Dive Review of Anthony’s Key Resort in
Honduras/Roatan

Other dive reports on Anthony’s Key Resort

Other Honduras reports
Subscriber Content Preview
Active subscribers go here

Anthony’s Key Resort: "Rough Times at Roatan", Nov, 2024, by John Crossley, FL, US ( Top Contributor 31 reports with 14 Helpful votes). Report 13218 has 2 Helpful votes.
No photos available at this time
Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Rough Times at Roatan My mid-November dive trip to Roatan (Anthony’s Key Resort) was diminished by bad weather. First, my Saturday flight was cancelled by Delta due to a bad storm in the Roatan area. Delta automatically rebooked the flight to the next day, but I lost one day of my seven night package. Surprisingly, the resort would not refund my lost day or give a future credit. They said to contact the major tour company that booked my trip for me. Weather continued to plague the diving. Seas were ok early on my first dive day (Monday), but got rougher in the afternoon. Tuesday was pretty rough all day. Wednesday, we started off on the resort dive boats, but rough seas caused us to come back to the resort on a resort bus. The next two days, we went to the south side of the island on the bus, and boarded the re-located boats for two dives. Then we returned to the resort via the bus. This extra transit time cut our dives to just two a day. One of those days we were pelted with a hard rain and were miserably cold in the boat speeding to the dives sites. One of the dives on the south side, “Mary’s Place” was spectacular. It had two long and fairly tight tunnel swim throughs that were in fairly good condition. The 10 divers plus a guide did a great job not kicking up sand or crashing into the nearby tunnel walls. After the swim throughs, there were numerous different schools of fish to greet us. We also had two wreck dives in very good visibility. One was as deep as 111 feet, and had some amount of penetration available. A highlight of two dives was the rare “Toadfish” found in crevices. Another highlight was not seeing any lionfish! The dive guide also found a couple of seahorses, arrow crabs, and other macro critters. However overall, I don’t think the diving was as good as most sites in Indonesia, Micronesia, or the Philippines. Anthony’s Key Resort is a really nice resort, with great food, nice rooms, attractive grounds, a great gift shop, good rental equipment and uniformly great customer service by all staff. Although the rooms are clean with good furnishings and plenty of hot water, the one ceiling light was very dim, and electric outlets were obstructed by beds and a refrigerator. Their bar includes a huge game room and entertainment most every night. The resort has many attractions in addition to diving, including a dolphin encounter, snorkeling, fishing, kayaks, and a trip to Maya Key with a barbeque, island history museum, and a native animals zoo. Surprisingly, I had no encounters with the feared “no-seeum” sand fleas!
Websites	Anthony’s Key Resort [same]
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Australia, Fiji, Truck, Yap, Palau, Bali, Lembeh, Hawaii, Florida, Red Sea, Soloman Islands, PNG, Caymans, Bonaire, BVI, Philippines and others
Closest Airport	Roatan	Getting There	Direct flights from Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Houston and others
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy, cloudy	Seas	choppy, surge
Water Temp	84-85°F / 29-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	60-90 Ft/ 18-27 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Dive guide set max depth and time
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Small 2-level table on boat with large rinse tank. No camera room on land, just one table and rinse bucket.

Report currently has 2 Helpful votes

Leave a comment (Subscribers only -- 200 words max)
Subscribers can comment here

Subscribers can post comments, ask the reviewer questions, as well as getting immediate and complete access to ALL 604 dive reviews of Honduras and all other dive destinations. Complete access to all issues and Chapbooks is also included.

Other dive reports on Anthony’s Key Resort

All Honduras Dive Reviews and Reports
Diving Guide to Honduras
Diving Reviews for All Dive Destinations

Want to assemble your own collection of Honduras reports in one place?
Use the Mini Chapbook Facility to create your personalized collection.

Note: The information here was reported by the author above, but has NOT been reviewed nor edited by Undercurrent prior to posting on our website. Please report any major problems by writing to us and referencing the report number above.

Undercurrent Home

Page computed and displayed in 0.16 seconds

Get more dive info like these and other important scuba updates sent monthly to your email. And a FREE Recent Issue of Undercurrent
Get a free monthly email and a sample issue!

Dive Review of Anthony’s Key Resort in Honduras/Roatan

Anthony’s Key Resort: "Rough Times at Roatan", Nov, 2024,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

Overall Rating

Reporter and Travel

Dive Conditions

Dive Policy

What I Saw

Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):

Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

Dive Review of Anthony’s Key Resort in
Honduras/Roatan