Come Join Us on The 10th Annual Trip to Coco View
Location: Roatan, Honduras - Coco View Resort - CoCo View Resort
Check out this short video of the island activities... http://www.cocoviewresort.com/activities.html#shark
Dates:
Week 1: May 26 - June 2, 2007, Sat. to Sat.
Week 2: June 2, - June 9 2007, Sat. to Sat.
Two weeks are available, extended to June 9. Let us know which week suits your schedule and join in on the fun. Of course you are more than welcome to stay the full two weeks!
This trip will be the 10th Annual trip to Coco View and we wanted to do something special. So for this trip, Zendiving.com and I have booked the whole resort and plan to fill the whole resort with our friends!
If you want a trip that focuses on diving, this is the place. Two vertical walls, a shipwreck, reefs and grass flats make up the Front Yard of CCV and you haven't even set foot on a boat yet. We enjoy this even more when we can include our friends. If you aren't a friend now, you will be!
Coco View's Front Yard
Walk in - Walk out. How easy can it get?
CoCo View's shore-diving is so good (and so effortless!) many divers miss the boat on purpose!
An incredible array of marine life is only a few fin kicks from our Clubhouse along the renowned CoCo View Wall, Newman's Wall, and at the easily accessible wreck of the Prince Albert. All this and you don't even have to step on a boat! The Front Yard is open for your diving pleasure 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week. Dive when you want, air is always available at our 150 bottle tank storage rack.
Many divers love the "Front Yard" for the great night diving opportunities and the "creatures of the dark" that make it their home.
If you have non-divers, it's a Haven for Snorkellers! ("Fish and lobsters and rays! oh my!
Swim a little, tan a little, swing in the hammock, and snorkel whenever you want! You will always see something new and beautiful playing out in the Front Yard. Eagle Rays are very common sightings!
FULL DETAILS BELOW
We have reserved the entire Coco View Resort!
The Diving:
I think the diving is some of the best I've ever had. I love the walls and low to no currents. The dive schedule is very easy. The morning boats leave at 8:30am. You'll do one reef dive, return to the boat for your surface interval and the second dive is a drop off on one of the two walls in front of the resort. You make your way home at your leisure. Lunch is served from noon to 1:30pm. The afternoon boat leaves at 2pm with the same reef dive and drop off dive schedule as was in the morning schedule. However if everyone on the boat agrees the DM will frequently let you do 2 reef dives in the mornings. It depends on several things and is always at the DM's discretion. Of course there is always night dives!
If you are a photographer, you'll be in Heaven! The viz can vary from 80-100+ ft. Of all the dive sites, and there are lots of great ones, I love the photography in the Front Yard. It's inside a protected natural channel between two 100+ foot barrier reef walls. I've seen everything from huge Manta Rays, to tiny Blennies, large Green Morays to tiny Juv. Drums, Large Basket Stars to small Hermit Crabs, all within walking/wading distance from our bungalow. And the Prince Albert and Mr. Bud ship wrecks are home to so many critters, too many to name. Calvin's Crack, Menagorea, Doc's Place...too many great sites to mention. This will be my 10th trip and I always find things and places I've never seen. My photo albums can be found at Dee's Photos from this years May trip will be posted in a few days.
As I mentioned, shore diving is unlimited, you can go anytime you feel like it up until 11pm. CCV treats you as a responsible adult, and expects you to act like one, so you have a lot of freedom to dive as you like. As long as you follow the set of CCV safety rules, you'll have no problems. In the past, we've done as many as 30-35 dives in the 5 day dive span. Or if you like only a couple of dives a day and spend the rest swinging in a hammock, drinking Monkey LaLa's...you'll get no pressure.
Accommodations:
Bungalow (4 rooms): Over the water duplex separate from the other rooms for a little more privacy. Rooms A and C have one King bed. Rooms B and D have two Double beds.
Cabana (12 rooms): Over-water quadruplex with private porch, 2 Double beds.
Oceanfront (9 rooms): Ocean front rooms with private porch or balcony. 6 rooms with 1 Twin and 1 Double, 3 rooms with 1 King.
TSR Room (1 room): The Secret Room (The original room of Coco View Resort.)
All rooms have coffee pots and small refridgerators.
