CoCo View Resort, ROATáN

Great diving, If you want to dive thats the place. Great led boat dives, equipment handled with respect, very caring staff, the cook made me special food due to being a vegie. I didnt have much trouble with the bugs but some did, eating at your feet. If you wash the salt off after diving they weren't a problem. Shore dives were just the most awesum, with the Prince Albert in the wash out and Coco View wall to the left or the Newman Wall to the right there was tons to see. The walls were full of life, from 40 ft you could spend an hour on an 80cu.ft bottle relaxing and just checking things out with no current to fight. We did have to evacuate the Island and go to the main land due to a Hurricane ( Felix ) but all was taken care of and were offered compensation too. No problems...Im going back in Sept. With my 11 year old son because of the ease of the diving. If you like to party they have a super cool bar to hang out at. The rooms are over the water so there will be some dampness to deal with but this aint the Hilton, its for diving.

We spent a week at Coco view and will return many times in the furture. They make diving so easy and fun. They have a bueatiful facility and diving is made very easy. The night dives, boat dives and shore diving is wonderful. You will love it! We saw all types of creatures, fish, ***IT WAS WONDERFUL*** It is great for diving, relaxing, and romance. They have internet so you can keep in touch.

My girlfriend and I just returned from a Roatan diving vacation where we spent 7 days at CoCo View Resort doing 30 dives and 5 days at Anthony's Key Resort where we did an additional 9 dives. I've been diving for 20 years and I've been to most of the popular dive spots in the Caribbean (Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, Cozumel, Belize, Bonaire) and a handful of spots in the Pacific (Oahu, Mauai, Australia, and New Guinea). Thus, the review and comparison I've written below is aimed primarily at the diving community. In summary, CoCo View has the better diving and communal areas while Anthony's Key has the better rooms and food. If I were headed back next week, since our goal is to dive, our preference would be CoCo View. Rooms (AKR+) CCV - Ocean Front room, dead ants, condensation, mildew AKR - Key Supperior room, recommend staying on Anthony's Key, great rooms Food (AKR+) CCV - buffet style, average food, CCV - provide iced tea, lemonade, and water all day AKR - sit down style, absolutely incredible food Surface Intervals and the Resort (CCV+) CCV - more convenient, pool table, one shared television, ping pong table, dart board, board games, lots of hammocks, deck space, free wireless AKR - not nearly as convenient, paid wireless, horseback riding, dolphin show daily Storage Lockers (CCV+) CCV - far better lockers AKR - hangers only Diving Routine (CCV+) CCV - 4/5 dives daily, not time constrained AKR - 3 (sometimes 4) dives daily, time constrained Boats (CCV+) Slight edge to CCV, AKR boats have no dry areas Dive Masters / Captains (CCV+) Our primary DM/Captain at CCV (Mark and Osman) were sensational. CCV grabs your BC/Reg each morning and afternoon and takes it to the boat and sets it up for you. They switch the gear between dives. I don't think Osman missed checking someone's air before they got in all week. When you were coming out of the water, one was on one ladder, one on the other, always there to help. Mark was always aware of where his divers were in the water and did a smashing job of finding fish life and making sure everyone saw it (lots of sea horses, etc). We did several drift dives and Osman did a great job picking us up in rough water, etc. Nitrox CCV - percentage target was 32%, varied from 29-37%, too much variance Diving (CCV+) CCV/South - healthier reef, far better shore diving, great for night dives, lots of sea horse AKR/North - more swim throughs, smaller fish in general, turtles

What an amazing trip. Great service, great food, great diving. WOuld not have changed a thing. We stayed in the playa migel beach houses adjoining coco view resort. We have already booked a return trip for June.

This resort is nestled on a pennisula and is accesible by boat. The staff were wonderful and so friendly, just like a big happy family. The diving was great you can do shore dives 24hrs a day and boat dives twice a day. They will try to meet all your needs whenever possible. The accomodations were very comfortable. You can either stay at the resort or an adjoining beach house. We stayed in a beach house and the well water is clean and even safe to drink but they also supply 5gal jugs of bottled water. I can't wait to go back this July. It was the best most relaxing yet fun filled vacation I've been on.