Belize
  Turneffe Flats—open; beach sustained erosion and they lost their dock; dock has already been rebuilt
• Mainland, Belize
  Rum Point — open; no damage except some debris