Roatan, Honduras 4/26-5/1/2018 Don't go for Fishing or Chicas!
Honduras 4/26- 5/1/2018.
Transportation: United flight was very easy from Houston albeit quite a bit expensive. It was almost $700 for a three hour flight. However, I did not have to deal with La Ceiba and another plane or worse, a boat from La Ceiba to Roatan. That would've added at least two or three hours to my trip each way and cost another $150-$200. Not worth the extra time or the cost to fly cheaper to the mainland and then get a commuter flight or a boat / ferry. Also when I was leaving I was watching the departure board and half of the flights to the mainland were canceled. I am assuming they were canceled because they did not have enough people to justify the flight. So that's another reason not to fool with the commuter flight from the mainland to Roatan and back. If you go, do not take a taxi right outside the airport. Walk 100 yards across the street to the Thrifty Rent-A-Car center. Wait for a cab and get a $5 ride down to West End or West Bay. The cabs at the airport want $25. The cabs on the street want $5 USD. There is no need for a taxi if you're staying in West End or West Bay, everything is within a 5-8 min walk. If you want to go to West Bay from West End or vice versa, they have a water taxi for $3 USD or 69 Lemps. They will wait until you there are at least three people on the boat to make the trip. If you have to, you can just pay them $9 and they will take you by yourself. It is about an 8 to 10 minute boat ride.
Lodging: I booked a room through [URL]booking.com[/URL] at the Sea Breeze Inn which is right in the heart of West End. Kevin and Sandra are awesome, very nice people, maid service was excellent, air-conditioner was perfect, room is safe and secure however no in-room safe was furnished. My room came with a microwave, coffee pot, toaster and a hot plate which I did not use, and a mini fridge, which I did use. Wi-fi available but a bit sketchy & slow most of the time.
Fishing: If you want to come here for fishing you will be disappointed. Friday we landed six blackfin tuna and pulled up 2 yellow eye snapper, on Saturday we only managed to land one snapper and one barracuda. That's about as good as it got from what I heard from anybody else that went fishing. All of the tuna and the yellow eye snapper would have been illegal here in the states, because they were too small. I had the restaurant, the Cannibal Café, which is in front of the Sea Breeze, deep fry the two yellow eye snapper on Friday for lunch. OMG, some of the best fish I've ever eaten in my life probably because it was swimming 4 hrs earlier. Basically all we did was drag baits up and down the reef for four hours. Extremely overpriced and not productive.
FOOD: I mostly ate a local food called Balleados, which is basically a big tortilla shell with a base of beans and then chicken, avocado whatever else you wanted on it. Very very good, made fresh everywhere I ate them. Also had the fried yellow eyed snaper three days in a row for lunch. Had the chicken wings at the Booty Bar which were pretty good. One local dish I saw in Punta Gorda on my day trip Sunday, was called Machuca. It is a coconut-based broth with seafood, 1/2 crab and vegetables in it. It looked very good however I did not sample it but wish I would have. From the looks of it and the description one of the owners of the restaurant was telling me, it reminded me of a dish in Brazil call Muceca, which had the same coconut-based broth and lots of seafood and vegetables in it. Oh well put that on the list for next time, if there ever is a next time.
Chicas: sitting at the restaurant in front of the hotel Thursday night pretty tanked up due to travel lag and several drinks and several shots of Kahlúa, a Fat girl walks by starts talking to me offering a massage, BJ, total sex etc. Etc. So I take her up on it for $80 US, go back to my room I was so tanked up I couldn't perform. Later that night when I was walking back to the hotel on the main street "the boulevard", I see this skinny little creole looking girl and start talking to her and she tells me to come by the store that she works at the next day. So I go by the next day after fishing and she wasn't there but other girl told me that she would be there at 2 PM. I went to the hotel shower and had a nap then had the two snapper deep fried by the restaurant and brought them down to the little tourist store where the skinny creole girl was working and had lunch with her and one of her coworkers at a bench outside the store. She offered her number and told me to give her a call for later on. I did and we hooked up and it was on! Nice tight little body, awesome shower, massage and total sex. She didn't even ask for money, she did ask for a little help with the taxi so I gave her about $42 USD (L500). We hooked up again the next night and it was just as awesome. Gave her about $80 USD that night even though she didn't ask for it. The place to be at Sunset is at a bar called the Booty Bar, they have a main bar with a dance floor and across the street on the beach side of the Boulevard they have a little coconut hut looking place where you can sit and have drinks. The girls walk up and down the the street and you can talk to them offer them a drink or just go talk to them and bring them home and negotiate whatever. 90% of these girls weigh more than you and I put together. However Sunday afternoon I saw a little skinny thing that weighed about 90 pounds, very good looking so I negotiated a $50 shower, massage and sex session with her. It was freaking awesome. Great attitude, very good looking no boobs whatsoever but a beautiful ass. That was a $50 session, hooked up with her again on Monday afternoon for another awesome session. I think I gave her about $60 US this time. She came back over Tuesday morning early like 6:30 AM for another great session before my flight out. Her birthday was two days later so I gave her I think $100. I know, I know, I overpaid!. But she did show up at 6:30 AM the session was great and it was her birthday coming up on 5/3.
Money exchange: I used US dollars to pay for the fishing charters and everything else was paid for in Lempiras which I got 23 Honduran Lempiras to $1 USD at the ATMs.
Take home message for you guys is, if you go there for snorkeling and scuba diving you will have an awesome time. Don't waste your time to go there for fishing or mongering! It is just not worth it. I don't scuba dive or snorkel but there are a gazillion dive shops that have daily tours, some of them two or three trips a day. Almost everybody else was over there to go diving or snorkeling.
El Mechanico.
