There are about a half-dozen resorts on Guanaja, each made up of small cabins or cabanas and, in some cases, a guest house with individual rooms. A few of these include West Peak Inn, located on the northwestern slope of Guanaja's mountains. Like nearly all the resorts West Peak Inn is a shorty walk from the beach. The cabins have twin or double beds, private baths and mesh-screened porches. The bar is open all the time and the restaurant serves meals, based largely on the catch-of-the-day and locally grown fruits and vegetables, mostly served family style.
WPI Reservations
7 Hangar Way
Watsonville, CA 95076
831-786-0406
westpeakinn.com
Guanaja Island Club is made up of a group of cabanas with a total capacity of 14 people. Each one has a private bathroom, single or queen beds, and decorations made from local Indian artifacts and stone masks. The restaurant and bar serves breakfasts, lunches and dinners. The resort, like the rest of the island accommodations offers services for scuba divers and fishing enthusiasts.
Guanaja Island Club
Guanaja, Bay Islands
Honduras, C.A.
305-720-2868
guanaja.com
Bo's Island House is made up of a main house and two guest houses on Guanaja's largely uninhabited north shore. The resort's capacity is just 12 people. All three buildings sport louvered windows, Spanish tile floors, and balconies which look out on the ocean. Bo Bush, the proprietor, is a local, descended from one of the pirates that used the island as a base of operations.
Bo's Island House
Isla Guanaja
Hopnduras, C.A.
011-504-9963-8551
bosislandhouse.com/index.html
Water sports, particularly those good for snorkeling and scuba diving, and fishing are the biggest tourist draws in Guanaja. (Still the island is which is supported more by the local fishing fleet than tourism.) Dive resorts are found on all the Bay Islands, Roatan, Utila, and Cayos Cochinos, as well as Guanaja. The area has an active coral reef system, the second largest in the world, which means that so-called no-see-ums are plentiful and need to be watched out for. Whale sharks are not uncommon from February through May. The rainy season comes in October and lasts until March, and it can make diving less attractive and can disrupt diving.
Sports fishers visiting Guajana can enjoy both fly fishing (during which they may catch world-class bonefish) and deep sea fishing. Most of the large rolling waves are broken up by the barrier reef before they reach the shoreline. Marlin and other game fish can be caught by the deep sea fishers off the coast of Guajana.