Pricing
This is an all-inclusive resort. All food and lodging is included.
Bungalows and Cabanas:
1 Week DOUBLE occupancy: 8 days / 7 nights
Diver: $1126.00 per person
Non-Diver: $1026.00 per person
2 weeks - $2,110.00
Ocean View Rooms & TSR Room:
1 Week DOUBLE occupancy: 8 days / 7 nights
Diver: $1068.00 per person
Non-Diver: $968.00 per person
2 weeks - $1,995.00
(NOTE: If you want a room to yourself, there is an additional single supplement fee of $350 for the cabanas and $150 for the ocean view rooms. If you are by yourself but are willing to accept a room mate, we will do our best to match you with another single. CCV also has a 'share' program which means if we can't find a roomie for you, they will assign someone who needs a roomie. If no one needs the other half of your room, you can stay by yourself without the extra single supplement.)
Package Includes
* All FEES and TAXES (exception is $32 departure and security tax, $2 per day chamber tax is optional but highly recommended)
* Ocean front accommodations
* Welcome cocktail
* Complimentary airport transfers
* 3 Full meals daily includes: breakfasts to order, full lunch, dinner buffets with salad bar and choice of entrée
* 1 Bar-B-Que on private cay (weather permitting)
* 1 Picnic on private cay (weather permitting)
* Unlimited beach diving includes: barrier reef wall diving, wreck of the Prince Albert, night diving
* Unlimited air
* 2 boat dive trips daily including 1 tank at selected site and optional drop-off wall dive (up to 4 boat tanks daily)
* 1 boat night dive per week
* Tanks, belts, and weights
* Free use of ocean kayaks and non-motorized beach equipment, exercise equipment as well as ample opportunities sight-seeing, picnicking, and day or night time excursions.
Airfare The non-stop round trip airfare from Houston to Roatan will be added as soon as it comes available. In the past few years it has been around $500-600 plus taxes, we'll just have to wait and see. If you need to fly into Houston, we can arrange the additional flights and that cost will be added, or you can get your own airfare all the way. We're hoping to use Continental again because of the friendlier schedule. Earlier arrival, later departure gives us time to settle in the first day and not is such a rush to leave the last.
Diving with Nitrox
Nitrox is available, as well as Nitrox Certifications. Tanks are $6.00 per tank (NOT per day) or $100.00 per person for week long unlimited use (shore diving included)
DISCOUNTS
1. If paid in FULL by August 26, 06 <$50.00> OR if paid in FULL by November 26, 2006 <$25.00>.
2. NOTE: Prices reflect a cash discount. If paying via Credit Card using the Zendiving Virtual Terminal (the 3% Surcharge is figured for you) or if by PayPal, please add 3% processing fee.
Terms and Conditions of Payment
Deposit:
- 50% refund with cancellation 90 days or more prior to departure date
- Non-Refundable within the 90 days of the trip unless we can fill the entire trip
. Full payment due 105 days (Feb 10, 07) prior to departure date.
. 50% refund with cancellation 30 days or more prior to departure date.
. Non-Refundable with cancellation within 30 days of departure date.
(less the surcharge fee if you paid with credit card or PayPal)
PAYMENT INFORMATION
Payments can be made now in several different ways. Click Here to find out how.
HOW TO GO ABOUT JOINING US
1. Post in this thread that you would like to go, PM me for further details and/or go to Zendiving.com for full details.
2. Once your deposit is received, you will be moved to the "Who's going!" list.
3. Once your name is on the list, please keep handy the scheduled payment dates, found on the complete listing on Zendiver.com (I ran out of space here!)
NOTE:
CCV is not a fancy resort. If you need a nightlife other than what you can make yourself, CCV may not be for you. There are off island excursions planned and available if you want to do more than diving. Some of these are: Dolphin snorkel/diving, Shark dive, seaplane aerial tour, eco tours, weekly shopping excursions and horseback riding. If you want to leave CCV in the evening for dinner in one of the local restaurants, transportation can be arranged through the office. But if you want a place that was built FOR divers BY divers, where diving is the major activity, then CCV just may become your home away from home, too.
If you have any questions, please PM or EMAIL either Dee or Zendiver. I know we have probably left out something!
