CoCo View Resort

This is the best dive operation I have ever used. They are organized, professional, and make diving as easy as possible. Before you get back from your boat dives, they've got full tanks waiting for you at your dive locker. Unlimited shore and night diving. Not a lot of big animals, but lots of macro life and sponges/corals. Saw my first seahorses, mantis shrimp, a toadfish, and several octopus out and about. Shore diving is the easiest I've done—walk in and walk out. The path out to the house reef and the wreck is well-marked and easy to find. The rooms are not fancy but very comfortable. Air conditioning, hot showers, and comfy beds. Each room also has a coffee maker and a small refrigerator. They have over-the-water bungalows available, but we stayed in a waterfront room. All rooms have a beautiful ocean view. The food is good and plentiful and served buffet style. During breakfast, you can get a made-to-order omelet. I would've liked to have had local Honduran dishes, but I guess since they cater to Americans, they serve American food. This was our first, but certainly not our last, trip here.

We have now been to Cocoview three times. For us, like many others it seems, it's an easy place to meet up with old diving friends and get masses of underwater time in the most relaxing way possible. We love to be left to our own devices in the water so that we can spend as much or as little time on a photo subject as we wish. Cocoview is the perfect place for this. The second boat dives, both morning and afternoon, are 'drop off' dives, where the boat drops you at your chosen spot and you make your own way underwater, back to the resort in your own time. But for me, the best feature of all is that at any time of day or night, you can grab a tank and make your own way out to the house reef (or the interesting wreck right in front of the resort) even if you have no dive buddy. There is masses to see in the shallows, and I have been known to spend two and a half hours underwater (thank goodness for Nitrox) not far from the resort playing around with different settings on the huge variety of macro subjects.We have only good things to say about the resort itself - the rooms are great, the food is very good, the bar is fun and the staff are helpful and friendly. The same can be said about the diving facilities - there is even a new camera room now for the serious photographers and the dive crews are wonderful. But for me, the real reason to go is for the never ending supply of new photo subjects.You can spend hours watching the numerous jawfish, waiting for the perfect shot of them aerating their (mouth incubated) eggs or with the sergeant majors as they tend their patches of purple eggs on the remains of the plane wreck nearby. There are always many different juveniles, from drumfish, to filefish and angelfish. The rocks are full of blennies and you can find pikeblennies and sailfin blennies in the sand. In a week of diving, you'd be sure to see turtles, morays, octopus and reef squid and the hard and soft corals are beautiful in the sunlit shallows. It's a great place for watching out for interesting behavior too, as you can take the time to look, especially around the reef at night. It could well be the best biodiversity in the Caribbean from our experiences, so I'm sure we'll head back there again soon.

Roatan, Honduras has CoCo View Dive Resort. I've been there 3 times and my husband twice. CoCo View is the most frequently returned-to resort in the world. Once you've been there, you fall in love withj it. Your 10th visit is free.Each couple stays in a cabana which is over the actual Caribbean water. The room is simple, but very clean and well kept. There is unlimited shore diving all day and night. Each diver gets a morning boat ride to 2 destinations and an afternoon boat ride with 2 destinations. The dive masters are awesome. They take you to the animals' homes. Wreck dives are there, as well as reef and wall dives are awesome. It is a good place to get certified on anything and everything you would like.Diving is so very convenient. Yourr dive locker is just feet away from the dive boats. They fill up water tanks for you. Dive Master and boat captain hook and lift up the tanks.The photo, equipment repair, gift shops, restaurant, and bar is always open. pool and ping pong at night. 3 meals included with price. I could go on forever.Sea turtles, goliath grouper, octopus, tarpon, sharks, rays, toad fish, eels and anything else you want to see is there.I hope some day , if you haven't been, you consider CoCo View as your dive choice.

I loved my week at CoCo View and understand why they have so many return customers. The rates for all-inclusive are fantastic. You can spend more time underwater than you can from most liveaboard operations. They have a great house reef that consists of two walls, a ship wreck, and an airplane wreck. A typical day consists of Boat dive, boat drops you off on house reef dive and you take your time heading back to resort, boat dive, boat drops you off on house reef dive, and a night dive if you have the energy. The fish life is pretty healthy since this is in a marine preserve, but suited more for macro photographers than wide-angle, although some of the growth on the walls would make for nice W/A. My favorite subjects were a seahorse, some arrow blennies, and hamlets that did their mating rituals at the top of the house reefs in the afternoon.

