Hotel near Blue Heron Bridge

[Melissa Flinn]

I read a post about a hotel close to the BHB. Can anyone tell me the name of the hotel that you can shore dive the BHB from please?

 

[Johnoly]

Can anyone tell me the name of the hotel

It's called the "Open Waters Resort "
Read this SB thread for a review

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Trip Report Thread 'Blue Heron Bridge/Open Waters Resort 9/3-9/6 2022'

Sep 28, 2022

Made the drive to BHB for a Labor Day weekend of diving with my life and diving buddy (aka my lovely wife). As a visiting diver, I thought I'd share my thoughts from a non-local perspective. As always, YMMV.

We stayed in the Open Waters Resort just on the east side of the bridge, which has direct access to the east bridge span without needing to go to the park. This is the primary reason to stay at this location - the service and rooms are nothing special, but you can enter the water directly from the property and they have a rinse station and drying racks set up for guest use. They were...

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[Melissa Flinn]

I read a post about a hotel close to the BHB. Can anyone tell me the name of the hotel that you can shore dive the BHB from please?

Thank you so much for replying! It doesn't seem to be open. If It is I don't see a way to book which is very concerning. Maybe they have changed their name?

 

[Pipehorse]

I read a post about a hotel close to the BHB. Can anyone tell me the name of the hotel that you can shore dive the BHB from please?

Hi Melissa,

Actually it is no longer Open Waters Resort. It is now the Blue Heron Bridge Hotel and Dive Club.
The link to their website is here Blue Heron Bridge Dive Club

It does look like they have made improvemets lately. They have a number you can call, does not look like a lot else is going on with regards to the website. There are many small mom and pop places you can stay on Singer Island within a 5 minute drive of the park as well.

If you open google maps you can see where the hotel is in relationship to the bridge. You can make entries for diving the bridge from there. However the incoming tide is from the south and the hotel is north, making it less than ideal for entries if the conventional window of entries one hour before and one hour after high tide is used.

Nevertheless you could still stay there and make easier entries from the park.

 

[Melissa Flinn]

Hi Melissa,

Actually it is no longer Open Waters Resort. It is now the Blue Heron Bridge Hotel and Dive Club.
The link to their website is here Blue Heron Bridge Dive Club

It does look like they have made improvemets lately. They have a number you can call, does not look like a lot else is going on with regards to the website. There are many small mom and pop places you can stay on Singer Island within a 5 minute drive of the park as well.

If you open google maps you can see where the hotel is in relationship to the bridge. You can make entries for diving the bridge from there. However the incoming tide is from the south and the hotel is north, making it less than ideal for entries if the conventional window of entries one hour before and one hour after high tide is used.

Nevertheless you could still stay there and make easier entries from the park.

Ill give them a call! Thanks!

 

[PBcatfish]

Hi Melissa,

Actually it is no longer Open Waters Resort. It is now the Blue Heron Bridge Hotel and Dive Club.
The link to their website is here Blue Heron Bridge Dive Club

It does look like they have made improvemets lately. They have a number you can call, does not look like a lot else is going on with regards to the website. There are many small mom and pop places you can stay on Singer Island within a 5 minute drive of the park as well.

If you open google maps you can see where the hotel is in relationship to the bridge. You can make entries for diving the bridge from there. However the incoming tide is from the south and the hotel is north, making it less than ideal for entries if the conventional window of entries one hour before and one hour after high tide is used.

Nevertheless you could still stay there and make easier entries from the park.

I see that the phone number on the website has a northern NJ area code