Booked CCV Oct 18-25 2008

[1_T_Submariner]

Thanks for all of the comments, Threads and posts on Roatan. We decided to go to Coco view for a week after reading many reviews etc...

My questions.
1. Anyone else gonna be there?
2. Please tell me about the food. I've heard plenty and good. My wife doesn't eat anything from the Sea. Will she be ok or should we pack snacks.
3. Diet Mt. Dew? Buy it or bring it? She won't survive a week without it.

Thanks all for any advice.

 

[deco_martini]

Every day for lunch I ate black beans and tortillas. They had other stuff. But their slow cooked beans with rice on tortillas were really good. Dinner was always good. The exception was the BBQ night where they had ribs. They weren't smoked ribs so the meat wasn't tender. Normally you would boil the ribs to make them tender before grilling them in this case, but I don't expect top notch BBQ in Honduras.

The bar always had glass bottled coca cola made with real sugar (not the corn syrup based post-New Coke we have here in the US). I had one of those a night but I don't think there was Mountain Dew.

Take snacks. Always take snacks even if you are going to a Palace Resort on Cozumel. Sometime you want your kind of comfort food.

Here's an old trip report I wrote about the CCV that some consider the pentultimate trip report of trip reports:
Deco Martini Does Roatan

 

[1_T_Submariner]

Cane sugar Coke in a Bottle Mmmmmm. I enjoy them everytime I go to Mexico on Buisness (no where near the ocean).

Ok, thanks for the tip on BBQ. I don't boil mine I smoke them for 10-12 hours usually with a pork or Beef Brisket. I usually stay away from BBQ unless I know it is going to be real smoked.

Anyway thanks for the comments/trip report.

 

[1_T_Submariner]

Oh One more Question.

Does the dive shop do AOW classes? My wife will not go below the Thermocline in Illinois so the deep dive has to be somewhere tropical. Anyone taken a class at CCV?

Thanks again.

 

[Doc]

1. Anyone else gonna be there?
Doesn't hurt to ask here, but the real list is at When are you going to CCV? Post it here on this continuing thread... - CoCo Chat
2. Please tell me about the food. I've heard plenty and good. My wife doesn't eat anything from the Sea. Will she be ok or should we pack snacks.
I'm with your honey on that one. There is always beef or chicken. (along with the other options as mentioned above)
3. Diet Mt. Dew? Buy it or bring it? She won't survive a week without it.
Dead diver walking.
Even if something is in stock on any given week, it really doesn't mean it will be available tomorrow.

This is a universal Honduran law. This is especially likely if the commodity sold well, was in demand, or was profitable. Generically it is known as The H Factor (H meaning "Honduras")

Oh One more Question.

Does the dive shop do AOW classes?

Patty Grier (another Chicagoan) owns and operates the PADI Dockside Dive Center. She has a great teaching style and has also built an excellent facility with first rate dive gear for rental.

CCV is ideal for the Night Diving segment as the "Front Yard" dive site is full of easily recognizable (man made) objects. easy to make maps of, easy to understand- impossible to get lost... even at night.

Patty also offers the U/W Naturalist Specialty, and due to her long tenure diving the lush shallow walls of the South Side of Roatan, she is uniquely qualified to do so. Take a flashlight on every dive and a magnifying glass, too.

You really can't go wrong.

 

[1_T_Submariner]

Thanks Roatanman! I actually met you at Our world underwater 2 years ago I think you where in the booth that had a Cocoview rep in it.

So Bring the Diet Dew! Thanks again. I'll check out the link.

 

[Doc]

Thanks Roatanman! I actually met you at Our world underwater 2 years ago I think you where in the booth that had a Cocoview rep in it.

This year I was a bit more mobile. I think I was at the CCV booth for a total of about ten minutes! And that kind of tells a careful observer something about CCV, as well~ even a beat up old warhorse like me can enjoy the diving at CCV.

I was going through another round of back surgeries, so this year at OWU I had rented a motorized scooter thingie. I had to zoom over to the seminar rooms every 35 minutes and do the introductions for the various Wreck Diving Speakers including Chatterton and Kohler, as well as less recognizable but equally interesting experts.

As messed up as my back has been, I have still managed to be comfortable and happy diving at CCV. The two stair steps up to get to meals are easily worth it what with the wafting scent of dinner! Otherwise- I can shuffle around pretty easily- hard sand, secure surfaces, easy access boats.

Enjoy your trip, write us a report. We are going other dive destinations beforehand, but will return to CCV in about a year from today. Until then....

 

[PADI Daddy]

I just booked the whole family for CCV MAR 7-14 2009. One of us needs to get her certification while there, the rest of us will have our AOW and several dives under our belts by then. This will be our first BIG trip together - appreciate the inputs on what to do, how to plan, etc.

PD

 

[parrotheaddiver]

just follow CCV According to Doc.....he is a wealth of information.....also visit coco chat linked above in Doc's post...

yummmm I can just taste those garlic mashed potatoes and homemade bread now...

 

[cfelliot]

I get hungry just looking at this picture