Dive Review of Sun Divers Roatan/Lands End Resort in
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Sun Divers Roatan/Lands End Resort: "Great dives in Roatan", Feb, 2024, by Rick Feinleib , VA, US ( Sr. Contributor 20 reports with 9 Helpful votes). Report 12894.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	Accommodations: Lands End is in a good, quiet part of West End, about a 10-15 minute walk from the dive shops, bars, restaurants, convenience stores, and beachwear shops. There are good places to eat (and drink) in West End, both nice and casual. If you are a non-diver, looking for sand and luxury, West End is not for you. Not much beach. Lands End maybe was luxurious in the '90s, but now ... it is past prime. For divers used to modest dive resorts, it is average. (Note: Lands End does NOT have its own dive operation on site.) Rooms have hard beds (ok, I dived all day, still slept), no chairs, hardly any towels, nowhere to hang wet gear (many rooms have balconies with old wooden furniture, but no hooks/pegs), minimal toiletries. Patio area is good -- right on the seabreak -- and the infinity pool is good, a fine place to relax for a couple afternoon hours, but not really resort-like. Food adequate (cooked breakfast included). There is a bar onsite a few hours a day. Again, this place is fine for divers looking for decent value; they could do more to make it more diver-suited. Oh, sunsets are spectacular! Dive ops: Sun Divers operates in the heart of West End on Half Moon Bay. Staff couldn't be more organized! Excellent DMs (Ali, David, Ricky) and boat captains (Orlean) -- magicians at finding critters and leading divers through swimthroughs, drifts, and night dives. Sun Divers works hard to ensure divers get to see a broad variety of dive sites. Two boats allow them to divide divers by site, and maybe by skill level. The large boat carries about 12-16 divers (plus DMs); the smaller about 8 divers. Some sites are too far for Sun Divers' boats to visit; some far sites are occasionally visited, but require excellent weather and a surcharge. In poor weather (northerly winds), the boats are moved in the evening to a dock on the Southside, and divers are vanned to the dock at departure time -- about a 15 minute drive. No facilities on the Southside dock. Even if diving morning and afternoon, the van returns all divers to the shop midday. Still, most times the boats are sitting a few meters off the beach at the West End dive shop. Boat embarking/debarking in West End is by wading up to waist-deep, then boarding by ladder. No dry areas on the boats; there is a small tub for cameras on the larger boat. Nice touch: fresh fruit during morning surface interval. The operation is mostly valet; they do an excellent job of marking divers' wetsuits and BCs, and rinsing the BCs after the dives. Divers carry their dry bags, fins, masks, and weight pockets on and off the boat. The shop secures gear at night on hangers in locked shed. For nitrox, the op does a very good job of involving the diver in the gas analysis and tank marking. Because they get their nitrox tanks from an outside distributor, it is important to coordinate ahead of your dive day to ensure you have tanks available, lest they forget to order them -- but usually they were right on top of this. Cash payment is preferred and incentivized. The facility is small, has a bathroom and an outdoor shower, and a rack for fins, and can get crowded momentarily with 20 divers and staff moving around. Much credit to Cristina and Natalie for running a well-organized operation! Diving is good on west side and south side. Mostly very good visibility. We saw eel, eagle ray, stingray, grouper, snapper, barracuda, jack, scorpion, indigo hamlet, sergeant major, creole wrasse, parrot, butterfly, durgon, drum, file, turtle, lobster, and squirrel, plus the DMs were great at finding and pointing out seahorse, blenny, jawfish, shrimp, upside-down jelly, and much, much more. The swim-throughs at Mary's Place and Blue Channel are outstanding. Many of the dives are drift, and the captain does a great job of meeting the dive group at the surfacing point (DMs deploy SMBs; good thing for divers to have, too). With dozens of dive boats operating on the reefs, and some zipping from one site to the next, divers should remember to stay close to their marker buoys!
Websites	Sun Divers Roatan Lands End Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Coz, Bahamas, LilCayman, GBR, Galapagos, Okinawa, Culebra, San Andres, Belize, Fla Keys, Croatia, Saba
Closest Airport	RTB	Getting There	Via IAH (United), daily. Immigration is slow; airport is very small. My Tabasco was confiscated as "dangerous", on departure.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy	Seas
Water Temp	76-78°F / 24-26°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	80-100 Ft/ 24-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	All surface when DM says so (about 1 hour)
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	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Not much on boats for big gear. Separate rinse tank ashore.

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Dive Review of Sun Divers Roatan/Lands End Resort in Honduras/Roatan

Sun Divers Roatan/Lands End Resort: "Great dives in Roatan", Feb, 2024,

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Dive Review of Sun Divers Roatan/Lands End Resort in
Honduras/Roatan