Gumbalimba Park vs Monkey Business

[springclean02]

I have heard that at Gumbalimba park you can also play and pet monkeys. Can anyone offer a comparison of the 2 ?

[singwithjoy]

We went to Gumb. Park and Tabayna Beach.

It is a lovely park and they take you on a tour of it.

The monkeys they put on your head. You take a photo.

They take photos also. The parrots they put one on your arm.

You take a photo. They take photos. They show you the photos on a computer. If you want them they burn it to a CD. The cost is $10 for the CD to take home. We just kept our own photos. Just a few minutes spent with the monkeys and parrots. Then on to the tours. There is some steps to climb.

Loved Tabayna Beach. We want to go back there again. We only had 2 hours at the beach. It is long drive to Gumb Park. You go past some of the poorest homes I have ever seen. My heart goes out to those extremely poor people!

[hikerbiker]

Just got off the Crown Princess with a stop in Roatan. We did the Gumbalimba Park & Tabyana Beach excursion with Princess. The 35 minute drive to the park was more fun than the park. They have no speed limits and no traffic lights and the roads are very windy with blind curves. People don't hesitate to pass on a blind hill or curve -- pretty exciting!! Our group seemed to spend too much time at the park and by the time we got to the beach, we had about 1 hour and some of that was spent standing in a slow moving line for the buffet lunch. The 2 highlights at the park are the parrots and the monkeys. You walk up, they bring out 1 parrot from a cage and you take turns getting your photo taken with the bird on your arm or shoulder, etc. When you get to the monkeys, who are also caged, they bring one out and you take turns getting your photo taken. The other "highlight" is walking over a rope bridge. Our guide seemed to be a pleasant young man who described some of the flora and fauna we were seeing in the park but his heavy accent made it very difficult for many in our group to understand what he was saying. They post the times of the shuttles back to the ship and you can take any shuttle. If I had to do it over again, I would have just opted for the beach, or some other excursion. Please note that Gumbalimba Park does have it's own beach, a swimming pool, and a zip-line but our excursion did not include those activities.