Rileybri
Contributor
You asked how it “usually” runs; Well t my LDS Waterfront Dive Center (Only one of 2 within a reasonable distance away and one is going under) When you pay for a class you get your cert. even if they have to bend over backwards to do it. The dont have their own pool but we do have a lake to train in conditions dependant. They are a NAUI shop primarily but do offer a few PADI certs. They offer one of three choices one week intensive, six week spread out of custom with referral.
Is the shop you are working with your only choice? You may have better luck going to another shop, a competitor and seeing if they will help you out? At the very least that info will make good ammunition for getting what you need from your current choice of LDS. how ever this winds up for you I would never step foot in that LDS again and would provide accurate information who the shop is to the cert. agency, Yelp and hear on SB lest someone else winds up in the same position as you are in now.
In the future dont leave key components to an expensive dive vacation for a few weeks before you go and dont take "maybe" and "will try" as acceptable answers. Its your $$ they want and its your choice to learn to dive with them!
Is the shop you are working with your only choice? You may have better luck going to another shop, a competitor and seeing if they will help you out? At the very least that info will make good ammunition for getting what you need from your current choice of LDS. how ever this winds up for you I would never step foot in that LDS again and would provide accurate information who the shop is to the cert. agency, Yelp and hear on SB lest someone else winds up in the same position as you are in now.
In the future dont leave key components to an expensive dive vacation for a few weeks before you go and dont take "maybe" and "will try" as acceptable answers. Its your $$ they want and its your choice to learn to dive with them!