pelan-pelan
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Expect to be in Dominica next summer - based on what I've read here am looking forward to it. Many thanks for all the information.
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Brewone0to:We have a dive shop in Tampa sponcering a trip to Dominica. It is not all inclusive for the food though. What is the typical lunch and dinner cost at FT Young resort?
Just wondering if the 280 added for inclusive per person is well worth it.
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Thanks
pelan-pelan:We are going in the summer. Have been speaking to people who have been to Dominica and found out:-
Three hotels in a row - Castle Comfort, Anchorage and Evergreen CC and Anch have dive operations. They share same house reef. Apparently not v spectacular - but it is difficult to tell with house reefs. If you're prepared to hang and wait you can see amazing things on a dull bit of reef - on the other hand you can get very bored!
Spoke to a couple who had stayed at Anchorage and they had enjoyed and would go back. Someone else said something about cruise boats and people from the cruises filling up the dive boats at Castle Comfort - and possibly other dive operations. But the dive operation at CC has been recommended by others.
And the inland hiking etc has been much recommended.
The only other thing that might be of slight interest is that people who travel to and from Dominica a lot have a strong preference for via Barbados airport rather than via Antigua airport.
DougY:Hi,
I have been to Dominica 3 times, once to hike and twice to dive. For diving I stayed once at Castle comfort and once at Fort Young, both times diving with dive dominica which is the dive shop for castle comfort. I think its a great island, the scenary is amazing and the people very friendly. Dive dominica is a great outfit they have 3 boats of different sizes and if you are diving with them you will generally be on the same boat with the same divers every day. Generally the cruise ship people go on a different boat. If you stay at castle comfort you can dive off their dock its OK there are a few fish and graden eels its not amazing but a good way to spend an hour.
The diving in Dominica is good there are loads of dive sites last trip I did 12 dives at 12 different sites. Frog fish , sea horses, eagle rays, turtles and a lot of fish. On the way back from one of the dives 2 dolphins played around the dive boat and even though it was time out of their day the boat crew stopped the boat and let us watch them for a few minutes until they swam off.
I hope this helps
Doug
I can only repeat what I was told. As a place to stay it seems more refined, secluded, possibly even romantic. They do not have their own dive operation but are right next door to CC or Anchorage. The person I spoke to would happily stay there.pilot fish:How would you rate the Evergreen compared to the Castle Comfort?
Was told that Dive Dominica does not mix crusie ships "divers" with divers at Castle Comfort
pelan-pelan:I can only repeat what I was told. As a place to stay it seems more refined, secluded, possibly even romantic. They do not have their own dive operation but are right next door to CC or Anchorage. The person I spoke to would happily stay there.
He reckoned the comfort level was higher than Anchorage, it was a hotel rather than a dive lodge. But I don't know if it has a pool. It has a web site.
Good news about Dive Dominica. I was having trouble reconciling the good reviews of small numbers professional service with also the fact that they deal with the Cruise ship parties. Now I can see that both can be true.