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Hey- if you liked AKR, stick with it. What works, works. I have spent a few days diving and eating at AKR, never slept there.
CCV (CoCoView) is more of a dive-dive-dive kind of place. Not much frou-frou (no wait staff at meals), not as close to the West End for different fun bars and new restaurants. Remember- kids are okay at AKR, but at CCV they have to be extremely mature and dive-focused before being encouraged to come along with their parents.
AKR has a steady flow of locals which adds to the experience, they also host the bulk of cruise ship divers on a daily basis. At CCV, you're on a small 10 acre private islet- very quiet and you'll know everyone by the middle of the week.
At CCV, the place is very compact, one or two steps up, everything is pretty close to the dive op. Sixteen of the rooms are on stilts over an active reef. At AKR, the rooms offer similar amenities, but several of the better ones are out on land at Anthony's Key itself, necessitating a boat ride to mainside.
Without inciting a debate as to diver fitness, understand that CCV is essentially handicapped accessible, AKR requires some 65 steps three times a day. Some divers are in pretty good shape, but have trouble walking.
The diving is also quite different. AKR features deeper profiles, deeper wrecks, more stark environments & geography, more larger fish. Lobsters, Barracudas and more. From Sept>Mar the Norther cold fronts can make it quite a mess, otherwise it is usually dead calm.
CCV, on the south side, features shallow vertical Sunlit walls that break close to shore in 5' and drop straight down at 90' to sand- lost of macro critters! CCV has an easy shore dive that includes a DC3 aircraft and a 140' intact tanker. There is usually a 2' running swell because of the prevailing ESE winds. In that CCV is on a dry sandy cay and in the wind- less Sand Flies.
Both offer good dive services and opportunities for diving. AKR is a more up-scale affair, CCV is where stinky-wet divers go.
Underwater Geography contrasted and explained by the local expert:
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