I am a CoCo View fan. Once to AKR was enough for me. There are many reasons, but two top my list:
1. Too many stairs at AKR - my knees are terrible.
2. The ability to do dawn shore dives at CCV. I cannot overstate how much I love dawn dives. The shift change is super interesting.
I would also take issue with the idea that CCV is more for shallow dives. I do love being shallow sometimes, but we have also done CCV with rebreathers and trimix. You can go as deep as you want on the walls. There are some amazing fish down there for those trained and equipped to go deep. I have seen cave and candy bass down there as well as some larger groupers.
YMMV
1. Too many stairs at AKR - my knees are terrible.
2. The ability to do dawn shore dives at CCV. I cannot overstate how much I love dawn dives. The shift change is super interesting.
I would also take issue with the idea that CCV is more for shallow dives. I do love being shallow sometimes, but we have also done CCV with rebreathers and trimix. You can go as deep as you want on the walls. There are some amazing fish down there for those trained and equipped to go deep. I have seen cave and candy bass down there as well as some larger groupers.
YMMV