I’ve received an email from Deep Blue, in Utila, Honduras, asking whether we’d be interested in organising a gay week there.

With the US$ exchange rate as it is, their rates are already quite attractive - from US$1160 for a week (which is about £600), including Ocean front accommodation, full board, 3 boat dives per day, unlimited shore diving, and taxes. If we organise a group to go, then they could offer us additional discounts.
Update: Deep Blue will offer us a discount of around 35% during the Whale Shark High Season (Feb, May, or June), if we get a group of 10 or more people together.

Flights, of course, are what bump up the overall price, but flights with American Airlines to San Pedro Sula via Miami work out at about £475. On top of that, there’s then the flight to Utila, which is about $60 each way - however with a large group it might work out cheaper to charter our own plane for the internal flights!

The trip could also easily be combined with a week’s diving on Roatan (the next island) , for as little as £350 extra.

Deep Blue can accommodate 20 guests, and while we might not be able to fill the whole resort from within GLUG, I think if we could fill half of it, then with our contacts via DFL (Diving for Life) in other Gay & Lesbian clubs in the USA & Canada we could well find another 10 people.

(For anyone who wants to see Whale Sharks, the season is from February to May.)

Click on the Deep Blue logo above to check out their website.

You can also read a trip report here (you’ll need Acrobat Reader).

I’ll be raising this at the January Meeting, but in the meantime, if anyone has any comments or questions, please leave them below, or email them to me by clicking my name at the top of the post.