My wife and I spent 2 weeks at Guanaja and 2 weeks at Roatan.
Guanaja we stayed at Hotel Guanaja South side of Island toward E end, nice big rooms with a bar, beach, and a dive shop, I only did 2 tanks with the dive shop George the Dive Master had medical issues, so I ended up Diving with Peter Watersports, Peter was great guy to dive with, the reef terrain or topography whatever you'd like to call it, was stunning, seen several Morey Eels some Sting Rays, seen a lot of different fish, shot some Lion Fish, the cook fixed them for dinner and breakfast. Seen 2 other dive boats at a distance 1 was Dunbar Rock the other may have been Clark's Caye. Ate some good food at the Manatee Bar with the local expats and went to Mimi's for Dirty Chicken one eve, both places very good. A very slow paced kick back and enjoy island time place.
Roatan was a shock after Guanaja, we stayed at brisas deal mar, for my taste it was just the right sized resort good pool, bar, beach and Island Diving Center was 6 steps from my front door and 15 steps from the back door of our room. Excellent Boat, good Dive Masters or Instructors. I seen more tourist under water on first 2 dives than I did for 2 weeks at Guanaja. Reef again terrain was stunning fish were plentiful very enjoyable. We went fishing with Ruthless Roatan Jerom and Ed were our deckhands we caught 3 nice Wahoo and 3 Tuna. We took enough fish back to brisas del mar, the chefs cooked the Wahoo and made sashimi with the tuna & we fed 24 Canadian and Missourian friends that we had met on the dive boat and the bar, a great night. It was my wife's world for once I warned her about the biting bugs, but they barely bothered her and tried to eat me alive. Also from personal experience it's no fun to be stung by Lion Fish, similar feeling to smashing your thumb with ball peen hammer, OUCH!!!
Guanaja we stayed at Hotel Guanaja South side of Island toward E end, nice big rooms with a bar, beach, and a dive shop, I only did 2 tanks with the dive shop George the Dive Master had medical issues, so I ended up Diving with Peter Watersports, Peter was great guy to dive with, the reef terrain or topography whatever you'd like to call it, was stunning, seen several Morey Eels some Sting Rays, seen a lot of different fish, shot some Lion Fish, the cook fixed them for dinner and breakfast. Seen 2 other dive boats at a distance 1 was Dunbar Rock the other may have been Clark's Caye. Ate some good food at the Manatee Bar with the local expats and went to Mimi's for Dirty Chicken one eve, both places very good. A very slow paced kick back and enjoy island time place.
Roatan was a shock after Guanaja, we stayed at brisas deal mar, for my taste it was just the right sized resort good pool, bar, beach and Island Diving Center was 6 steps from my front door and 15 steps from the back door of our room. Excellent Boat, good Dive Masters or Instructors. I seen more tourist under water on first 2 dives than I did for 2 weeks at Guanaja. Reef again terrain was stunning fish were plentiful very enjoyable. We went fishing with Ruthless Roatan Jerom and Ed were our deckhands we caught 3 nice Wahoo and 3 Tuna. We took enough fish back to brisas del mar, the chefs cooked the Wahoo and made sashimi with the tuna & we fed 24 Canadian and Missourian friends that we had met on the dive boat and the bar, a great night. It was my wife's world for once I warned her about the biting bugs, but they barely bothered her and tried to eat me alive. Also from personal experience it's no fun to be stung by Lion Fish, similar feeling to smashing your thumb with ball peen hammer, OUCH!!!
