Scuba diving holiday in Honduras
| country: | Honduras |
| departures: | We offer accommodation & scuba diving courses year round. Standard rates (Jan, Jul, Nov, Dec), low season (Aug-Oct), high season (Feb, May, Jun), peak season (Mar, Apr) |
| price: | From US $850 - US $1595 (8 days) excluding flights, 16% tax & diver tax. From US $750 - US $1495 for non-divers. Price depends on season; group discounts & courses available. Please contact us to discuss transportation |
| vouchers: | Gift vouchers can be used with this holiday |
the amazing things you'll be doing
We offer a 5 Star Gold Palm PADI Resort set in a beautiful beach front location. Surrounded by coconut palms and fruit trees with indigenous wildlife and orchids, our guests have unlimited shore diving night or day on 3 of the best south side dive sites.
Scuba diving on Utila is rich and varied with more than 70 buoyed sites around the island. The North side has the 2nd largest barrier reef in the world with sheer walls dropping to over 1,000m!
The South side of Utila consists mainly of shallow fringing reefs, the top of the reef at around 5m dropping down to between 30 & 40m. And of course during the surface intervals the whale shark search is on!
Our Dive School: Our dive school can be found in the center of Utila town with the best scuba diving prices in the world. However, cheap prices do not mean reduced quality or service, and we pride ourselves on the quality of our equipment, the enthusiasm of our staff and the professionalism of the services we provide.
Prices quoted include: Ocean front accommodation, air conditioning & fans in all rooms, refrigerator in each room, welcome cocktail & resort orientation, breakfast, lunch buffet & full service 3 course dinner, drinking water, iced tea, hot tea/coffee, unlimited snorkelling & internet access.
Divers benefit from unlimited shore diving, 3 boat dives daily inclusive of 2 night dives, tanks, belts & weights and a buoyancy control workshop to help protect our reefs. Diving & snorkelling equipment & wetsuits etc. for rent.
Your hosts, Steve and Jasmine will welcome you to their beautiful get-away-from-it-all-resort which can only be reached by boat through a lagoon (which has great fishing). There are no telephones or TVs, if you need to contact the outside world free Internet access is available.
The resort has 10 spacious, deluxe rooms each with a large private balcony overlooking a white sandy beach and the crystal waters of the Caribbean. With a maximum of only 20 guests at any time it is a place where you can truly relax and make yourself at home.
Your meals are good quality home style cooking, prepared by Jasmine, with plenty of choices to accommodate all tastes and some good wines to accompany it. You will arrive as guests and leave as friends.
The Clubhouse: We have a comfortable social area where guests can chat, play games, watch videos or just relax. We provide full wireless internet access using a high-speed 802.11g (2.4 Gb) wireless router, 2 computers with a CD burner and internet access, and a full service bar.
We arrange three afternoon trips per week into town free of charge for our guests to explore and buy gifts. We can organise an evening trip into town at a small extra cost and with a pre arranged return time.
With unlimited shore diving on three of the best south side sites, three boat dives per day and a full range of PADI Courses and Specialties available, our resort is a scuba diving heaven!!
PADI Speciality Courses: A great way to advance your knowledge & understanding of different aspects of the aquatic world. Our courses include Deep Diver, Search & Recovery, Underwater Naturalist, and Photography.
DSAT Technical Courses: These courses train you in the techniques and procedures required to dive below the recreational limit. Upon certification you will be able to make decompression dives using the Air, Nitrox and Oxygen , plan and conduct staged decompression dives, understand all of the risks involved and be trained to deal with foreseeable problems.
PADI Instructor Development Courses : These courses provide you with the skills, knowledge and marketing background to become a PADI Instructor from IDC right up to MSDT and Specialty Instructor courses.
Fun dives for the Certified Scuba Diver: All fun divers are accompanied by an Instructor or a fully qualified Divemaster, and each dive begins with a dive site briefing. There are two fun dives per boat trip and the boat goes out mornings and afternoon. We have a six divers per group maximum.
Please contact us for the full list of courses that we offer and price details.
By boat: Ferries go from La Ceiba to Utila. We can help you arrange this.
Scuba diving on Utila is rich and varied with more than 70 buoyed sites around the island. The North side has the 2nd largest barrier reef in the world with sheer walls dropping to over 1,000m!
The South side of Utila consists mainly of shallow fringing reefs, the top of the reef at around 5m dropping down to between 30 & 40m. And of course during the surface intervals the whale shark search is on!
Our Dive School: Our dive school can be found in the center of Utila town with the best scuba diving prices in the world. However, cheap prices do not mean reduced quality or service, and we pride ourselves on the quality of our equipment, the enthusiasm of our staff and the professionalism of the services we provide.
