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Roatan - Splash Inn
Review Date Jan 2025
Resort Rating: 7/10Dive Shop Rating: 9/10
Food 9/10
We spent seven nights at Splash Inn, and while it’s not anywhere near a five-star resort, it delivered a solid four-star experience in fun and adventure—especially with the lifestyle couple who joined us. We booked the all-inclusive dive package, which covered everything: dives, gear (if needed), breakfast, lunch, dinner, and even wine or beer with evening meals (as long as you weren’t diving afterward). The package also included up to 17 dives, weather permitting.
Splash Inn is a boutique hotel with an attentive owner/manager who’s hands-on and always available to assist guests and staff alike. When the weather took a turn for the worse, he scrambled to find us dive spots on the island. Unfortunately, one day was a complete washout, so we swapped tanks for sloths and toured an exotic animal rescue farm. For under $20 (again the resort booked this for us), we got to meet sloths, monkeys, parrots, and other exotic birds, plus transfers to and from the resort. Later in the day we did a chocolate factory tour, along with some shopping we thought this was a pretty awesome Plan B.
The rooms were simple but spotless, with comfortable beds and accommodating bathrooms. The cleaning staff was fantastic, delivering extra blankets and towels promptly and keeping everything fresh daily. We left them a small gratuity each day, and they more than earned it.
The food? Delicious, plentiful, and customizable! The wait staff was happy to accommodate requests—most of us traded beans for fruit all week, and the wife turned her Nutella crepes into banana-filled delights. No complaints there, except maybe that our wetsuits felt a bit tighter by the end of the week.
The diving itself was spectacular. Over a third of our dives featured friendly, photogenic turtles who seemed to enjoy the limelight. Add in plenty of parrotfish, spotted drum fish, trunkfish, pufferfish, and even one elusive ray (though murky water kept us from snapping a pic), and we had plenty to keep our underwater cameras busy.
