Roatan Gumbalimba Preservation Eco-Park & Beach
Description
GUMBALIMBA PARK is a family-friendly attraction on the island of Roatan that offers visitors the opportunity to meet with friendly Capuchin white-face monkeys and free flying exotics birds such as macaws, parrots, and hummingbirds. Visitors can spot indigenous lizards and iguanas all around the park. you can gaze at a variety of almost 2,500 preserved insects from all around the world in an air-conditioned insectarium, wander through a tropical jungle with nature trail, a suspension bridge, colorful flowers and butterflies, numerous waterfalls and more than 200 vibrant plants and tree species. Visit the pirates cave filled with maps, weapons, and art works to learn about their history in the Bay Island. After that you can head over to the west bay beach foe a cooling swim with your family and friends before heading back to your ship. Please bring walking shoes, Camera,
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Itinerary
Opportunity to hang out with the white face Capuchin monkey, exotic birds iguanas learn about over 2500 preserved insects, zip line, beach relaxation, pool wander through nature trails and across a suspension bridge, and colorful flowers and butterflies.
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What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Instruction meeting point after getting off your ship: There are two ship docks in Roatan. They are Mahogany Bay cruise port where Carnival Cruises, Princess Cruises, Holland America Cruises, Costa Cruises, and other ships dock. Then there are the Town Center Port of Roatan where Royal Caribbean cruises, celebrity Cruises, Norwegian Cruises, TUI Cruises and other ship dock. If your ship is dock on the Mahogany Bay Cruise port once, you walk off your ship walk up through the shopping area pass the water fountains up to the red top building on the right. It is the white taxis terminal it is a walking corridor at the end of the hall make a left on the pavement and walk up and over the hill through the big green gate. On the other side down the hill a representative will be there expecting you 1 to 2 hours after your ship arrival with a warm welcome and a smile on our faces ready to make your day a memorable one, look for Roatan Anderson Tours sign. If in a wheel chair or a scooter, you can get a taxi to bring you over the hill for an additional fee. NOTE: There will be local independent drivers and guide trying to sell you a tour just tell them you have book with us and they will leave you alone. After your excursion full of excitement, adrenaline and fun, we personally drive you back over the hill inside the gate. If your ship is dock on the Town Center Port of Roatan, down in Coxen Hole once you walk off your ship it is much easier for you to find us. Just walk straight out pass all the shops then make a right. You will see lot of tour kiosk continue through the terminal making a small left straight out to the main street once exiting gate #1 look across the street for Roatan Anderson Tours sign a representative will be there waiting for you 1 to 2 hour after ships arrival. If you make friends on board or have any family member and they are not booked with us but want to tag along that is not a problem, we will accommodate them with you. Once outside and having trouble locating us just feel free to ask any the security guard or any other local tour associate for Shervin Hamilton or Roatan Anderson Tours sign or you can contact us by using information on voucher. If by any reason you decide to cancel your tour with us and didn’t had any internet on board or forget to email us back before your arrival to the island we will appreciates and be more than thankful if you can call us or send someone from your party to please inform us of your cancellation. Please print out your confirmation form and bring along with you. “If you’ve enjoyed your excursion with Roatan Anderson Tours, please drop in your Review on our TripAdvisor page as Roatan Anderson Tours forward it to families and friends that wants to come down and visit the island.”
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(36)
Frodie was a great tour guide. We thoroughly enjoyed the info he provided. Because he is a local he was knowledgeable. Private tour much better than a bus load!
Traffic was seriously congested where we were supposed to meet our tour guide. The owner himself came, met us in his personal truck to take us to our 1st destination so we would not be behind on schedule, from there it was very nice arrangements. Overall I would recommend this company for all your shore excursion needs.
Amazing views and excellent service. Our driver was super friendly and worked hard to ensure we enjoyed all the activities. We went to the park, enjoyed the beach, and even went on the glass boat tour (boat tickets were not included in the tour price). The driver also stopped at several viewpoints to allow us to take pictures. Just let the driver know if you want to add activities or go to different places. My family and I had a great time at Roatan.
The trip was wonderfull. Our guide Artmon was very attentive, competent, and made us this day memorable. We enjoyed Rocatan and in particularly, the Natural Park Gumbalimba. The park is well looked after and presents beyond monkeyes, guanas and macas Rocatan's history. The insectarium is also amaising. All in all, the trip was well organized and performed. Thank you, Artmon again.
The animal park was amazing I really loved the macaws and monkeys! ALLEN, the tour guide was so nice ! I HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Great tour guide! He was flexible and offered to take us anywhere. Saw the Park and animals, very interesting!! Went for an interesting horse back ride, guide made it fun! Stopped at the rum and chocolate factories!
