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Key Info for Visitors
- Currency: HNL
- Languages: Spanish, English
- Climate: Tropical
- Timezone: America/Tegucigalpa
- Population: Approximately 100,000 residents
- Best Time to Visit: best time to visit is during the dry season from March to August.
- Visa Requirements Visitors from the United States, European Union, and United Kingdom do not require a visa for stays up to 90 days. Many other countries enjoy visa-free access or visa on arrival. Travelers should have a valid passport, proof of onward travel, and may need to show proof of sufficient funds. It is advisable to check specific requirements before travel.
About Roatan
Roatan is a stunning Caribbean island off the coast of Honduras, renowned for its vibrant coral reefs, crystal-clear waters, and laid-back island atmosphere. It is part of the Bay Islands and offers a unique blend of natural beauty and cultural diversity. The island is a top destination for scuba diving and snorkeling enthusiasts due to its location along the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, the second-largest barrier reef in the world. Visitors are drawn to Roatan for its pristine beaches, lush tropical forests, and friendly local communities. The island’s charm lies in its mix of adventure and relaxation, with opportunities to explore underwater ecosystems, enjoy water sports, or simply unwind in a hammock by the sea. Roatan also offers a variety of dining options featuring fresh seafood and local flavors. Its accessibility from mainland Honduras and international airports makes it an attractive getaway for travelers seeking an authentic Caribbean experience with a touch of Honduran culture.
Top Attractions
1. West Bay Beach – Famous for its white sand and turquoise waters, perfect for swimming and snorkeling. 2. Gumbalimba Park – A nature park featuring tropical gardens, wildlife encounters, and zip-lining adventures. 3. Roatan Marine Park – A protected area dedicated to preserving the coral reefs and marine life, offering guided snorkeling tours. 4. Carambola Botanical Gardens – Showcases native plants and offers hiking trails with scenic views. 5. Punta Gorda Village – A cultural hotspot where visitors can experience Garifuna music, dance, and cuisine.
Popular Activities
Roatan offers world-class scuba diving and snorkeling, with vibrant reefs teeming with marine life. Visitors can enjoy zip-lining through the jungle canopy, deep-sea fishing, kayaking, and paddleboarding. Cultural experiences include visiting Garifuna communities to learn about their traditions and music. Hiking and wildlife watching are popular inland activities. Relaxation options include beach lounging, spa treatments, and boat tours around the island.
Roatan Tours & Experiences
- Top Attractions: Highlights of Honduras
- Duration Range: Roatan offers world-class scuba diving and snorkeling, with vibrant reefs teeming with marine life. Visitors can enjoy zip-lining through the jungle canopy, deep-sea fishing, kayaking, and paddleboarding. Cultural experiences include visiting Garifuna communities to learn about their traditions and music. Hiking and wildlife watching are popular inland activities. Relaxation options include beach lounging, spa treatments, and boat tours around the island.
- Group Size: Intimate Groups
- Difficulty Level: All Comfort Levels
- Recommended For: The best time to visit is during the dry season from March to August. Pack lightweight, breathable clothing, swimwear, sun protection, insect repellent, and comfortable shoes for outdoor activities. Respect local customs and dress modestly when visiting villages. Stay hydrated and use bottled water. Keep valuables secure and avoid isolated areas at night. US dollars are widely accepted, but having some local currency is useful. Credit cards are accepted in many places but not everywhere.
Average Tour Price: $75
Lowest Price Tour: $50
Highest Price Tour: $180
547 Available Tour Excursions in Roatan
Visit the highlight points of Roatan, taking in its spectacular scenery and discover the interesting culture of our island during your cruise stop. You'll travel aboard a private air conditioned unit, accompanied by a friendly bilingual driver and tour guide, that will leisurely tour around Roatan. You will visit small towns, fishing villages, pass by the shipwreck, local schools, hospitals, churches, and other local points of interest, like activity centers, groceries and souvenir shops. During the ride and the stos, the guide will share juicy details of our history spanning from pirate's tales to today's gossip The tour ends with a timely return to your cruiseship. This excursion can be customized and enhanced with entrance tickets to the monkeys, sloths or iguanas, a zipline ride, a snorkeling dip or maybe a beach break. Just let your driver know and he'll make the reservations for you!
Price: $50.00
Duration: 5 hours
PADI Advanced Open Water certification is for anyone already certified with any dive organization with a certification comparable to PADI Open Water. Get your advanced with the largest dive organization. West Bay Divers has been awarded the Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence for 5 years and is the number one dive shop on West Bay Beach, Roatan's number one location for fun and diving! Roatan is rated number one for Dive training due to its calm and warm waters and low currents.
