rypark1999
Contributor
Hi everyone,
My family (myself: diver w/200+ dives; wife: nondiver; and one yr old daughter) is heading to Maui in November. I've been to Maui before and its my wife's first time. (My last trip to Maui was a dive trip and consisted of all boat dives. Obviously, pre-marriage/baby)
My wife is allowing me 2 days of diving with the proviso that I return by noon so we all have lunch together. So I think I'm limited to one or two tank shore dives off a house reef or a site relatively close by. (I may be able to get her to let me do a couple night dives, but that remains to be seen.) I also think it'll be "faster"/more convenient to be able to just rent my tanks from an on-site operator and either hire a guide for the morning or buddy up with someone on the spot and jump into the water straight away.
With the above restrictions, I've checked shorediving.com and saw that the southwest side of the island (makena/wailea) seems to have more quantity, "better" quality (although beauty is in the eye of the beholder) and closely clustered advanced shoredive sites. (However, I am open to opinions for the northwest side of the island (lahaina to kaanapali).
I have not yet booked our hotel.
So here are my question after all that:
On scubaboard, I found only these hotels with onsite dive shops:
1) Five Star SCUBA at Sheraton Black Rock, Hyatt Regency, Marriott's Ocean Club, Westin Kaanapali, Honua Kai Resort
2) Charlie Dolfun Scuba at Grand Wailea
Am I missing any hotels/resorts with onsite dive shops? (please give me the name of the hotel & dive operator, if possible)
Any opinions, good or bad, on either of these dive operators, or any that others might list?
Any opinions, good or bad, on the above hotels, or any that others might list?
Thanks in advance.
My family (myself: diver w/200+ dives; wife: nondiver; and one yr old daughter) is heading to Maui in November. I've been to Maui before and its my wife's first time. (My last trip to Maui was a dive trip and consisted of all boat dives. Obviously, pre-marriage/baby)
My wife is allowing me 2 days of diving with the proviso that I return by noon so we all have lunch together. So I think I'm limited to one or two tank shore dives off a house reef or a site relatively close by. (I may be able to get her to let me do a couple night dives, but that remains to be seen.) I also think it'll be "faster"/more convenient to be able to just rent my tanks from an on-site operator and either hire a guide for the morning or buddy up with someone on the spot and jump into the water straight away.
With the above restrictions, I've checked shorediving.com and saw that the southwest side of the island (makena/wailea) seems to have more quantity, "better" quality (although beauty is in the eye of the beholder) and closely clustered advanced shoredive sites. (However, I am open to opinions for the northwest side of the island (lahaina to kaanapali).
I have not yet booked our hotel.
So here are my question after all that:
On scubaboard, I found only these hotels with onsite dive shops:
1) Five Star SCUBA at Sheraton Black Rock, Hyatt Regency, Marriott's Ocean Club, Westin Kaanapali, Honua Kai Resort
2) Charlie Dolfun Scuba at Grand Wailea
Am I missing any hotels/resorts with onsite dive shops? (please give me the name of the hotel & dive operator, if possible)
Any opinions, good or bad, on either of these dive operators, or any that others might list?
Any opinions, good or bad, on the above hotels, or any that others might list?
Thanks in advance.