What is the Ironshore of Roatan?

Roatan is an island of many natural wonders. The world’s second largest barrier reef system extends just off the edges of the island’s beautiful white sand beaches while lush jungle forests and spectacular waterfalls act as a home to a number of native plant and animal species. One truly unique feature of this tropical wonderland …

How to Actually Relax on Vacation

Most people take a vacation to relax, get away from it all and recharge their batteries.  However, after planning the trip, spending your hard earned money and navigating your way through airport security and a country you may have never visited before, unwinding isn’t as easy as simply showing up.  Read this article to get …

Tips for Splitting Your Roatan Family Vacation Cost

So, you’re going to Roatan on an extended family trip!  Congratulations!  Everybody’s booked their flights, the vacation rental has been paid for and you’ve figured out how to get there from Juan Manuel Gálvez International airport.  Now you just have to figure out who owes what.  If everyone in your family is laid back about …

Roatan Shopping and Unique Souvenir Ideas

It’s obvious that tourist and travelers love souvenirs. If they didn’t there wouldn’t be such a huge proliferation of souvenir shops everywhere that groups of tourists congregate. From airports, to tourist attractions, to shopping streets in every major city you’ll find racks and racks of merchandise, quite often made in China, emblazoned with the local …

4 Ways to Make Your Travel Memories Last Forever

Social media apps have gone a long way in helping people share their travel memories.  Whether you’ve posted photos of your Roatan rentals oceanfront property on Instagram, added the view from the top of Kotor’s Castle of Giovanni to Facebook or tweeted a shot of Long Beach on the west coast of Vancouver Island, the …

Can You Be Too Old to Scuba Dive in Roatan?

According to the Divers Alert Network (DAN), the group of not-for-profit societies formed to create a worldwide network of 24-hour diving hotlines to improve safety in diving, a diver is considered older if they are above 50 years of age. Obviously, DAN may have a different definition of “older” than most people, but for the …

Roatan Vacation Tips: Visiting the Roatan Iguana Sanctuary

Arch’s Iguana and Marine Park is a unique tourist attraction on the Honduran island of Roatan with its main attraction being the Roatan iguana.  But it’s not just one iguana, it’s literally thousands of them!  On an area of over 12 acres, up to 4000 iguanas are left to run wild and live as they …

Roatan’s Famous Gumbo-Limbo Tree | West Bay, Roatan

If you have been planning on visiting West Bay Beach and you have been searching for Roatan vacation rentals by owner in that area, it is quite likely you have heard mention of the tourist attraction, Gumbalimba Park, which features botanical gardens and an animal preserve. If you have wondered where on earth that name …

Roatan Vacation Rentals | The Benefits of Taking a Caribbean Holiday

Taking a vacation gets you out of your daily routine, away from your workplace tasks and ideally allows you to relax while doing something different.  It’s been found that vacations are good for your mental well being, as well as both your family and work lives.  However, it’s also been found that most North Americans …

Why Learn How to Scuba Dive in Roatan?

When searching through Roatan’s West Bay vacation rentals, you may learn something that you didn’t realize beforehand.  Roatan offers not only some of the best scuba diving territory in the world, it also has some of the cheapest diving prices in the world.  For both these reasons, many people come to Roatan and will take …