West Bay Beach Break / Monkey and Sloth Sanctuary

We had a blast at the monkey and sloth sanctuary and the beach was stunning. Our tour guide, Susan I believe, was phenomenal and made our time in Roatan truly enjoyable!

TJ was great to work with! The sloths and monkeys were cool but the beach was AMAZING. Best Tacos on our trip.

It says to meet at gate one! It’s just an exit gate from the port. You’ll have to look for them. It was tough and hard to find them but someone eventually guided us to them across the street. Have the company’s name ready and make sure whoever greets you has your name on their list for the booking. Great for small kids who can hardly do any excursion bc of age limits and the driver was our private tour guide throughout the day and waited near by for us! We enjoyed the monkey and sloth sanctuary and the west bay beach was beautiful! Wish we could’ve stayed a bit longer! They drop us back to the port and got us back 2 hours early!

It was a great experience. Our guide,Armando from MJ Tours was wonderful! We enjoyed the interaction with the monkeys and sloths. We would have like a little more time with the monkeys. West Bay beach was beautiful and fun. What a great day!

The first adventure was finding our tour guide. We arrived at the island on a cruise ship which I assume most participants do and it was a challenge to find our guide. After leaving the ship you walk through a busy port village and have to exit the port to find your guide. It was a bit confusing but we finally found our guide, Eddie. Eddie was an outstanding guide. As we drove through the island to our first stop, the monkey and sloth reserve, he kept us informed about the island, the inhabitants, and answered my many questions. At the reserve he escorted into the building got us our wrist bands and the waited while we toured. While the tour of the reserve was only about an hour it was amazing. Have you ever had a mo key sit on your shoulder or a macaw on your head? You will here. Have you ever seen a sloth up close and personal? Again, you will hear. The kids 12 & 14 were thrilled and amazed which made me happy but even without the kids I would have enjoyed it. Great visit. Eddie was waiting and had the tour vans air conditioning running when we got back in which we all appreciated. Roatan is hot and humid. Next stop was West Bay beach. Beautiful white sand, aqua warm water and paced full of people. You need to be in the water or in the shade. The sun is brutal. We needed to rent beach chairs and an umbrella from one of the baby resorts lining the beach. I paid $46 US for two lounges in the shade and it was well worth it. Before leaving the beach we had a cocktail at a restaurant bar overlooking the beach. There are lots of recreational activities to do at this beach to include diving, jet skiing, riding a banana and much more. Overall it was a great but very hot and humid day so be prepared for that . Eddie took our tired bodies back to the boat reboard the ship on time. Again. Eddie our tour guide made the trip educational and enjoyable.

Believe all of the positive reviews! We were very happy with our excursion. TJ was our tour guide and he told us a lot about the island and answered any questions that we had. He was very helpful and friendly.

We were scheduled to port earlier and we found out we wouldn’t be docking until 1pm. I texted Michelle, I believe that was her name, and she already knew about the delay and time change and eased my mind on them still being there to wait on us. Due to the delay, we decided (us as a family) to just do the sloth and monkey stop and not the beach and they were very accommodating with us. I will say they did give directions on finding our meeting spot when we got off the boat and you have to walk through many people try to sell their tours but the moment I asked for directions or said what tour we booked EVERYONE was so friendly and showed us the way to go one gentleman even helped is cross the busy street. You have to go out of the port area to meet but there was a man with a sign for MJ tours so we knew who to go with. The only part I didn’t love was we had to walk about 5 minutes to get to his parked van. The walk was hot and in a not great area. But again nothing they could help just parking availability. We were the only one in the van with Roger and he told us about Roatan and said we could ask any questions. It was about 15-20 minutes to the sanctuary and our guide was very nice and we LOVED the sloths! Once done, Roger was waiting for us took us right back to the port and stopped to take a picture at the Roatan sign. It was a great experience.

Great experience. The monkey, sloth sanctuary was great for the kids in our group. The guides were very knowledgeable.

Carlos was very friendly and accommodating. I would not go back the area of west bay beach as we were dropped off. There are better parts of west bay. I would recommend bigger van when 8 ppl book.

Our family had a wonderful day in beautiful Roatan with our driver David. The animal sanctuary is always a hit with our kids and the beach area in West Bay is beautiful! Don’t miss snorkeling at the reef. Can’t wait to come back and would highly recommend this fun excursion.