Jennefer,
Are you going to rent a car? If you've made the decision to stay at Pia Resort there are a couple of ways to get around. One would be to use the shopping bus. Take it to the Micronesia mall and you can go to Payless Supermarket to buy your food. Nothing really in the Tumon area for supermarkets.
You can also take it to the Guam Premium Outlets. Next shopping center over is a huge food outlet named Cost U less but it's got bulk items. In the same shopping area is Tokyo Mart where you'll find a lot of imported Japanese goods maybe you can use to cook some Chinese with.
Now, here is where you'll run into a problem. Diving. If you can't drive to the dive shop to pick up your tank and weights and then drive to the boat, you'll be stuck. The dive shops will pick you up and take you back to your hotel if you're paying in full. Now, here is a little secret. Join whatever dive club they have and you'll get some free dives out of it and maybe they'll pick you up from your hotel for free. You just got to ask. I have no control and am only suggesting.
I know that in Pia Resort there is a Japanese dive shop and the General manager is a fluent English speaker. You can talk to him about diving with them but like I mentioned, it's a Japanese dive shop and I think two dives is like $90 and three dives is close to $150.
Most dive shops won't do three dives. GTDS does the two morning boat dives and then goes out on a 1:30ish boat for dolphin watching, banana boat riding and snorkelling. That time with the snorkellers is considered a third dive and you'll be lucky if you can get deeper than 10 meters. No dive guide usually. The last time I went on the Dolphin watching boat, there was only one diver. I had to stay with the snorkellers.
This type of trip will take ALL afternoon and is a waste of time unless you want to check out the dolphins too.
I'll let others jump in on this thread to see what else they can suggest.
Chris
Are you going to rent a car? If you've made the decision to stay at Pia Resort there are a couple of ways to get around. One would be to use the shopping bus. Take it to the Micronesia mall and you can go to Payless Supermarket to buy your food. Nothing really in the Tumon area for supermarkets.
You can also take it to the Guam Premium Outlets. Next shopping center over is a huge food outlet named Cost U less but it's got bulk items. In the same shopping area is Tokyo Mart where you'll find a lot of imported Japanese goods maybe you can use to cook some Chinese with.
Now, here is where you'll run into a problem. Diving. If you can't drive to the dive shop to pick up your tank and weights and then drive to the boat, you'll be stuck. The dive shops will pick you up and take you back to your hotel if you're paying in full. Now, here is a little secret. Join whatever dive club they have and you'll get some free dives out of it and maybe they'll pick you up from your hotel for free. You just got to ask. I have no control and am only suggesting.
I know that in Pia Resort there is a Japanese dive shop and the General manager is a fluent English speaker. You can talk to him about diving with them but like I mentioned, it's a Japanese dive shop and I think two dives is like $90 and three dives is close to $150.
Most dive shops won't do three dives. GTDS does the two morning boat dives and then goes out on a 1:30ish boat for dolphin watching, banana boat riding and snorkelling. That time with the snorkellers is considered a third dive and you'll be lucky if you can get deeper than 10 meters. No dive guide usually. The last time I went on the Dolphin watching boat, there was only one diver. I had to stay with the snorkellers.
This type of trip will take ALL afternoon and is a waste of time unless you want to check out the dolphins too.
I'll let others jump in on this thread to see what else they can suggest.
Chris