Price: $475.00
Duration: 48 hours
Visit the famous Roatan Chocolate Factory and learn to make chocolate from scratch! This is a unique tour in the island! You will learn about the process of chocolate making and will create your own chocolate bar that you will take home! This activity is an authentic Honduran experience, it’s family friendly and perfect for couples, solo travelers and anyone who loves chocolate. Note: Classes are scheduled based on availability and your needs, usually starting at 2:00pm. We do the classes based on reservations. If you're visiting Roatan on a cruise, we have to make sure that we can schedule the class and bring you back to the ship on time. For cruisers, we’ll try to arrive at the factory as early as possible. Therefore, we ask for you to disembark as soon as your ship arrives. If we can’t host it in the am, we can also pick you up before class start time and go sightseeing and/or do another activity or tour! Just let us know if you’re interested in doing this and we can set it up.
Price: $105.00
Duration: 2-3 hours
This is one of the highlights places, and you get to visit so many places, that you would love, and you would get culture and history explain on the way.
Price: $95.00
Duration: 4 hours
Explore the best of Roatan with our fully customizable city tour! Start your journey at a scenic panoramic viewpoint, where you’ll have the perfect opportunity to capture breathtaking photos of the island. Next, we’ll visit a local souvenir shopping center, where you can browse and buy unique, handcrafted items that reflect the culture of Roatan. Afterward, indulge in a sweet stop at the Mayak Chocolate Factory, followed by a visit to the Roatan Rum Cake Factory, where you’ll sample the island’s famous rum cake. Relax and unwind at West Bay Beach, renowned as the most beautiful beach on the island, where you’ll have free time to swim, sunbathe, or simply enjoy the views. Lastly, we’ll stop at the iconic ROATAN sign, a must-see photo spot for any visitor. What makes this tour unique? It’s fully customizable! Whether you’d like to add or change activities, we’re happy to tailor the experience to your preferences. Create your perfect day in Roatan with us!
Price: $55.00
Duration: 3 hours
The Roatan Canopy Zipline Tour is a thrilling adventure tour that takes you up and away to a steep mountainside location, with lush tropical jungle at the West of the Island, offering dizzying Jungle view and truly awesome scenery, This exciting excursion is great for virtually all ages and fitness levels. The first priority of our professional guides is your safety and security while you enjoy this fun-filled day of gliding through the jungle canopy.
Price: $90.00
Duration: 3 hours
This tour is a unique tour that gives you the option to customize your own tour providing your options, we include a local driver and tour guide that will be taking you to discover the real culture of our little paradise island, named as Roatan. Some of the activities and attractions below, also feel free to suggest more, we will take you there. Optional Stops: Monkeys & Sloths Beach Local Food Mangrove Tunnel Snorkeling Zipline Botanical Gardens Gumbalimba Park Chocolate Factory Rum Factory Roatan Color Sign Note: Activities will represent an extra fee, you will pay at the attraction.
Price: $65.00
Duration: 3-6 hours
We are a young married couple and former employees of Celebrity Cruises, passionate about continuing to deliver exceptional service—this time on the beautiful island of Roatan. Together with our dedicated team of locals, we are committed to ensuring you remember this vacation forever. Give us the opportunity to show you our little slice of paradise. We want to show you all the interesting things in Roatan so when you leave you gonna feel like you want to come back as soon as possible. Our tour offers so many stops in different areas on the island so in one day you gonna learn a lot about the culture, food, people and life in Roatan. Give us a chance to show you all this in one day! Welcome to Roatan!
Price: $55.00
Duration: 3 hours
sometimes you don’t know what to do? that’s why we are here this tour is to show you how beautiful our island is with a experienced tour guide Giving all the information of what’s there to do while you decide .
Price: $65.00
Duration: 3-5 hours
Experience the best of Roatan with this all-in-one shore excursion! Enjoy crystal-clear waters for an unforgettable snorkeling adventure, visit a fascinating sanctuary park, and relax on a pristine beach with white sands and turquoise waters. Perfect for nature lovers and those seeking both adventure and tranquility in a tropical paradise!
Price: $100.00
Duration: 4 hours
transportation service, tours, totally reliable and safe land and water activities, safe reservations. to make your stay on the beautiful island of Roatan more pleasant. For more detailed information you can write to our different social networks as roatandriver.
Price: $100.00
Duration: 1-5 hours
This is definitely one of Roatan's most popular shore excursions. You will have the chance to visit one of the best animal sanctuaries on the island and hang out with precious animals likes sloths, monkeys, birds and more. And if that's not enough, you can also choose to do a canopy tour/zip-line adventure at Mayan Eden. You will also have the option to add-on a beach pass at Paradise Beach Resort, located right on the best beach in all of Central America, West Bay Beach (Voted before into the top 20 beach destinations in the world on Travelers Choice Awards). And if you don't want to do the beach or want to add something tasty, you can add-on a visit/stop at The Roatan Chocolate Factory in West End. At the chocolate factory you will receive a factory tour to see how its made, learn a lot about chocolate and Honduras and of course try 12 different kinds of jaguar friendly and internationally renowned chocolate. Get ready for a wholesome experience on our beautiful island.