Thank you for your feedback it's very important to us and thank you again for choosing us for your Roatan Excursion
The PROS: Our Driver, Paul, started out a little quiet, but warmed up and answered questioned as we asked. He was very knowledgable of the area, and as a lifelong resident, he had many personal stories to share. My wife and I dont drink so we passed on the Rum tasting. He gave us a great tour of the Island and even made a stop at a local grocery and few stores at our request. He accomodated us and really made our tour personalized. The Park was beautiful and the animals we saw were great. Loved the chance to have Parrots and monkeys on us. The CONS: Honestly, I did feel a little rushed at the Animal sanctuary, our young guide was very nice, but we always felt a bit rushed. I was disappointed that the bug display was only dead bugs, was hoping to see live insects in display. I was looking forward, as I saw in a picture, the chance to hold a sloth. Didnt see any. We were never directed towards a pool area or food. Just pointed towards the gift shop and corralled to the golfcart and driven back to our van/driver. I noticed a snack bar of sorts, but all I saw were over priced sodas, drinks and chips and maybe hotdogs. Nothing too inviting. Finally. in the title, it says "Preservation Park & Horseback Ride", we never had a horse ride of anykind, nor even saw any horses. When I asked our guide about the horse ride, he was surprised. He was unaware of any horserides. we dropped it and heading back to port Overall we enjoyed the experience, great driver, nice guide, pretty clean park, well trained monkeies and Parrots, but we were left wanting more for the price, particularly a sloth (famous in Roatan) and a horseride.
Gumbalimba park was nice but kinda expensive for what it was. We were done with our tour in about an hour. We didn’t visit their beach so I can’t comment on that part. We did enter their bug/butterfly room and I was surprised to only see preserved bugs in display cases. I was left with wanting to see these bugs/butterflies alive in a walk in enclosure of some sort. I loved interacting with the macaws and the monkeys, but that’s really all you’re paying for. The guide and animal handlers were nice and knowledgeable. Overall - If you want a good photo op and good amount of time with animals I’d say it’s a nice visit.
Hi hope all is well am glad you was able to enjoy your self get a lot of photos to share and am also sorry u feel like you was over charge but it's the price of the park sorry u feel that way but everyone pays it if they want to try the park from 3 years and onward
This tour was not worth it and the title is deceiving. The title makes it seem as if you will go to gumbalimba and a west bay beach. The beach is the small beach at gumbalimba. There were numerous reviews that mentioned going to another beach. I asked if we could go to another beach because I thought we were going to gumbalimba and a local beach. I was told no other beaches. For that I would have been better off doing the option with the cruise as it was cheaper and faster. The cruise ships have shuttle buses going back to the port every hour from gumbalimba. The entire experience started off very rough. We had a 9am meet up time. We made it to them 7 minutes before 9am. We were told to stand to the side where another family was already waiting. We had young children with us ages 4-10. There is no where to sit as it’s just dirt and gravel. After over 15 minutes of waiting, I asked how much longer before our driver arrives. As this was a private excursion, I expected the driver to be there close to 9am, the time the excursion was set to start. Anderson shared there was heavy traffic and asked we wait a few more minutes. I went back over to my family and 5 minutes later Anderson says your driver is here. I see the driver but no vehicle, so I inquired. He shared since we didn’t want to wait we would need to walk to the parking lot where the car is parked. He shared it was just down the street. It didn’t feel if we had a choice, as the driver was already there and he didn’t ask us if we preferred to wait or preferred to walk. We grabbed all of our belongings. The driver didn’t help carry any and off we went walking down the side of the road (no sidewalks). We walked swiftly in the sun, at times, in the grass, some muddy areas, as the traffic went by. It was hot and everyone was sweating. We asked how much longer is the walk. Then we came upon a zipline canopy area with a shop and a bench. Our driver told us to sit at the bench while he went to get the car. By this time, we are all hot and sweating. The children were not happy and cranky. It took another 10 minutes or so before he arrived with the car. It was around 9:30. All in all we waisted 40 minutes. Luckily we had our own water as they didn’t provide any. This also let me know there is no way this driver was on his way to meet us by 9 then had enough time to turn around and go pack the car then walk to where we were waiting. I don’t think they had any plans of having a driver by 9am to meet us. The drive to gumbalimba was as about 30 minutes. After our driver parked we almost had to walk again to the main entrance but the staff saw us and picked us up in the golf cart. The driver paid for the tickets then we waited for the Gumbalimba tour to start. Gumbalimba itself was enjoyable. It was a lot of waiting for the various experiences as we arrived AFTER the cruise ship groups. The driver was polite. He secured a table at the small beach for us. On our way back to the port, he let us stop to take a picture at the Roatan sign. Overall, I would not book this private tour again. It was too much hassle to do with young children. It cost more and was much more hassle than going with the cruise.
Hi hope all is well the way your saying your trying with all your might to make sound bad is possible When you arrive it was pass 9am local time already long gone I told you guys fismrst group had already left I meet you guys personaly I dispatch you all personaly I told you the van had already left was going to put you guys on another van just your party you agreed u saw the traffic with your own eyes standing beside me while receiving other Guest right or wrong the Driver went for his car we wanted about 15 to 20 minutes not 40 after the Driver provided was still stock in traffic after it has been a motocycle accident I told another Driver to walk you guys over to his car and to had drop you off to Gumbalimba Park then the other Driver would had pick u guys up u agreed again once we take u to the park and check u in to the office get your risa band we cant follow u in to the park we have to wait outside in the parking lot the property is over 10 acres thats why they ask if you are in good walking condition cause there is some walk or you can higher a golf cart to go through after finish they have the beach and pool down in there if u dont want to stay there and want to go to the bigger beach as some Guest want to you can just that you have to pay for the Resort facilites
August was our tour guide and did an amazing job. You will not leave the tour without any questions about the island and lives of the people that live there. The animals were friendly and we were able to take amazing pictures. The beach was absolutely gorgeous and the food had me blown away. Thank you August for an amazing experience and an everlasting memory of my trip to Roatan.
