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With Dieter. He didn’t own the land the bar was on. The guy who did owned it was the guy who owns the hotel. Supposedly he was a drug lord. Now years ago Dieter lend him 20K to let him use the back as a bar. Dieter had sold the bar to someone else. They said he got into a fight over with the guy over the money he owed. He did eventually pay him. The day after he was paid is when he was killed. Now one morning Dieter went to take a shower. Someone snuck into his house and came up behind him and shot him in the head. His girl friend was drugged out and didn’t know what happened. All the making of a inside job. She was back out on the street hooking. She had left all her clothing in a bar for safe keeping. But then she eventually disappeared and did not take her stuff. A lot of people thought that was odd. There was very little in the paper and someone had ransacked his house. I mean tore it a part. His wife and son are now living in Australia.

Now the drug lord. What a story on that one. He was a major player in bringing cocaine through Honduras. Those DEA agents they found killed in the Mexican desert. Supposedly he had something to do with it. I guess he was kidnapped and held in a USA jail but was later released. I met him, he seems like a nice guy. Now these are some of the tamer stories I heard. All of them seem to revolve around the guy who owns the hotel in the front. Doesn’t matter, Dieter is dead. I lift my drink in a toast and light a smoke for him.

The French Canadian bar…woo hoo. If there was a scummy bar it was that. I saw things in there that people can not believe when I tell them. OK one partner sold his share in the bar to the other partner. Now the new owner tried to smuggle a kilo of cocaine in to Holland and was caught. The bar sat idle and no one was there to renew the license on it. La Ceiba had passed a law that there can not be a new bar with in so many feet of a church. That was the end of the French Canadian bar. Yep it was the woman who owns the Gran Hotel Ceiba who pushed that law. I met her once. What a sour puss. The guy who got caught with the drugs, he is out of prison now and living in Brussels (?).

Parthenon hotel urgh. One guy told me that he put a couple of hundred in hotel safe and it disappeared. Everyone there is trying to run a scam on you. One night I brought back 2 hookers and they would only allow just one into my room. They kind of hinted for a bribe to let two in. a buddy of mine was in his room and heard some jiggling at the door. He went to open it and there was a guy trying to pick the lock. There are bars around there but never hit them. Now I know of this one woman who works around there, in a bar and hooking. Her name is Olga. Not the brightest bulb on the tree but man she has it going on. She is married and her husband knows what she is doing.

Tell me more about the La Quinta. Is it near the park? Now I remember the park USED to be a great place to pick up chicks. Usually I hang out at around Gordos near the bridge. From what I heard that is where the gringos hang out now.

I was in La Ceiba in 1994. I wonder what happened to the guys who were there then. I didn't know Dieter, although while I was there, there was a guy who was killed or either killed himself. As I recall, he lived in a hotel just up from cafe verde, on the other side of the street. But there were a couple of other guys I wanted to ask about. One is Jim, who was in his early 60s at that time. He had an apartment with furniture, and he spend one month in La Ceiba and the next month in Fort Myers, Fla. He was a nice guy. Also, there was a lawyer from California, maybe San Diego, who spend a fair amount of time at the Hotel Paris, I think it was, with a slimy green swimming pool but a nice little cabana bar. He did real estate deals on Roatan. He had a friend, a guy in his mid-fifties, who was married to a Honduran woman, he was based on New Orleans, but he was getting tired of Honduras. He used to spend time at the Hotel Paris too. Finally, there was a younger guy, in his mid-forties, who operated a restaurant-bar near the stadium, I believed he moved his operation to one of the islands. And there was a fairly nice restaurant sort of like a fancy tree house, with hamburgers and a TV, operated by some Canadians, I think.
I never found La Ceiba to be a great place for picking up ladies, but they could be found. But it was not super for that. But it was fun. Like the others on this site, I preferred San Pedro Sula. I've got some other stories for another time.

I'm thinking about going to Honduras. Has anyone any experience with towns on the pacific coast, Golfo Fonseco, Choluteca or Nacaome.

Bukek -
I stayed briefly in Choluteca, and some of the other dives a little further inland, all the way to Juticalpa (2002). It was very disappointing, regarding women and environment. It is very dry and dusty, kind of reminded me of the shitty parts of Arizona and West Texas. The gulf is dirty, the towns are dirty, and the quality and quantity of women was pitiful. I was told that anything above a 2, on a scale of 1 to 10, moves to Tegucigalpa. I hit a few bars and didn’t see any prospects. In retrospect, I probably should have taken a taxi around town and quizzed him on the local entertainment, which I’m sure has to exist on some level. I had my own car and tried to find women on my own. However, the drive from the north coast was interesting to say the least.

Maltrufio,

Thanks, sounds like I would be better off going to La Ceiba.

Anybody have experiences in the Bay Islands, especially Roatan?

Mahku,

RE: Roatan/Bay Islands. Guanaja and Utila are definitely not mongering destinations so you should stick with Roatan. Access is easy either by small prop plane from San Pedro Sula or La Ceiba or boat from La Ceiba.

The boat is actually kind of nice and is relatively cheap. Head east out of town, like you’re driving to Trujillo, then hang a left at the first gas station after you cross the Rio Cangrejal Bridge (there is no sign). Follow that road to the end to find the ferry terminal. Advanced reservations not required and it’s a couple hundred lemps for a round trip ticket. In Roatan, tons of taxis will be waiting at the ferry terminal. If you want to rent a car, you have to take a taxi to the airport to find one.

