Ministryofgiraffes
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I will also check out cobalt. I’m just miffed that their website isn’t iPad optimized, so I can’t check availability... and I’m too lazy to walk across the room to get my Mac
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If you stay along the SMB corridor pretty much all the ops will pick you up and there are lots of great condos but you would have to get yourself to shore dive locations. You might also look at The Grand Caymanian. We have guests who stay there and the love the units. The beach isn’t great and it is set back well of the road behind a golf course but has a pool and Divetech may have specials as that is where they have their shop/office.
Grand Caymanian has been discussed recently and sounds like a good deal for what you get. Note that while Divetech is there, they don't typically have boats leaving from their dock on the sound there. (On some other thread someone said they might do it for a group booked there.) So you'd be getting driven to wherever the boat is leaving from, same as lots of other places you could stay at. Most pickups on Cayman are land pickups where they drive you to a dock someplace else, not dock pickups. I'm not sure there are any docks at all along SMB itself. But there are some ops that do pickups some places on SMB, directly from the beach. So you might look into that if walking out to the boat is more important than on-site shore diving. (Note that even places with docks, there's no guarantee their boats will leave from their own dock, it's dependent on conditions, and possibly destination.)We may opt for the grand cayman, forget about the shore dives as divetech are also situated there, or pickup from there etc...but I imagine most pickup from most places.. as long as there is a dock. I’m just lazy and don’t want to haul gear/Nauticam/strobes etc.etc.
Grand Caymanian has been discussed recently and sounds like a good deal for what you get. Note that while Divetech is there, they don't typically have boats leaving from their dock on the sound there. (On some other thread someone said they said they might do it for a group booked there.) So you'd be getting driven to wherever the boat is leaving from, same as lots of other places you could stay at. Most pickups on Cayman are land pickups where they drive you to a dock someplace else, not dock pickups. I'm not sure there are any docks at all along SMB. But there are some ops that do pickups some places on SMB, directly from the beach. So you might look into that if walking out to the boat is more important than on-site shore diving. (Note that even places with docks, there's no guarantee their boats will leave from their own dock, it's dependent on conditions, and possibly destination.)
Ugh... good tip though, thanks... I really am extremely lazy...and spoiled it is great that you even get a pickup, but I’d prefer to walk to a dock and get collected if possible. Cobalt and lighthouse just went back up the list