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Resort Information:
Anthony’s Key Resort, Sandy Bay, Roatan, Bay Islands of Honduras
www.anthonyskey.com
Tel/fax 011- 504-445-3003
US office Bahia Tours, Inc. 699 S Federal Hwy Hollywood, Fl 33020 Tel 954-929-0090 or 1800-227-3483 Fax 954-922-7478
Accommodations: 56 bungalows with and without air conditioning
Packages: Seven-night dive or snorkel packages range from $1160- 1699 per person, based on double occupancy for 2006. Includes: 3 daily single tank boat dives, 2 weekly night dives, tanks, weights, and weightbelts, welcome cocktail, kayaking, canoes, horseback riding, entrance to the Roatan Museum, daily dolphin show presentation, island fiesta night, beach picnic, and airport transfers from Roatan Int’l airport to hotel, and hotel taxes and surcharges.
Young guests can enroll in Discovery SCUBA Summer Dolphin Camp, a weeklong program introducing kids 5-8 and 9-14 to marine biology, snorkeling and diving. Activities include dolphin feeding and training sessions, PADI SASY, Bubblemaker and junior certification courses. Accommodations and meals included. $999/child, Sun.-Fri. during summer months only, based on2006 pricing rates.
Dolphin activities: Dives ($84 guest/$112 non-guest), snorkel/swim ($73/$84), 2-day specialty course ($160/202), Trainer-for-a-Day ($160/202), beach encounter, daily dolphin sessions, demonstrations, Dolphin Trainer 101 during selected dates only; Bookings for all dolphin programs must be made on the island through the Roatan Institute for Marine Sciences. Guests of Anthony's Key Resort are given priority scheduling. Participants must attend a short orientation. Rental equipment is available (rate subject to change).
Transportation: Taca, Continental, Delta Airlines, fly to Roatan International Airport. The flight is 2 ½ hours direct from Houston, 2 hours direct from Miami and 3 hours from New Orleans with a connection via San Pedro Sula. Shuttle transfers to/from airport included in package. Car rentals can be arranged through the Resort to tour the rest of the hilly, 30 mile-long island.
Description: Anthony’s Key Resort is an all-inclusive, diving mecca. Located 35 mi (56km) off the coast of Honduras on Roatan, Bay Islands, it sits next to the second largest barrier reef system in the world, where 96 per cent of all species found anywhere in the Caribbean can be seen.
Divers can choose from 35 dive sites, 5-30 minutes away, all in waters averaging 80 degree or better with 80-100 feet visibility. Eleven custom dive boats are available to leave three times daily for reef, wall, wreck dives and two weekly night dives. Outer island excursion day trips are also available.
Anthony’s Key Resort, a PADI 5-Star Gold Palm Resort, offers the least expensive diver training and PADI certification in the Caribbean and runs a PADI Instructor Development Center. The on-site medical facility, serving residents and visitors, includes a hyperbaric chamber.
Wooden cabanas are tastefully tucked into the lush, forested hillside overlooking a sparkling lagoon and garden view setting. A 60-second boat ride ferries guests to the small private island of Anthony, whose perimeter holds ocean front bungalows, some sitting over crystal blue waters on stilts. Bailey’s Key is a two-minute boat ride west of Anthony’s Key, where inquisitive visitors can wade waist-deep into the lagoon and interact with dolphins from the Roatan Institute of Marine Sciences.
The Resort has been family owned and operated for 30 years by Julio Galindo, Sr., who at one time served as mayor of Roatan. In 1989, he founded the Roatan Institute of Marine Sciences (RIMS), a unique research and educational facility with the only dolphin program on the island. Resident dolphins are integrated inside unique enclosures in the ocean, with natural flow-through seawater. Some dolphins are open-ocean trained and leave the facility to interact with divers and swimmers.
RIMS is also home to the Roatan Museum, displaying artifacts and exhibits of the culture and history of the Bay Islands (free for guests, $4 non guest).
Beyond the world-class dive sites, Roatan has much to offer above the surface of the ocean. Canopy tours rush visitors through the treetops, swaying over the island peaks, and down the steep slopes to Tabyana Beach. If high altitude and high speed are too much of a rush, there are horses to ride on the beaches, kayaks to paddle around its shores, fly fishing on the flats and dolphins to play with in the surf. Visitors can also arrange to visit Maya Ruin sites or hike in a cloud forest in the mainland of Honduras.
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