Roatan Island Cultural Tour: Experience Local Culture, Sightseeing, and West Bay Beach Resort
4.4
222 Ratings
Sandy Bay
Immerse yourself in the local culture of Roatan Island on this 4 to 5-hour sightseeing tour. Experience the island's highlights, visit Victor's Monkey Business, and relax at West Bay Beach Resort.
Duration: 5 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Victor Bodden Tours - Monkeys, Sloths, Macaws and other Animal Interactions available (Optional) Free On-Site Wi-Fi and souvenir store with local goods, arts and crafts, and snacks, food & beverages.

  • Bodden Tours: Mayan Jungle Canopy Zipline | Victor’s Monkey & Sloth Sanctuary - Visit Victor’s Monkey & Sloth Sanctuary

  • West Bay Beach - West Bay Beach Resort Day-Pass access (Foster’s, Henry Morgan’s Reosrt, Bananarama, etc): beach loungers (shaded/unshaded), onsite restaurants/bars, restrooms, fresh water showers, changing rooms, etc.

What's Included
  • All taxes, fees and handling charges included
  • Travel in comfort with air-conditioned vehicles
  • Expert tour escort/host provided
  • Convenient port pickup and drop-off
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
  • Gratuities
  • Snorkel Gear, Kayaks, Canoes, Jet-Skis, Water-based activities, etc. (available on-site for additional fees)
  • This Air-Conditioned Bus-based Transportation has NO Sightseeing or Cultural Component.
Additional Information

Join fellow cruise ship passengers for an enjoyable 4 to 5-hour journey exploring local culture and sights, followed by a leisurely afternoon of enjoyment at West Bay Beach. This tour offers a variety of experiences from sightseeing and cultural immersion on Roatan Island to beach relaxation and an optional visit to Victor’s Monkey Business — a unique opportunity to see monkeys, sloths & macaws — or choose to take it easy and either shop or unwind! This Roatan Island Highlights tour offers a unique Roatan experience, run by island locals, not cruise ship staff or hired personnel! They are intensely familiar with their island, its customs, and its residents, and are eager to introduce you to their home island.

Our 4 to 5-Hour Cultural Sightseeing Tour of Roatan Island, including a visit to the West Bay Beach Resort, sets off from our meeting point at your port one hour after your ship’s docking. Please ensure to arrive 10 minutes before the tour begins for check-in. Guests who don’t arrive on time, unfortunately, won’t be able to join the tour and the tour costs will not be refunded.