Come join us...you know you want to!
Location: Roatan, Honduras - Coco View Resort - CoCo View Resort
Check out this short video of the island activities... http://www.cocoviewresort.com/activities.html#shark
Dates:
Week 1: May 26 - June 2, 2007, Sat. to Sat.
Week 2: June 2, - June 9 2007, Sat. to Sat.
Two weeks are available, extended to June 9. Let us know which week suits your schedule and join in on the fun. Of course you are more than welcome to stay the full two weeks!
This trip will be the 10th Annual trip to Coco View and we wanted to do something special. So for this trip, Zendiving.com and I have booked the whole resort and plan to fill the whole resort with our friends!
If you want a trip that focuses on diving, this is the place. Two vertical walls, a shipwreck, reefs and grass flats make up the Front Yard of CCV and you haven't even set foot on a boat yet. We enjoy this even more when we can include our friends. If you aren't a friend now, you will be!
Coco View's Front Yard
Walk in - Walk out. How easy can it get?
CoCo View's shore-diving is so good (and so effortless!) many divers miss the boat on purpose!
An incredible array of marine life is only a few fin kicks from our Clubhouse along the renowned CoCo View Wall, Newman's Wall, and at the easily accessible wreck of the Prince Albert. All this and you don't even have to step on a boat! The Front Yard is open for your diving pleasure 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week. Dive when you want, air is always available at our 150 bottle tank storage rack.
Many divers love the "Front Yard" for the great night diving opportunities and the "creatures of the dark" that make it their home.
If you have non-divers, it's a Haven for Snorkellers! ("Fish and lobsters and rays! oh my!
Swim a little, tan a little, swing in the hammock, and snorkel whenever you want! You will always see something new and beautiful playing out in the Front Yard. Eagle Rays are very common sightings!FULL DETAILS BELOW
We have reserved the entire Coco View Resort!
The Diving:
I think the diving is some of the best I've ever had. I love the walls and low to no currents. The dive schedule is very easy. The morning boats leave at 8:30am. You'll do one reef dive, return to the boat for your surface interval and the second dive is a drop off on one of the two walls in front of the resort. You make your way home at your leisure. Lunch is served from noon to 1:30pm. The afternoon boat leaves at 2pm with the same reef dive and drop off dive schedule as was in the morning schedule. However if everyone on the boat agrees the DM will frequently let you do 2 reef dives in the mornings. It depends on several things and is always at the DM's discretion. Of course there is always night dives!
If you are a photographer, you'll be in Heaven! The viz can vary from 80-100+ ft. Of all the dive sites, and there are lots of great ones, I love the photography in the Front Yard. It's inside a protected natural channel between two 100+ foot barrier reef walls. I've seen everything from huge Manta Rays, to tiny Blennies, large Green Morays to tiny Juv. Drums, Large Basket Stars to small Hermit Crabs, all within walking/wading distance from our bungalow. And the Prince Albert and Mr. Bud ship wrecks are home to so many critters, too many to name. Calvin's Crack, Menagorea, Doc's Place...too many great sites to mention. This will be my 10th trip and I always find things and places I've never seen. My photo albums can be found at Dee's Photos from this years May trip will be posted in a few days.
As I mentioned, shore diving is unlimited, you can go anytime you feel like it up until 11pm. CCV treats you as a responsible adult, and expects you to act like one, so you have a lot of freedom to dive as you like. As long as you follow the set of CCV safety rules, you'll have no problems. In the past, we've done as many as 30-35 dives in the 5 day dive span. Or if you like only a couple of dives a day and spend the rest swinging in a hammock, drinking Monkey LaLa's...you'll get no pressure.
Accommodations:
Bungalow (4 rooms): Over the water duplex separate from the other rooms for a little more privacy. Rooms A and C have one King bed. Rooms B and D have two Double beds.
Cabana (12 rooms): Over-water quadruplex with private porch, 2 Double beds.
Oceanfront (9 rooms): Ocean front rooms with private porch or balcony. 6 rooms with 1 Twin and 1 Double, 3 rooms with 1 King.
TSR Room (1 room): The Secret Room (The original room of Coco View Resort.)
All rooms have coffee pots and small refridgerators.