Roatan has very nice beaches, especially compared to the rest of the shitty beaches on mainland Honduras. The island is still part of a third world country and lacks the infrastructure you typically find in other resort destinations (ie: Cabo, Cancun, etc). There is one road that runs most of the length of the Island and that’s pretty much it. There are some nice resorts and beach condos that can be rented. The main attraction is scuba and sport fishing and most of the tourists are engaged in those two activities. For the best bargain, if you’re a scuba diver, get a resort package, which includes, hotel and a set number of day and night dives. If you didn’t know, Roatan has the largest coral reef in the northern hemisphere (second only to the Great Barrier Reef in Aus).

If you’re not a diver, there are several small dive hotels along the beach at West End Village and some at Sandy Bay. There are also lots of bars and shops at this end of the island. Pretty much just stay around the west end of the island on the north side. The road doesn’t even go all the way to the east end, its pretty desolate and the south side is full of little shanty towns like Flowers Bay. There are some resorts on the central portion/south side of the island, but their good days are long past or they are for the geriatric crowd.

Now regarding the women – The Bay Island women are fucking hot and nasty. If you like black women, you’re in for a treat. I do and have had a few memorable experiences with a beautiful, young, sales clerk at one the trinket shops. Just go to any bar and there will be women and almost any of them will fuck you for very cheap or a very reasonable price. Reasonable on Roatan is 200 lemps. The girls that grew up in the Bay Islands will speak passable English. There aren’t really any massage parlors or brothels, but there doesn’t need to be.

Good luck and be sure to write up your adventures.

Maltrufio,

Thanks for all the details! I am thinking specifically about Roatan so I'm glad to hear it's the place to go.

Scuba diving's my hobby so I'm always on the lookout for places to combine that with other kinds of diving so it looks like this might be the place.

Since you didn't mention it I'll assume there aren't any problems with guest-friendliness in the hotels or resorts.

Black women? Yes! I've made a couple of trips to Ethiopia recently, as well as snagging the occasional African beauty in Dubai so I'm all ready for this place.

I'll be there late January/early February so I'll write up after that. Thanks a lot!

Come on guys......

Wazzz up on the Roatan Islands???????????

anybody???

Johan

As chance would have it I am flying down to Roatan in two days for a week and a half. Staying at an all-inclusive dive resort called Antony's Key. I don't know if it's girl-friendly but I would doubt it.

If it's not girl-friendly, is there someplace clean and safe you could suggest for taking my dates?

Any other vacation tips about Roatan?

Roatan is different than the rest of Honduras. It is a big tourist destination and many english speakers.

The all inclusive resorts will charge you for a guest if they eat, from my stays (not at anthony's) security isn't tight and people can walk in and out. I was in Roatan a few times and non during a real busy time though.

Roatan is party central and the discos are going until the last person leaves, I am not sure about working girls (I always brought one) but with the partying going on, and Honduras's economy I'm sure one can hook up without much problem.

Great diving!

migrant

I heard of a couple of SW in La Ceiba that used to go over to Roatan to work the bars over there.

I dont know their rates over there but I bets its higher. Supply and demand type of thing.

Hey Guys,

Maltrufio's information below is pretty thorough.

I'll post the following on the Colombia and Curacao boards also.

I'm now comparison shopping for Caribbean destinations that combine good scuba diving and womanizing.

So far I'm looking at Roatan, Curacao and Cartagena in Colombia. I guess Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic are also possibilities. I've only been to Grenada and I can say it's definitely not a good mongering destination.

So I'd like to know about places where I can find the best of the following:

Diving Scene:

Accessible diving (as in can go out, dive twice, and be back before 4 pm or so)

Affordable (no more than about $75 for 2 dives with my own gear)

Good, meaning not Palau or Maldives good. But not a total waste of time looking at nothing. An occasional quality sighting, like a sea turtle or colorful nudibranch, will do.

The mongering scene is mostly covered already on the respective boards so I won't ask for much detail about that. Just want to hear about the best places to combine watery diving with dry land diving.

Just got back from a day trip to Roatan from a cruise ship. While the gf was shopping, I went shopping for a little local service. I stopped in a little shop that I saw a good looking black girl in thought I'd see if the locals could be had and in less than 10 minutes was in the back room getting a BBBJTC for $30US. After leaving her, I was wondering around the street just down from the pier and made eye contact with a gorgeous younger black beauty and after we passed by each other I turned to glance at her ass and she turned to look at me. Next thing I knew we were standing there talking and she invited me to some dump near by where she said her friend lived, and for $40 , had her clothes off and admiring her nice but stretched marked body. Got another nice BBBJTC and she kept sucking me until hard again then bent her over and took her doggy with cover of course. Nice and tight. I could have almost taken her home with me. Thank god for the blue pill. The only problem was was explaining the mosquito bites on my ass to the gf that night.

I'm going back in a few weeks for a little diving this time, and will remember my camera next time.

I'm thinking about going to Copan Ruinas, Honduras for 3 weeks around the New Year to study Spanish. Is there any action available here or nearby? I think the population is less than 10k so there can't be that much. Any chance I can get it from a locals? My spanish is very basic so this option does not seem too promising either. Most likely I'll just take a little side trip to SPS.