Price: $70.00
Duration: 3-5 hours
You live the beautiful experience of visiting the second largest coral reef in the world and having an encounter with all its wonders that live there, in addition to tasting various types of chocolate in the chocolate factory and you will taste all the flavors and types of rum that they have . and you will also taste and enjoy the rum tart at the rum factory.
Price: $75.00
Duration: 3-4 hours
The Roatan City Tour Experience with Three Boys Tours takes you through the urban and commercial area of Coxen Hole with a road side view of our International Airport. Other remarks included in this excursion: Macaw Container Market, Spanish Town, Mayan Eden Eco Park as well as optional souvenir stops and/or lunch in any of the restaurants within the circuit. This tour has been designed for those visitors that look for a brief introduction to Roatan Island with pintoresque landmarks, local history, connection with nature and a few picture perfect stops. We top the experience with knowledgeable, charismatic and fun drivers that have been in the Transportation & Tourism Industry for over 15 years while exchanging and mixing general Honduran & Island Culture.
Price: $49.99
Duration: 2 hours
Dry Brush exfoliation, inhouse grown Avocado Body Masque, 60 min Bamboo Fusion Massage & Avocado Facial will give your skin the perfect touch to end or to start your Caribbean vacation.
Price: $139.99
Duration: 1 hours
Discover and enjoy West Bay Beach one of the best natural white sand beaches and crystal clear water in the Caribbean and Central America. This adventure starts with a visit to awesome places for photos and local craft, after we will take you to the Chocolate factory to learn about the benefits, the white and black chocolate process and much more at West End village, also a nice place for sightseeing, after this delicious adventure, our local friendly guide will escort you all the way to the Rum & Cake factory for another delicious adventure, there you will taste multiple types of rum and enjoy an amazing view of West End villages from the top, our last stop will be at one of the best beaches worldwide, yes is West Bay, you will enjoy the Caribbean atmosphere like never before, this includes beach facilities and free WIFI.
Price: $66.67
Duration: 3-5 hours
Our warmth and dedication set us apart. From the moment we meet, you'll be greeted with a genuine smile, reflecting our joy in welcoming you. We strive to make you feel not just like a guest, but like a friend by the end of the day. Your comfort and safety are our top priorities, and we ensure a personalized experience for you and your family. Along with our extensive knowledge of the island, you'll also gain a deeper understanding of Roatan's rich culture and history.
Price: $64.99
Duration: 5 hours
We have over 20 years of experience offering tours of our beautiful island. What sets apart is the attention to our guests' needs, knowledge of the island and professionalism. We want everyone to depart wanting to return as soon as possible.
Price: $65.00
Duration: 6 hours
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Important Tour Information
- Bring comfortable walking shoes and appropriate clothing
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Frequently Asked Questions
Local Food & Cuisine
The local cuisine in Roatan features fresh seafood such as lobster, conch, and fish prepared in traditional Honduran and Caribbean styles. Signature dishes include fried fish with coconut rice and beans, baleadas (flour tortillas filled with beans and cheese), and tapado (seafood stew). Dining customs are casual and friendly, often enjoyed outdoors. Noteworthy restaurants include The Beach House and Cal’s Cantina, known for their fresh ingredients and island ambiance.
Getting Around
Roatan is accessible by air via Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport, with flights from Honduras and international connections. Ferries connect Roatan to the mainland. Local transportation includes taxis, buses, and rental scooters. Roads are generally in good condition but can be narrow and winding. Taxis are affordable and convenient for short trips. Renting a vehicle is an option for greater flexibility.
Travel Tips
The best time to visit is during the dry season from March to August. Pack lightweight, breathable clothing, swimwear, sun protection, insect repellent, and comfortable shoes for outdoor activities. Respect local customs and dress modestly when visiting villages. Stay hydrated and use bottled water. Keep valuables secure and avoid isolated areas at night. US dollars are widely accepted, but having some local currency is useful. Credit cards are accepted in many places but not everywhere.
Culture & Customs
Roatan’s culture is a blend of indigenous Garifuna, Spanish, and English influences. The Garifuna community is known for its music, dance, and festivals such as the Garifuna Settlement Day celebrated in November. Social customs emphasize friendliness and hospitality. It is polite to greet people with a smile and a handshake. Visitors should respect local traditions and avoid loud behavior. Bargaining is common in markets but should be done respectfully.