Prices quoted include: Ocean front accommodation, air conditioning & fans in all rooms, refrigerator in each room, welcome cocktail & resort orientation, breakfast, lunch buffet & full service 3 course dinner, drinking water, iced tea, hot tea/coffee, unlimited snorkelling & internet access. Divers benefit from unlimited shore diving, 3 boat dives daily inclusive of 2 night dives, tanks, belts & weights and a buoyancy control workshop to help protect our reefs. Diving & snorkelling equipment & wetsuits etc. for rent.
dive accommodation
Your hosts, Steve and Jasmine will welcome you to their beautiful get-away-from-it-all-resort which can only be reached by boat through a lagoon (which has great fishing). There are no telephones or TVs, if you need to contact the outside world free Internet access is available. The resort has 10 spacious, deluxe rooms each with a large private balcony overlooking a white sandy beach and the crystal waters of the Caribbean. With a maximum of only 20 guests at any time it is a place where you can truly relax and make yourself at home.
Your meals are good quality home style cooking, prepared by Jasmine, with plenty of choices to accommodate all tastes and some good wines to accompany it. You will arrive as guests and leave as friends.
The Clubhouse: We have a comfortable social area where guests can chat, play games, watch videos or just relax. We provide full wireless internet access using a high-speed 802.11g (2.4 Gb) wireless router, 2 computers with a CD burner and internet access, and a full service bar. We arrange three afternoon trips per week into town free of charge for our guests to explore and buy gifts. We can organise an evening trip into town at a small extra cost and with a pre arranged return time.
With unlimited shore diving on three of the best south side sites, three boat dives per day and a full range of PADI Courses and Specialties available, our resort is a scuba diving heaven!!
scuba diving courses
PADI Scuba Diving Courses: Our dive school has one of the best reputations on the island for quality with only 4 students per class instead of the allowed 8 or more. Courses cater for the novice & experienced diver alike, ranging from Discover Scuba Diving right up to IDC Staff Instructor.PADI Speciality Courses: A great way to advance your knowledge & understanding of different aspects of the aquatic world. Our courses include Deep Diver, Search & Recovery, Underwater Naturalist, and Photography.
DSAT Technical Courses: These courses train you in the techniques and procedures required to dive below the recreational limit. Upon certification you will be able to make decompression dives using the Air, Nitrox and Oxygen , plan and conduct staged decompression dives, understand all of the risks involved and be trained to deal with foreseeable problems.
PADI Instructor Development Courses : These courses provide you with the skills, knowledge and marketing background to become a PADI Instructor from IDC right up to MSDT and Specialty Instructor courses.Fun dives for the Certified Scuba Diver: All fun divers are accompanied by an Instructor or a fully qualified Divemaster, and each dive begins with a dive site briefing. There are two fun dives per boat trip and the boat goes out mornings and afternoon. We have a six divers per group maximum.
Please contact us for the full list of courses that we offer and price details.
how to find us
By air: The main airlines that fly to Honduras are Continental Airlines, American Airlines, TACA and Delta Airlines. If you are from Europe you will probably have to spend a night in the USA at either Miami or Houston. You need to fly to San Pedro Sula (Honduran mainland) or Roatan (the next island) and we can arrange internal flights at no extra cost by commercial or private plane.By boat: Ferries go from La Ceiba to Utila. We can help you arrange this.
how this holiday makes a difference
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We believe that it is our responsibility to put back into the oceans as much as we can. We run our Whale Shark Research project in conjunction with 23 other countries through a non profit organisation called www.Ecocean.com. We fly in a specialist to conduct the project during one month every year, all profits are put back into Whale Shark research, and evening talks are organised for interested guests.
We are one of the founders of UDSEC (Utila Dive Safety and Environmental Commission) and fund everything from tourist police to reef protection & laying dive buoys. We are also heavily involved with coral regeneration, conch and Long spine Urchin project and protection of Grouper spawning grounds. We also work closely with also work closely with www.reef.org organising for members to come to Utila to conduct fish counts. This is all done in conjunction with a Marine Biologist that we have employed, who has already been rewarded with grants from Project Aware for his work.  We aim to show all divers not only the beauty of the undersea world but also how fragile it is and what everyone can do to help. In the Resort, we only serve sustainable fish in our restaurant and provide guests with one bottle of water for personal use that can be refilled 24 hours a day from a main filling station in an attempt to cut down on plastic used. At all other times we supply water for guests (on the boats, in their rooms, and at meals). For divers, we offer a free buoyancy clinic to help reduce accidental reef damage, and during our Whale Shark season we limit our guests to a maximum of 12 people so we can cut down on any disruption to Whale Shark feeding. We have 'encounter guidelines' on the island that also help with this and plenty of educational resources (books, DVDs etc.) for guests to learn about the species they have seen and any issues affecting their survival. We also encourage the local people to find employment outside of historical (and unsustainable) areas such as fishing, and have seen a move into tourism. |
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