EXCELLENT TOUR! - The animal park was amazing I really loved the macaws and monkeys! ALLEN, the tour guide was so nice ! I HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Exploring at its best - 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!

Would highly recommend booking with August as your tour guide!!! - 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.

Gmbalimba preserve — Roatan - Ron our driver made this tour more memorable, he was patient, a good listener ensuring that he helped deliver our likes and make small modifications if needed and avoid dislikes. The park provided a good educational tour along with some fun time monkeys, macaw’s.

Great tour - Excellent jungle nature park. Outstanding guide and beautiful walkways. The tour included seeing the animals in uncaged conditions. The staff were all great. The white faced monkeys and macaws were playful and freely interacted with the tourists. Excellent and efficient shuttle service from and back to the hotel.

Good not great - Erik was our guide and he was very nice. Had to walk a little way from port entrance on very muddy streets and uneven surfaces to get to side of road where we waited about 10 minutes for Erik to go get his car. The rum tasting was good and we bought some but would be fine if we didn’t go there. Gumbalimba park was good with the monkey and bird part but the insectarium is just displays with preserved or fake bugs. And the cave is not original. We did not go to the beach at Gumbalimba, Erik took us to one just down the road because he said there would be no sellers hounding us to buy stuff on the beach. The beach was nice but seating was like sardines and the sellers were all over everyone! The food and drinks at the beach bar were good.

Beautiful Park but fell a little short - 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.

Expensive but a nice photo op with animals. - 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.

The title is misleading, only includes Gumbalimba - 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.

Mixed bag - The tour operator provides no communication prior to the tour...you kinda have to go on faith that they'll be there to pick you up. Luckily for us they were. You need to exit through gate 1...I don't know if there even is a gate 3 at town center as the description states. The tour bus was clean and comfortable. The park is ok. The animal encounters are great, but the rest of the tour is just ok...everything is very manufactured. The beach at the park looks nice, but unfortunately for us the rest of the tour group wanted to go to a different beach where we had to pay for beach chairs to enjoy the beach. The beach was great but I didn't want to pay the extra money. Overall I can't say one way or the other if I'd recommend this tour or company.