CoCo View Resort is great! It's not the cheapest location on the island but it's worth the cost. The resort is on a section of island that is only accessible by boat. The resort is small with a very warm feel to it. There are over-water rooms, a building of rooms with balconies, and private beach houses.A few weeks before we were to arrive, CoCo View contacted me to let me know they were full and would be moving me to a private beach house. These were a few minutes away via bicycle and offered their own stretch of beach, in addition to having all the amenities of a house (kitchen , living room, sun deck, etc). I loved staying at the private beach house.All meals were provided and made by the friendliest women. I have a few dietary restrictions and they were more than happy to help create meals for me or pull some of the main dish aside before adding the other ingredients I couldn't eat. Local alcohol and beer were included as was most sodas, tea, etc. Once a week there is a BBQ on their private quay with a local dance group coming to give entertainment. The resort also offers a game room that people use for reading, lounging, and catching up with others.The diving was great! The wreck Prince Albert is right in their "backyard" and is a beautiful dive. You can dive their shoreline anytime, any day. The lockers, dive tanks and cleaning stations are open 24-hours a day. There are morning and afternoon boat dives. The boats are large and comfortable, including a midboat entry so if the swell is bad you can enter from under the boat without risking a swinging ladder accident. The second dive of any boat trip is along the wall heading back to the resort. The longer dive you want, the further they drop you off. While this might seem like a boring repeat, vary your depth by 5' and you'll see things you didn't see before. Or locate something you really like and enjoy multiple opportunities to photograph it.I would recommend this resort to people who are looking to get in a lot of dives, who enjoy wreck dives, and people who want an all-inclusive resort.

Accommodations I would have been fine with a room, but the beach house was lovely. It was a full-size house - definitely felt like too much for one person! The house was an easy 5 minute walk (or 2 minute bike ride, and there were free bikes to use) from the dive boats, restaurant, etc. It was so nice and quiet at night. Food Food was plentiful and decent. it is definitely a bit on the plain side; the habanero hot sauce helped with the more bland items. I think the menu could be a little more diverse, but it is satisfying overall. Diving I loved having my own cubby to set up my gear and leave it for a week. With nitrox, the staff leaves tanks there for you to analyze and log yourself (there is an analyzer and binder). There are multiple boats going out every morning and afternoon, though you are usually assigned to the same boat for the week. Otherwise, you can grab tanks 24/7 to go diving in the "front yard." It takes roughly five minutes from the shore to reach the wreck of the Prince Albert, as well as a plane wreck. I loved having that available all the time; I know it could seem repetitious to some, but there was so much to explore that I never felt bored! Since I arrived on a Friday, I had an unorthodox schedule. I did my orientation dive that afternoon and then went for a solo night dive. On Saturday morning, I went out on a boat and did the typical CCV schedule of a boat dive with the divemaster, followed by a drop-off dive on one of the walls on the way back. Same schedule for the afternoon. I was switched to the Coco I on Sunday, where I stayed for the rest of my trip. I ended up doing 26 dives total. 10 dives on the two drop-off wall sites, 5 shore dives in the front yard/Prince Albert, and 11 dives on the various sites reached by boat. The divemaster on the Coco I, Gringo, was amazing. I was mainly shooting macro photography, and he had a real knack for finding the tiniest creatures for me - skeletal shrimp, bullet worms, nudibranchs, etc. If I returned to CCV, I would definitely request him! Otherwise, I saw sea turtles, squid, large groupers, crabs, lobsters, shrimp, a nurse shark and an octopus. The Prince Albert and plane wrecks were fun to explore, as was another wreck we visited on a boat dive (the Bud). Bottom Line CCV held up to its positive reputation! I had a wonderful time. I understand now why people return again and again, and I could easily see myself coming back in a few years.

I have visited Coco View 4 times in the last 8 years. This year (2014) I will return for my 5th and become a true Coco Nut.the accommodations are a bit rustic but more than adequate. The food is hearty and plentiful and that's a good thing considering all the diving you can get in. An orientation dive is required more for navigation around the front yard walls and wreck than to check out your skill. All drop off dives are with out a DM so you are on your own and better know how to navigate and be self sufficient. As Coco View gets more and more well known its getting harder to get into. One of the best places is the turtle grass on the way back to Coco View from the walls. Never know what you will see there from rays to octopus to juveniles.