wb416:
you might pm Dee on this board... she's been there 9 or so times to Roatan.
Rather than share it with all?
All
Dee will do is give you another glowing evaluation of CoCoView. She may have seen most of the other available Roatan AI rooms and dive ops, but for some reason she's stuck on this dreadful resort which is isolated on its own private island on the South side. Nobody there except divers and staff. No drunk locals to meet, no wandering souls "just passing through" to examine your gear. You're stuck for one week with 60 or so divers. Yeesh.
People at CCV smell so badly after a week of dive, dive, dive, that I'm afraid that Dee's judgement is a bit clouded. All they do is eat, sleep, dive. 5 times a day, always a night dive. It's a hard decision to make... should they walk out on the hard sand path right in front of the room and follow the chain out to the wreck sitting in 35fsw? Or should they get their computers on the free wireless internet before going to the bar or hot tub? A veritable nightmare. You come to vacation and not have so many decsions. Shall I dive 5 times today, six? Should I just sleep in? CCV is a nightmare.
Then there's the issue of hard core divers... and you know how they can be. Newbies eyeing them over and engaging them in conversation looking for dive tips and all. A lot of information being passed around "friendly" divers simply trying to subvert the dive instructor "paid advice" process. Shameful.
CCV guests have to wait for a wild Dolphin encounter that occurs pretty regularly at Iron Shore... skipping the opportunity to join Cruise Ship guests and highly interactive kids "interacting" with them in murky pens. Darn- no kids at CCV. I think you have to check them- leaving them at the airport before arrival at the resort. Kinda like Honduran Day Camp- they'll love it.
Know this: CoCoView dive boats have holes in them. True.
Know this, too: If you like CCV, you're gonna hate FIBR.
Then there's all those return visitors. Look at Dee herself. What would cause an advanced photographer to come back 9 times to the same place- over and over?
http://www.cocoviewresort.com/nuts.html
At CCV it could be
the pie.
That's why I have been back for about 52 weeks, 26 times.
The pie. Otherwise,
it sucks.
