First Time Curacao, Shore Diving question

[saywho]

I will be traveling in April to Curacao and staying at the Blue Bay Village. We will have a truck at the time and will be wanting to do shore diving. I have read on a few other websites that just going to the shops on the beach each day for tank rental is the easiest. Is this true? Or should I just get tanks from one shop of choice for the whole stay? Also, I will be renting equipment, so my concern is renting equipment each day from different places. Any input on which direction to go?

Thanks in advance.

 

[tajkd]

Check out my recent trip report - I just came from there in October and I had a similar experience. Definitely rent your gear for he week. You can rent tanks from any shop. Try to plan your dives out because some of the best sites don't have shops on site. Pm me if you need more info.

 

[Dirty-Dog]

You're staying in Willamstad, so your best bet is to get in touch with Mark & Suzy at The Dive Bus - WELCOME for gear, tanks, maps...

 

[gustele]

You are staying at Blue Bay village, so you have the option to rent from the dive shop at that location. Next door is the Vaersenbay where the dive shop Trunkdivers is located. Also there you could rent your equipment and tanks for the whole stay (probably cheaper). Exchanging tanks for new full ones is easy because it is close by. Two of the instructors of Trunkdivers are the authors of the Curacao Diving Guide so you can get some diving advice there too. The other option is to rent from every dive site where you go but I would find that more cumbersome. Renting the equipment for the duration of the trip at one shop and renting the tanks at the location where you are diving is also a good option provided there is a dive shop at the location where you are diving.

Regards

 

[chachita]

If you're staying at Blue Bay, then renting equipment from the dive shop at Blue Bay or from Trunk Divers at Vaarsenbaai/Kokomo Beach is the most convenient - the Dive Bus is located on the other side of Willemstad and with traffic it's quite a trek from where you'll be.

I dived last year with Trunk Divers and on previous trips with the Dive Bus and both are excellent. The Dive Bus does trips to beaches around the island. Small groups, very friendly and a lot of fun, but you're on a schedule, like a dive boat. Trunk Divers have guides that will go out with you alone - so you choose the locations, the schedule, the itinerary - the works, it's your dive. Now that I've done a lot of diving around Curacao it's how I like it best.