Question on Luna Beach Resort

[laurendell]

We are planning on our first trip to Roatan in July and are pretty much set with going with Luna Beach Resort. (I want to be able to eat dinner at different places and see more of the island than just the inside of a resort)

For the 1 bedroom beach suites, it seems like you can either book a "Beach View from Deck, door to side" or a regular "Beach View" room (more $). Has anyone stayed here before and can tell me the difference? I cant imagine it's 70% more expensive just to not have the door be on the side of the room -- are the rooms with the "Beach View" signifiantly nicer than the "Beach View from Deck" rooms? (i.e. are the cheaper ones back in the jungle that if you looked really hard from the deck you could maybe see the beach or something?)

(Also any advice on how to not get eaten alive besides the obvious wearing tons of bug spray anytime above water would be a welcome tip as well!!)

 

[diversteve]

Never been there but we considered it for this May. My guess is that the $72 rooms are the three behind the others. (D, F & H) Click on each letter to see a floorplan for the room. Luna Beach Resort - Facility Map

 

[laurendell]

Yeah, that's what I figured too.... Well, turns out the diving package comes with the Beach Front rooms anyway so it turns out to be a moot point. How come you didn't end up going with the resort if you don't mind me asking?

 

[diversteve]

We're a large group (needed 9 separate BR's) and couldn't make the accommodations work for us without getting into the higher priced rooms/houses. Also it seemed a little too far away from the majority of places in the West End - we're doing this trip without cars.

 

[laurendell]

Oh, okay. So where did you end up booking instead?

 

[Hagan34]

I have stayed at Luna Beach (dec 07), the walk up the beach to west end is ~5 mins and to the far side of west end (coconut Tree) is about 12. I went back to Roatan after this Business trip for my own enjoyment. Luna was booked fulled at that time so i had to stay some place else, but ended up at the bar there almost nightly as i became close freinds to a few of the emploies and made some new friends that were staying there. all the staff remembered me and welcomed me back there as if i was a still a guest at the resort. very Friendly staff, the owner is almost always around and makes sure that all the guest enjoy their stay.

As far as the rooms we split a house 4 ways and one guy got "stuck" in the beach rooms (room H actually). he had a side facing room and was still very close to the water. as far as i could tell they all had hammicks on a porch that you could sese the water from. the houses are very nice but we didnt spend much time in them anyway.

the only TV is in the bar, they have wireless Internet at the bar also. but not in the rooms/houses from what i could tell.

Luna is close enough to West End that you can easily walk to it enjoy the night life, have dinner, and then when you want to go to bed its far enough away that the music from Fosters and Twisted Tucan that you can sleep like a baby. Its also close enough to West Bay (20-30 mins, 10 mins by water taxi) and about 10-15 to The Gumbalimba Park

Hope this may have help some

 

[sbaggs]

I thought the best thing about Luna Beach was the location. You could easily walk to the West End, which we usually did for dinner. It's also possible to walk to West Bay Beach, although that takes at least 20 minutes...usually longer for us as we stopped for beverages along the way. As far as bugs, I used Off with Deet before I went out day or night. I had no bites whatsoever. Many people, however, had bites all over. It only took me seeing a couple of those people to become an avid user of the spray. I have to say that after a week in Utila and then another week in Roatan, I was ready not to have to spray myself with bug spray anymore, but it was clearly worth the annoyance.