  • This tour available for CRUISE SHIP PASSENGERS, only! For Cruise Guests: Check-in EARLY and you won’t be LATE!
  • NO Sightseeing/Cultural Component - 5.5 Hours, includes 1.5 Hours at Beach. Our 4 to 5-Hour Transportation including West Bay Beach Resort departs our assembly area at your port one hour after your ship’s arrival at the dock. Please arrive 15 minutes prior to departure to check-in. Guests not arriving in-time will not be able to tour and tour fees will not be refunded.
  • At time of booking, Cruise ship passengers must provide the following information at time of booking: ship name, docking time, disembarkation time and re-boarding time. Regardless of times entered, our 4 to 5-Hour Roatan Island Transportation including West Bay Beach Resort departs our assembly area at your port one hour after your ship’s arrival at the dock.
  • Please arrive 15 minutes prior to departure to check-in. Guests not arriving in-time will not be able to tour and tour fees will not be refunded.
  • Visiting Victor’s Monkey Business and entering the animal habitats is optional. Visiting the animal habitats and touching/holding the animals is not in any way encouraged or required to participate in this tour. While others in your tour group are visiting Victor’s Monkey Business, alternative activities are available.
  • Minimum numbers apply. There is a possibility of cancellation after confirmation if there are not enough passengers to meet requirements. In the event of this occurring, you will be offered an alternative or full refund
  • Our average Fun-n-Sun tour length is 4 to 5 hours. If your ship’s itinerary is unusually short (or long), the timing and number of our stops may be shortened or extended. NO Sightseeing/Cultural Component - 5.5 Hours, includes 1.5 Hours at Beach
  • For our Optional Animal Interactions: any feeding or touching of the animals is conducted under the supervision of trained officials, any physical contact between the animals and the guests is initiated by the animals themselves and the animals have the freedom to disengage from that contact at their own will.
  • Our Sanctuary Animals DO NOT perform demeaning tricks or other unnatural behaviours in front of the general public, and are NOT featured as part of a live circus or stage entertainment act in a demeaning manner
  • Victor’s Monkey Business is a licensed zoological park by Honduran Government, dedicated to the preservation of endangered species native to the mainland of Honduras.
Location
Victor Bodden Tours
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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(222 Ratings)
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Gregg_s
Mar 8, 2024
Excellent visit - The animals were a great experience. Monkeys parrots and sloth hands on. The beach for 2 hours was relaxing. A stop for fotos at the letters and then back to the dock for some shopping. Guides were excellent. Highly recommend.
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Odyssey32509440077
Mar 8, 2024
Guides were very knowledgeable, had a great experience! Would definitely do again. - Guides were very knowledgeable and available to answer any questions. Was definitely a great experience and would do again!!
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Paradise62298194258
Mar 25, 2024
I would recommend this tour. - This tour was really great. We loved the monkeys and the sloths. We also loved our tour guide giving us information on the island itself. However, what we didn't like was the stop at a local shopping tourist trap. It was obviously overpriced but I understand friends helping friends. But this shop was ridiculously overpriced. None of our party bought anything and we sat on the bus for about 15 minutes waiting to leave. This little stop decreased our beach time which we really wanted to enjoy. At the beach we felt rushed. I recommend this tour, however, ask them NOT to stop for any shopping!
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Snoopycr
Mar 19, 2024
Great sloth, monkey zoo and 3 hr beach time! - Nice cheap tour to sloth/moneky/bird zoo and 3 hour beach time! Good: Small group 3 hour beach time! Photo with sloths and monkeys Beach resort had plenty of free beach chairs. Bring your own beach towels No fake rum or chocolate factory tour where they try to make you buy things Bad: We had an old small van, ac was not very good. They have newer vans. Our group was unlucky No tour or country info provide by driver. Just drop and pick up, but he was very nice
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M5033gljenniferm
Feb 25, 2024
Good day in Roatan - We had a really nice tour and learned lots about Roatan. We saw the sights, stopped at the chocolate and rum factories, shopped and snorkeled. Our guide took us to Bananarama for lunch but it really wasn't that good. We were hoping for some good local food but I would definitely not recommend that place. Unfortunately I have no idea what our guide's name was because he never told us after some initial confusion about who was taking us on our tour.
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Andrea
Mar 31, 2024
Choose another company - This tour was fun for my teens, but it was super chaotic and not organized well at all. We did the zip and dip which included sloths, zip line, and beach. The organization at the port was lacking and we had to walk a long way thru town to get to this bus that was too small for our group. People were sitting on each other’s laps. The group was a mix of all the different tours and if we didn’t continue to ask questions, we would have missed portions of the trip or even possibly could have been left behind. No indication of what to do or when to do it. And no way of being identified as a tour group. The beach resort was not nice or relaxing and the water was too rough to wade or swim. The positive was my kids loved the sloths and the zip line. I will not choose this tour again. There are plenty of other operators that offer the same thing, same price, but better experience.
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Jbu5474tk
Mar 25, 2024
Victor B - The itinerary was excellent for the price. The van was packed and uncomfortable. The guide offered nothing to the experience except for just being on time which they did a great job of. Was worth the value, but nothing other than what you normally get with the ship or other tours.
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Mary_k
Mar 29, 2024
Disappointing - Snorkeling the reef was nice had to wait an hour to get in bus. Online included snorkeling but we had to pay to snorkel because we had no cell service to pull up ticket to prove it. Will not book again through viatar
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Larry_m
Mar 8, 2024
Poor coordination - We had to walk down the side of a very busy street to get in the van. Was very dangerous! Driver told us we could leave our belongings in the van. Then he picked up other people that stole belongings from the van. Driver had to pay to replace items.
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Fearless46062517565
Feb 23, 2024
Would not recommend - Very disorganized and disorienting from the start. We arrived on time but did not actually get on a bus until 2 hrs past the scheduled departure. Organizer was calling out names from a list but impossible to hear with the crowds and other noises at the port. When I approached to find out if they called us was told my name wasn’t on the list even though I was looking at it. Eventually got on a bus to the first location but was left behind there and had to get squeezed onto another group’s bus. Only got 30 minutes at the beach instead of the 90 mins described in the listing. At least we made it back to our ship in time. Overall a stressful experience, the opposite of what I’m looking for on vacation.
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