Dive bus?? i dont understand?
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Dear Damselfish,I've only stayed at 3 places, though I've visited many of the others.
Lion's Dive, long ago. I personally wouldn't stay there now because the area has gotten so much busier and IMO both shore and boat diving options are better towards the western end of the island anyway. The dive op there (and IMO far too many places on Curacao) is Ocean Encounters, which I'm not fond of.
Habitat, many times. Great dive op and set up (though the shore dive there, while still nice, is showing the wear.) Hotel itself used to be nice enough but it's seriously suffering from lack of maintenance, and I probably won't go back there until/unless I hear they've improved things.
Kura Hulanda Lodge. Very nice place with a great shore dive, as good or better than most boat dives. Dive shop is Ocean Encounters West, which is better in some ways than the main Ocean Encounters. The dive setup there is pretty good though not nearly as convenient as it could be - it's been described in other threads here. I would love to stay here again, but Ocean Encounters did a number of things that really pissed us off so I'm not sure. (Problems with management, not the dive staff which was great.)
Hi everyone,
My Fiance and I are considering a few destinations for a 5-7 day dive trip,one of them being Curacao. My one major question is this.........is Curacao (like its sister island Bonaire) mainly for shore diving? I understand Shore diving is great and cheap and all that............however we arent looking for that. We would prefer to go out by boat and dive off of the boat. Now do not get me wrong we will try a shore dive while we are there. I do not however want that to be the focus of the trip.
any input would be greatly appreciated
thanks
i cannot speak for ocean encounters west since they seem to be not as integrated into the ocean encounters family as the other locations (ocean encounters curacao). we did two boat trips with ocean encounters curacao last week. one of them was great (musroom forest) and the other one was logistically srewed up (klein curacao) and should not have been the way it was run that day.
i also did a night dive with jeremiah from ocean encounters at the hilton and have only extremely good things to say about him and his staff there. he did way more than was ever expected of him - absolutely highest marks.