Catamaran Cruise, Open Bar, Food and Snorkeling
Description
Explore the crystal clear water of Roatan onboard a Catamaran. You will have the chance to explore Roatan's Coral Reef using one of the snorkeling kits on board and enjoy alcoholic drinks and food snacks. There is no better way to relax in Roatan than cruising, snorkeling and sunbathing on an amazing Catamaran. Contact us for private CATS. Note: At times, even if it's raining, the ocean is calm for the Catamaran to go out. This is common and it's due to the fact that we're protected by the reef. On these days, you might get a little wet and the visibility might not be the best. (Most of the time visibility is great, regardless). If you don't want to accept these sail conditions, please cancel the cruise at least 24 hours in advance in order to get all of your money back. If you cancel last minute, we will have to charge you a fee to be able to pay for our drivers time and gasoline to pick you up.
Tour Options
Itinerary
This is where we most Catamarans depart from. The catamaran will be waiting for you at Infinity Bay Resort's dock in West Bay Beach. West Bay Beach is the best beach in all of Roatan and amongst the TOP 25 beaches in the world according to Traveler's Choice Awards. Once you get there, you will have entered paradise. Guaranteed! Alternatively, we will depart from West End, a true local's hangout.
We will cruise around West Bay, from West End Wall to West End Village. You will be able to explore the turquoise crystal clear waters of Roatan.
From a distance, we will appreciate the eclectic and lively village of West End. A place where the locals hang, full of dive shops, restaurants, bars and all kinds of local shops! Here, we will jump out of the boat and into the reef for a 30min-1 hour snorkeling tour to experience the magic of Roatan's reefs. Snorkeling is optional and you can stay in the boat or simply take a quick swim! We will choose the best snorkeling site for the day depending on the weather on that specific day! We will choose between: -Spooky Channel -Blue Channel -West End Wall -Turtle Crossing -Etc. * You will snorkel 1 spot on this Cat cruise
In case of bad weather on the north shore of the island, we might be able to move the Catamaran tour to the south shore. In this case, you will see a different side of Roatan, yet a beautiful one as well! If we take you on the south shore, you will cruise alongside Brick Bay, French Harbor and Parrot Tree. Get ready for some amazing views and awesome spots!
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
We can pick you up right in front of the cruise port! We'll have a sign that says "Roatan Tour Guide Association" and has our logo on it! Pick-up/Drop-off are included in all of our tours. We will contact you very soon to send you more information! After booking, please check your inbox! Also, please note that the time for this tour can change at any moment, therefore, we ask for you to please check your messages on Viator and email up to the tour date (Specially the night before and morning of the tour) in case there are any updates. Also, please respond to all of the messages we send you, as we need to confirm that you received them and are aware of any updates we provide you. Note: In case we have to cancel the tour, you will receive a proper notification. If you don't receive a notification from Viator or us, it means that the tour will run as scheduled. Please check your messages for any updates. Remember, that this is not a private sail and it will be shared with other people. Also, we work with different sized Catamarans that fit 40-70 guests and the one you will sail on depends on the cruise ship traffic that day and whether its a day cruise or sunset cruise. Day cruises (cruise shippers) will usually go on the bigger CATS. Moreover, sometimes we go out in the morning and sometimes for sunset. This depends on availability and if its a cruise day or not. If only day cruises are available that day, usually when cruise ships are on the island, you will share it with cruise ship guests. If it's not a cruise day, it will most likely be a sunset sail. Also keep in mind that since the catamaran is shared, the sail times are not always exact. You might have to wait a little bit more time (at the marina or in the catamaran) to sail if the Catamaran is delayed for pickup (this rarely happens) or if other people who have paid to be in the same Catamaran are a little delayed and not past the cutoff limit. Therefore, we ask for your patience and understanding! Additionally, please keep in mind we only set sail when possible. This is not possible on crazy wind days or bad weather days. On such days our focus is safety and we don’t set sails. Finally, if you require pickup past Dixon Cove, we will have to charge extra for pickup (payable in person).. Therefore, you can choose the option "I will select my pickup location later" and we will message you to discuss your pickup. Keep in mind there's an extra fee for pickup past Dixon Cove, depending on where you need pickup from. Finally, sometimes Catamaran tours are not available on certain days when the weather doesn't permit or the minimum number of participants is not met. Please bear with us while we confirm if the Cat cruise is available for your selected tour date. However, the cat cruise is available almost always! In case its not available, we will ask you to either, offer a different date for it or cancel the tour and we will process a 100% refund. Please note that shared CAT might get cancelled last minute if the weather is bad or if the number of participants on the list suddenly falls below the minimum number of participants required to sail. This is more common in rainy season when the conditions are not perfect and a big group of guests cancels at once, leaving the CAT sail list with less than the minimum. Please understand that this is beyond our control and that we will refund you 100% if it happens.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Minimum of 18 years old for Alcoholic Beverages
- On Day Cruises (for your safety), alcoholic beverages are served after the snorkeling, and not before.