Pricing
This is an all-inclusive resort. All food and lodging is included.
Bungalows and Cabanas:
1 Week DOUBLE occupancy: 8 days / 7 nights
Diver: $1126.00 per person
Non-Diver: $1026.00 per person
2 weeks - $2,110.00
Ocean View Rooms & TSR Room:
1 Week DOUBLE occupancy: 8 days / 7 nights
Diver: $1068.00 per person
Non-Diver: $968.00 per person
2 weeks - $1,995.00
(NOTE: If you want a room to yourself, there is an additional single supplement fee of $350 for the cabanas and $150 for the ocean view rooms. If you are by yourself but are willing to accept a room mate, we will do our best to match you with another single. CCV also has a 'share' program which means if we can't find a roomie for you, they will assign someone who needs a roomie. If no one needs the other half of your room, you can stay by yourself without the extra single supplement.)
Package Includes
* All FEES and TAXES (exception is $32 departure and security tax, $2 per day chamber tax is optional but highly recommended)
* Ocean front accommodations
* Welcome cocktail
* Complimentary airport transfers
* 3 Full meals daily includes: breakfasts to order, full lunch, dinner buffets with salad bar and choice of entrée
* 1 Bar-B-Que on private cay (weather permitting)
* 1 Picnic on private cay (weather permitting)
* Unlimited beach diving includes: barrier reef wall diving, wreck of the Prince Albert, night diving
* Unlimited air
* 2 boat dive trips daily including 1 tank at selected site and optional drop-off wall dive (up to 4 boat tanks daily)
* 1 boat night dive per week
* Tanks, belts, and weights
* Free use of ocean kayaks and non-motorized beach equipment, exercise equipment as well as ample opportunities sight-seeing, picnicking, and day or night time excursions.
Airfare The non-stop round trip airfare from Houston to Roatan will be added as soon as it comes available. In the past few years it has been around $500-600 plus taxes, we'll just have to wait and see. If you need to fly into Houston, we can arrange the additional flights and that cost will be added, or you can get your own airfare all the way. We're hoping to use Continental again because of the friendlier schedule. Earlier arrival, later departure gives us time to settle in the first day and not is such a rush to leave the last.
Diving with Nitrox
Nitrox is available, as well as Nitrox Certifications. Tanks are $6.00 per tank (NOT per day) or $100.00 per person for week long unlimited use (shore diving included)
DISCOUNTS
1. If paid in FULL by August 26, 06 <$50.00> OR if paid in FULL by November 26, 2006 <$25.00>.
2. NOTE: Prices reflect a cash discount. If paying via Credit Card using the Zendiving Virtual Terminal (the 3% Surcharge is figured for you) or if by PayPal, please add 3% processing fee.
Terms and Conditions of Payment
Deposit:
- 50% refund with cancellation 90 days or more prior to departure date
- Non-Refundable within the 90 days of the trip unless we can fill the entire trip
. Full payment due 105 days (Feb 10, 07) prior to departure date.
. 50% refund with cancellation 30 days or more prior to departure date.
. Non-Refundable with cancellation within 30 days of departure date.
(less the surcharge fee if you paid with credit card or PayPal)
PAYMENT INFORMATION
Payments can be made now in several different ways. Click Here to find out how.
HOW TO GO ABOUT JOINING US
1. Post in this thread that you would like to go, PM me for further details and/or go to Zendiving.com for full details.
2. Once your deposit is received, you will be moved to the "Who's going!" list.
3. Once your name is on the list, please keep handy the scheduled payment dates, found on the complete listing on Zendiver.com (I ran out of space here!)
NOTE:
CCV is not a fancy resort. If you need a nightlife other than what you can make yourself, CCV may not be for you. There are off island excursions planned and available if you want to do more than diving. Some of these are: Dolphin snorkel/diving, Shark dive, seaplane aerial tour, eco tours, weekly shopping excursions and horseback riding. If you want to leave CCV in the evening for dinner in one of the local restaurants, transportation can be arranged through the office. But if you want a place that was built FOR divers BY divers, where diving is the major activity, then CCV just may become your home away from home, too.
If you have any questions, please PM or EMAIL either Dee or Zendiver. I know we have probably left out something!
Come join us...you know you want to!
