Port day
How much of your port day is actually yours
Ships in Roatán usually give six to eight hours alongside. After disembarkation and the walk back to the gangway, most passengers have four to six usable hours ashore. Every tour we run is built backwards from that number.
5 min
The number on your daily programme is not the number you get. A ship that clears at 8am and calls all aboard at 4pm looks like eight hours. It is not.
Take out the first wave of disembarkation, which rarely moves as fast as the announcement suggests. Take out the walk back through the terminal and the queue at the gangway, and the buffer any sensible person leaves in front of it. What is left is usually four to six hours of island time.
That is why we ask for your ship name and your all aboard time before we plan anything. The tour gets built from the departure time backwards, not from a fixed schedule forwards. A half day at the reef and a half day at the beach fit comfortably in five hours. A full island loop with three stops does not, and we will say so rather than rush you through it.
Two things eat time in ways people do not expect. The drive west to West Bay takes around 30 minutes each way from the Port of Roatán, so a beach afternoon spends an hour in transit before anyone gets wet. And large ships in port on the same day slow the road out of the terminal, which is one of the reasons we watch the arrival board.
If you are cutting it fine, tell us. We would rather move you to a shorter tour than have you watching the clock instead of the reef.
Still deciding how to spend your port day?
Send us your ship and date. We answer from the island, usually within minutes.