Reviews(50)
This trip was nice the water is beautiful the waves was not too nice I got seasick but the tour it self is worth
Great experience, the crew was awesome. Took excellent care of us. I would highly recommend if visiting Roatan
I booked online and followed up via text to confirm availability and the exact pickup location. The owner initially mentioned that there might not be enough people for the tour and that it could be canceled. I asked about alternative options, but they were very limited. Later, I was reassured that the tour would still happen because the previous day’s trip had been canceled and he was switching to a sunset cruise, which would allow him to accommodate us. However, less than an hour before the scheduled pickup time, the tour was canceled anyway. The weather was perfect, so it’s unclear why the trip didn’t go forward. Save your money and book directly with the same company on the beach or through your hotel for a cheaper and more reliable option
To everyone reading this uncalled for review, I will write this reply to inform everyone who potentially wants to book our CAT cruise of what happened with this guest. The reviewer and her friend booked this SHARED experience on January 15th to sail on January 17th. Immediately after booking I sent her instructions that included the following information: "Just to give you a heads up, we are still trying to meet the minimum number of participants required to sail on Saturday. As of now, the minimum hasn't been met. Is Saturday the only day you can do the activity?" I also told her that worst case scenario she would get a full refund if the minimum wasn't met. That her money was safe. I then proceeded to inform her that we had met the minimum for Monday in case she could sail then or if she wanted to make sure to sail out on Saturday, we had other options. I gave her a Private Cat option, a smaller/shared CAT option that was perfect for her and her friend, a private, smaller charter option and a fishing tour option. However, she said that if Saturday wasn't possible with the original CAT option, she would just take the refund. I told her that we were going to keep her informed if we met the minimum. As tour operators, not the owners of Catamarans, we work along with other operators to meet the minimum number of participants to have the CAT sail. During rainy days like the ones we have been experiencing between January 7th-to date (Jan 18), many people cancel last minute which puts shared experiences like a Catamaran sail at risk of cancellation. A CAT owner will not sail with 3 people, it's simply not economically feasible to sail. Moreover, Friday, the day before her tour, the minimum number of participants required to sail had not been met yet and I informed her that it didn't look promising. Moments later, I got news from the CAT provider who informed me that their CAT sail for the day got cancelled due to weather and that they were moving everyone to the next day, Saturday, and that they were going to sail after all. I then happily informed the guest that the sail was going to happen after all and that it was going to be a sunset sail (since there were no cruise ships on the island and on days without cruise ships, we do sunset sails. Morning sails meet the minimum required to sail usually only when there are cruise ships on the island). She then said "I thought we had booked a daytime trip". In this moment, I knew she was a problem guest. I have decades of experience dealing with customers and identifying types of guests and at that moment I knew she was a high maintenance. The reviewer is clearly a person who doesn't read instructions, descriptions or even cares. Evidently, just because she wanted to do it in the morning, she asked me rhetorically that she had booked for the morning, when, had she read the description for the tour, she would know that sometimes we sail in the morning and sometimes for sunset, depending on availability. The tour's description clearly says " sometimes we go out in the morning and sometimes for sunset." Anyways, I proceeded to keep her informed as best as I could and told her the tour time was based on availability, sometimes in the morning and sometimes in the afternoon. She then said “So is this the same trip we booked for with the same stops” When she said this I actually had a feeling that I should just refund her, but silly me wanted to help her sail so I still tried my best to help her. I proceeded to send her screen shots of the tour description and the inclusions so she would confirm reading them and understand that it was the same tour, just a different time than what “she” wanted it to be. I also told her that it wasn't multiple “stops” like she was assuming it to be, it was just “1 snorkel stop”. The inclusions of the tour clearly state that. Seeing this back and forth, I thought I should offer her different options so as to avoid any problems arising from a last minute cancellation. I knew that she was the kind of person that if things didn’t happen her way, she was going to give us a bad review. But she wanted to either do the original tour or get a refund. So we proceeded with the reservation. Last thing I told her on Friday before her tour date (Saturday) was “In case anything changes please be sure to check our messages up to 1hr before board time”. I said this because the weather was not the best and in case it got cancelled for any given reason. Unfortunately, the CAT provider called me 1 hour before the CAT tour to inform