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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Laura_b
May 15, 2024
Fun with monkeys and sloths - We enjoyed interacting with the monkeys and sloths. The tour guide also graciously pushed my mother-in-law in a wheelchair. We would definitely recommend this tour for families of all ages!
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Kathryn_d
Apr 27, 2024
Sloths , Beach and More…A Perfect Day in Toatan - We met our tour operator and were led to a comfortable air-conditioned minibus. After a scenic ride we arrived at the Mayan Jungle, monkey & sloth sanctuary. Most of the other people in the tour went zip lining but we immediately went to see the animals! That was fantastic! I got to interact with the cute monkeys in their enclosure…what fun! Then we saw different types of monkeys before we got to the Sloth habitat. It was a wonderful experience, being close to 12 rescued sloths including one mom with her 4 month old baby. We had a the whole sloth encounter to ourselves and our guide who told us all about these sweet, gentle animals while I spent a long time holding “Priscilla”! Amazing!!! We saw more animals and beautiful birds, including a Toucan, parrots and Macaws!!! Because our tour people were still on their adventure, our tour guide drove us immediately to the lovely beach club where we were told about the amenities and given shaded lounges close to the beach. There were drinks and snacks available for purchase. There was a large pool available which we enjoyed also. At the designated time we met up with our driver and returned directly to our cruise port! It was a great day!!!
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Dustys830
Apr 26, 2024
West Bay beach one of the most popular beach on Roatan bay island nice relaxing place to enjoy the crestal water - Island tour 4 to 5 hours you get to see the hight is point of the island you get to see the chocolate factory and see hove the take the chocolate and Lorne about the history we're it come from and hove do the make it
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Doreneb840
Apr 22, 2024
Well taken care off and guide was awesome, shared history and culture and we are going to go back and stay for a week - This excursion to see the sloths was the highlight of our trip. We enjoyed connecting with these beautiful animals and tge monkeys and parrots. The West beach was awesome, enjoyed a relaxing massage on the beach and swim with my sisters. Our guide Monty and driver were excellent. We were well taken care of. Wela'lin.Dorene
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Zane_o
Apr 6, 2024
Great experience - Zethro was friendly and knowledgeable about the area. David was our guide at the monkey and sloth experience. He was kind, patient with a large group of people.
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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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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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Nross333
Apr 17, 2024
Don’t waste your money with this “tour” group - If you’re looking for an actual tour with information, this is not the company. We booked a private tour, and our tour guide was a driver with no words. He was polite but shared nothing about the island or our tours. He took us to our first spot which was the sloth and monkey tour, we waited in line to then be pulled out of line to rush to our dolphin tour. Then we get to the dolphin tour and go back to the sloth tour after. It was very disorganized and the guide was not prepared at all. The van we were in was also filthy and falling apart. In addition, once you leave the cruise port you walk on a very busy road for a while until you get to your van. We had two kids and felt this was unsafe. We would not book with this group again. It’s a taxi driver that waits for you, not a tour guide at all. Not worth the price.
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