We were just there the March 24th through the 30th with 40 other divers.
The location is very nice but the resort is some what run down. It has the potential to be a 5 star location but in its current state I would give it 2 stars. The rooms are basically hotel rooms, nothing special. Their were a lot of little things wrong with the room, the shower had mold in it, the laminate floors were peelling, the sliding door on the balcony did not close fully and the front door would not lock unless you pushed on it hard.
The house keeping staff would not give my wife a wash cloth or hand towels - this may seem trivial but was just another example of how the resort just does not reach it's potential.
We had several singles in our group and the resort tried to double them up in rooms with a single king bed
The food was not good. We ended up eating allot of salads and fruits and going in to French Harbour for dinner even though we were on an AI package.
Included in our AI package was "domestic" beers, I expected Salva Vida. The only beer they had was Strohs:yuck: as part of our package. They did not even have Salva Vida at the resort. You could buy Corona for $4
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The dive operation was top notch. The only things I would mention as a negative for the dive operation is that only one of the boats had a head and their advertised price for Nitrox is/was $100 for the week, they tried to charge us $120 for the week and our trip leader had to discuss this with the owner to get them to honor the price listed on their web site. In the end they did honor the $100 price.
We have stayed at both Anthony's Key Resort and now Fantasy Island. The diving on both sides of the island are comparable but the Marine Park had more fish life. The next time we go back to Roatan we will be staying at AKR again. With the specials they run the cost difference is minimal.
If you do stay at FI make sure you dive the Coco View house reef - It was one of the coolest walls we dove all week and the Prince Albert is a great wreck to dive.
Overall I will not recomend Fantasy Island but will recomend AKR.