Honduras Travel

Interested in visiting multiple countries without having to pack and unpack your suitcase? Perhaps you are traveling with several generations and wondering how you are going to keep the teens happy, as well as grandma.

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“I think cruising is one of the best values, and the food is good,” says Pacifica’s Marisol Vuskovic. The retired travel agent and cruise enthusiast has sailed with Princess Cruises 18 times and enjoys repeat customer benefits such as cabin upgrades, complimentary laundry and mini bar and 150 free Internet minutes.

The whole purpose of this trip was to show people that, despite the travel advisory warnings on Honduras by many of the Western nations, it is actually a very safe place to travel.

There has been some unrest in the capital city, but there wasn’t a military coup as the Western media says. Also, anything that is going on in the country is happening in Tegucigalpa, and though that is very little, it certainly has no effect on tourists to the country. Most of the country has carried on with their every day lives. As we traveled around the country, I was shocked by how few people there were … the restaurants were empty, the hotels were unoccupied, the beaches were bare.

“The president’s been arrested already this morning,” hotel owner Jeff Kuken told me and my wife one Sunday morning in late June.

We had spent months planning a vacation across Honduras, but now Latin America’s first military coup in decades was unfolding on the third day of our trip. Not exactly part of our plans, and definitely not included in guidebooks that painted Honduras as the Next Big Destination for affordable eco-tourism.

“The military flew him out of the country at gunpoint,” said Kuken, a Boston native who owns Casa Calico on this beautiful island known for its scuba diving and snorkeling.