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Thank you. We’d be fine with shore diving the entire time, unless there’s a dive site only accessible by boat that is a “must see”? In Bonaire we stick to shore diving. Save the boat diving for destinations where shore diving isn’t an option.
We stay and dive in and around Westpunt (we’ll regularly make it as far east/south as Porto Marie). We almost exclusively shore dive, but I make a point of one boat trip to Watamula. The large star coral formations are special. It’s usually a drift dive and if I can get the boat to do two drops there I consider it a win.
Who do you rent car from?
We rented from D&D Car Rentals last week. Homepage Had a nail in the tire after the first day & they were excellent about bringing another vehicle to us (Coral Estates). Only word of ‘caution’ is both cars (SUVs) we rented had key FOBs so we always had to find a place for the key when underwater. Some shore dive locations have lockers but not all. Next trip we plan to inquire whether they have older rentals with standard keys.
We stayed at Coral Estates Luxury Resort for 8 days last week (9/25-10/2). Our room had a mini fridge, microwave, toaster & coffee pot so no real ‘cooking’ took place (only oatmeal for breakfast). They do have 3 restaurants on the property, we’re vegetarians which they don’t cater too (one restaurant had one vegetarian dish and we could have had a veggie pizza from the other - but chose to find other options on the island). Happy to answer questions.
