Went spent a fantastic 8 days in Little Cayman. We stayed at Southern Cross, yep it is more expensive than LCBR but we are worth the splurge.
Resort. Fabulous, very quiet, great staff. Food was very good and more than we could eat. Made to order breakfast, some lunches were buffet others were plated. All dinners plated. You would chose what you wanted later at breakfast; fish, meat or vegan options. Our room much larger than a standard hotel room; day bed, seating area, great deck, very private and outdoor shower 50 ft from ocean. I took a lot of showers.
Diving. Fabulous we consider it the best in the Caribbean. We dove off a 36 ft newton and sat and Sunday the boat consisted of my wife, me and 2 dive masters. Private diving! The dive masters knew us from previous trips so they took off and we all enjoyed finding stuff to show each other. Did pre dive plan and jumped in. Dive masters loved it, no baby sitting and long dives. Monday the “muggles” (our term) showed up. After their 1st dive Monday dive master had a back to basics talk (weights, air management, buoyancy, trim and SPACE) . One muggle stuck to me like a remora. Saw them going up to the boat and I checked my gas, still had 1700. BUT we were all new divers once so we understood. We saw all the regulars. It is interesting how the fish differ between LC and Bonaire. We did see a tiny juvenile puffer fish. It took two magnifying glasses to see it. Tiny! Reefs were in outstanding condition. Turtle mating season saw them every dive…..at least the ones I got to do.
Accident. For the 1st time ever I needed DAN insurance. On my 2nd dive Tuesday the unfortunate happened. Doing my giant stride I lifted my left leg to enter. My right foot slipped and I played pinball with the dive ladder. Slammed my ribs, bounced off my kidneys and somehow hit my leg right above my knee. I went ahead and dove but had to cut it short because of the pain. Iced my back and ribs Wednesday but pain was much worse. Went to see the nurse Thursday (dr there only on wed from 9a to 1p). They wanted me to fly to Brac for X-rays. I ask why. He said if they showed my ribs bruised they would know they weren’t cracked and give me pain pills, if they were cracked they would know they weren’t bruised and give me pain pills. I said just give me pain pills.
I called DAN and their rep explained that it was a boat accident and not covered. Called back and told same thing, they didn’t cover it since I wasn’t diving!!! WTF? Seriously???
Back in the states now. They may cover it but I have to get a statement from dr I saw. So now I will have to see if I can get someone from the resort to print out incident report, get nurse to fill it and and return it to me. Sure would have been easier if I had known that there.
I could not dive anymore. I could not perform my responsibilities as a dive buddy.
We love LC and Southern Cross and will be back. I will start another thread as to how DAN handles this. At this time I am very disappointed with them.
Let me know if you have any questions or need specific info
Bill
Resort. Fabulous, very quiet, great staff. Food was very good and more than we could eat. Made to order breakfast, some lunches were buffet others were plated. All dinners plated. You would chose what you wanted later at breakfast; fish, meat or vegan options. Our room much larger than a standard hotel room; day bed, seating area, great deck, very private and outdoor shower 50 ft from ocean. I took a lot of showers.
Diving. Fabulous we consider it the best in the Caribbean. We dove off a 36 ft newton and sat and Sunday the boat consisted of my wife, me and 2 dive masters. Private diving! The dive masters knew us from previous trips so they took off and we all enjoyed finding stuff to show each other. Did pre dive plan and jumped in. Dive masters loved it, no baby sitting and long dives. Monday the “muggles” (our term) showed up. After their 1st dive Monday dive master had a back to basics talk (weights, air management, buoyancy, trim and SPACE) . One muggle stuck to me like a remora. Saw them going up to the boat and I checked my gas, still had 1700. BUT we were all new divers once so we understood. We saw all the regulars. It is interesting how the fish differ between LC and Bonaire. We did see a tiny juvenile puffer fish. It took two magnifying glasses to see it. Tiny! Reefs were in outstanding condition. Turtle mating season saw them every dive…..at least the ones I got to do.
Accident. For the 1st time ever I needed DAN insurance. On my 2nd dive Tuesday the unfortunate happened. Doing my giant stride I lifted my left leg to enter. My right foot slipped and I played pinball with the dive ladder. Slammed my ribs, bounced off my kidneys and somehow hit my leg right above my knee. I went ahead and dove but had to cut it short because of the pain. Iced my back and ribs Wednesday but pain was much worse. Went to see the nurse Thursday (dr there only on wed from 9a to 1p). They wanted me to fly to Brac for X-rays. I ask why. He said if they showed my ribs bruised they would know they weren’t cracked and give me pain pills, if they were cracked they would know they weren’t bruised and give me pain pills. I said just give me pain pills.
I called DAN and their rep explained that it was a boat accident and not covered. Called back and told same thing, they didn’t cover it since I wasn’t diving!!! WTF? Seriously???
Back in the states now. They may cover it but I have to get a statement from dr I saw. So now I will have to see if I can get someone from the resort to print out incident report, get nurse to fill it and and return it to me. Sure would have been easier if I had known that there.
I could not dive anymore. I could not perform my responsibilities as a dive buddy.
We love LC and Southern Cross and will be back. I will start another thread as to how DAN handles this. At this time I am very disappointed with them.
Let me know if you have any questions or need specific info
Bill
