Utopia Village/ U Dive
Utila, Honduras · Dive Center★ 4.7
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Highlights
- PADI Resort
About Utopia Village/ U Dive
Tucked off the coast of Honduras, Utopia Village — home to U Dive — sits at the edge of an abundant reef on Utila, the smallest of the Bay Islands. It's a casual, friendly, off-the-beaten-path retreat a twenty-minute boat ride from the island's only town, with no roads, no fast food and no nightclubs — just palm leaves in the breeze and the ocean rolling in.
Diving at Utila
This PADI dive resort puts you at the edge of the largest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere, with over 100 charted dive sites — sea mounts, shallow fringing reefs and plunging walls circling the Cayman Trench. The North side is known for its drop-offs, considered deep dives, where the wall's upper edge begins from 55–85 feet. Inshore, medium to shallow coral reefs run 20–55 feet, suiting both novices and experts, and three wreck sites round out the terrain.
Utila's waters host over 90% of the marine inhabitants found in the Caribbean — schools of Blue Tangs and Southern Sennets, and everything from juvenile reef residents to Whale Sharks, Manta Rays, Spotted Eagle Rays and Moray Eels. With water temperatures averaging 80 degrees or warmer, gentle currents and 100 feet of visibility, it's a destination you won't forget.
Marine life
Location & contact
Calle De Suenos, Islas de la Bahia, Utila, No State, Honduras
+504 3344-9387
Reviews · 6
★ 4.76 guest reviews
★ 5 · Grant Sinclair · 2009-07-09Utopia Lodge is excellent. It provides a unique combination of seclusion, small group diving, high end accommodations, and excellent food. It is not in town (you take a boat to get to the lodge), so if you’re interested in a wild night life, this is not for you (unless you bring your own group, in which case you could certainly create your own at their bar). However, if you would like to be someplace that is quiet, relatively secluded, and provides excellent Caribbean diving for all levels of experience, it is. The lodge is beautiful, the staff is friendly and accommodating, and the dive sites are relatively close (5 to 20 minutes), variable (each dive was unique) and abundant (we never hit the same site twice). Plus they have an absolutely beautiful section of reef at the resort that provides for great shore dives. D.M.s Antonio and Oscar were filling in for some dive staff who were on vacation. They were very energetic, enthusiastic and friendly. They took great care of us and our equipment. Boat captain Leonard went out of his way to find dolphins (we swam with wild dolphins twice – they were incredible!) and whale sharks (didn’t find these, but it was late in the season, so we weren’t surprised). We have done 270+ dives in the Caribbean, and this was as good a dive team/experience as we have ever had. The chef while we were there was John. He is new (it was his first week) to Utopia and he is superb. The food was consistently marvelous, as were the desserts. He really works hard to make sure the meals are delicious and unique (nothing remotely close to the standard meals found throughout the Caribbean – and we’ve been to many resorts). The only two downs (as you will read in other reviews) are the sand fleas and the local air travel. But the fleas can be controlled with DEET (we used a 35% cream that worked fine) and the air travel wasn’t really different from any other puddle jumper experiences we have had. Neither would prevent us from going back again. We will return to Utopia and recommend it to all. It was wonderful!
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