me that a group of 12 (who were all together) and was coming on board had just cancelled because the ocean was moving a little (Definitely not perfect like the reviewer mentions) and they were not interested in doing the sail in those conditions. At that moment, it was just the reviewer, her friend and two others from a different operator who were on the list for the CAT sail. So, the provider cancelled on me. I regretfully had to cancel the guest’s reservation and as I immediately informed her, I went ahead and applied a full refund for her booking. So, not sure why she says "Save your money" as if we didn't immediately give her a refund. Her words after the cancellation and full refund were “Thanks for letting us know an hour before sailing “. Now, here’s the thing. To all of our potential guests, this is a SHARED experience. If you want to guarantee your sail, book a PRIVATE SAIL. It’s more expensive, but you don’t choose to rely on others to sail. This product relies on meeting the minimum number of participants required to sail. If the minimum is not met it will not sail. If a significant number of people who are on the list of a confirmed sail decide to cancel last minute and the number falls under the minimum number required to sail, it will not sail. This rarely happens, but unfortunately, there is always a chance. Unfortunately for us, it happened with a KAREN this time. To be honest, most people understand things don’t always go as planned and are nice about it, as long as they get a full refund for a tour that didn’t happen and it’s nobody’s fault, they are happy to find something else to do. There is plenty to do on this island. Please don’t book a shared experience or something that is weather dependent, and then just because it gets cancelled, trash the small business who is doing their best to serve you. Not everything and not all the time, will things go as planned. When you travel, you should understand this and realize you need to be more open and tolerant to things going sideways. Also, please read the full description, inclusions and instructions for each tour that you book. Sometimes, the answers to your questions are all there! Don’t be a KAREN. Karens are not welcome in Roatan. Links to proof of refund: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LC0U0CcyP68Ru1d7L_bYI9flKqT5luXB/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dhgBRQA-0l3aWfX6ndFAtkAsipM0ejuo/view?usp=drivesdk
Highly recommend this tour if you like being on the water, snorkeling, followed by rum drinks! The snorkeling was great - lots & lots of fish to see. The guides stayed with us to make sure everyone was safe. Drinks & food were excellent (although they did run out of most of the lunch items before all had gone through the line - & they were serving it - it was not buffet. They prob should increase quantity by 10%.) The best part about it was RTGA - & the guide who picked us up at the port & transported us to/from the boat..Jayson. They took very good care of us & Jayson gave us lots of history and information. He even gave us an extra stop during the return at a wonderful small shopping area full of local vendors. Great experience overall!
Despite the crummy weather with a bit of light rain, this catamaran tour turned out to be a wonderful experience. The snorkeling was surprisingly good, with clear water and plenty of marine life to enjoy. One of the highlights was the freshly caught fish, grilled right on the boat—it doesn’t get more authentic or delicious than that! The guides were friendly, attentive, and made sure everyone had a great time, rain or shine. Their easygoing attitude and local knowledge added to the fun atmosphere. Overall, it was a memorable day on the water and a fantastic way to experience Roatan.
Unfortunately this experience was canceled due to weather and ocean quality but the agency sent Jayson to us to go to Las palmas beach and it was awesome. Jayson stayed w us all day took us to see the monkeys and sloths and was just great to be around. Showed us the island and also got us some island experiences! Would definitely use them again!
The cruise was enjoyable despite the unpredictable weather! The drinks, food, staff, and snorkeling deserve 5 stars with Jolly Roger Roatan
Fun and adventure. Very helpful employees. Worth the price and then some . Definitely a great vacation choice
This trip was amazing!! We booked the catamaran for 11 adults, 1 teen—sunset cruise 4 hours. Communication and booking with Danny was seamless (via WhatsApp). He was easygoing and responded to all my questions quickly. He arranged our transportation from our house rental to the port. Gomez and Darbe picked us up and were very kind and knowledgeable about the island. The boat crew (Captain Kerry, Ronny and Daniel) were awesome and accommodating. They took us to 2 different snorkeling locations. Both had a lot to see—lobsters, many beautiful fish, crabs, conch, etc. Also, got a tour of French Key, tons of interesting sites. Ronny bartended and had lots of choices for drinks (alcoholic and non), as well as tasty snacks—charcuterie, homemade pico, fresh fruit, chips/snacks. All locals, the crew had a lot of interesting information about the island and were a pleasure to spend time with. Everyone in our group said this was their favorite part of the trip! Thanks again team!!
Had a wonderful time with our family, Kelsey and his crew were great and showed us awesome hospitality! Couldn’t recommend doing this trip enough would definitely do it again!
