Lodging:
We stayed at Bamboo Bali Bonaire. It’s a nice quiet little place with five cabins in a pretty garden.
We arrived at 4 am lt. and the owner had send a taxi which was waiting for us at the airport. When we arrived Anno (the owner) was waiting for us at the gate to Bamboo Bali. He gave us a quick tour of our cabin, a stocked fridge (for breakfast) and a bottle of rose wine where waiting for us inside.
The owners are very friendly people, we felt very welcome and at home.
Food:
The restaurants on the island are all pretty good as far as we can tell.
I’ll make a list of the ones I still remember:
I must be forgetting quite a few, but believe me, the food was great.
Diving:
Bamboo Bali works with Wannadive if you take the package, otherwise you are free to chose some other dive op. We went with Wannadive.
We did all diving by ourselves so there was not that much contact after the introduction, but whenever we encountered somebody they where friendly and helpful. They helped us find seahorses and a frogfish (bloody buggers are difficult to find)
We saw a lot of turtles, a stingray, a few eagle rays, a frog fish, two seahorses, and loads of other cool stuff. It seams to be raining barracuda’s over there (well, with our limited diving experience, it seemed a lot).
The shore diving is quite easy, just park your car at a marked or unmarked site, put on your gear and get in the water. We used the guide “Bonaire Shore Diving Made easy) as a reference on where to enter the water and it really made our lives a lot easier.
In short: can’t wait to go back!!!!
We stayed at Bamboo Bali Bonaire. It’s a nice quiet little place with five cabins in a pretty garden.
We arrived at 4 am lt. and the owner had send a taxi which was waiting for us at the airport. When we arrived Anno (the owner) was waiting for us at the gate to Bamboo Bali. He gave us a quick tour of our cabin, a stocked fridge (for breakfast) and a bottle of rose wine where waiting for us inside.
The owners are very friendly people, we felt very welcome and at home.
Food:
The restaurants on the island are all pretty good as far as we can tell.
I’ll make a list of the ones I still remember:
- Rum Runner's: we ate here a few times, lunch is a lot but a bit greasy for our liking. Dinner is great, especially the "catch and shrimp pil pil".
- It’s raining fishes: Nice food and friendly staff. We had dinner there once.
- Bamboo: Oh so good. We had dinner there once and it was awesome. They also have another restaurant of which I can’t remember the name which was also very, very good
- City Café: Try the seafood pasta!!!! It’s wonderful.
- Will’s: We had a very good appetizer of smoked marlin but the main dish was a bit of a disappointment. The wahoo was grilled to perfection and the gratin dauphinoise was good, but there was some sort of sweet and sour sauce on the wahoo of which you could definitely taste that it came out of a jar. Bummer since there are so many restaurants that give you fresh stuff.
- Mona Lisa Bar: very friendly staff and oh so good.
- Eli Deli: good sandwiches also take out
- Time to Eat: very nice patio and very good food.
I must be forgetting quite a few, but believe me, the food was great.
Diving:
Bamboo Bali works with Wannadive if you take the package, otherwise you are free to chose some other dive op. We went with Wannadive.
We did all diving by ourselves so there was not that much contact after the introduction, but whenever we encountered somebody they where friendly and helpful. They helped us find seahorses and a frogfish (bloody buggers are difficult to find)
We saw a lot of turtles, a stingray, a few eagle rays, a frog fish, two seahorses, and loads of other cool stuff. It seams to be raining barracuda’s over there (well, with our limited diving experience, it seemed a lot).
The shore diving is quite easy, just park your car at a marked or unmarked site, put on your gear and get in the water. We used the guide “Bonaire Shore Diving Made easy) as a reference on where to enter the water and it really made our lives a lot easier.
In short: can’t wait to go back!!!!
