Yes, there is stuff for sale at the shop, which is no doubt why they don't give out post-dive fruit or other snacks as some other dive ops do.
Shore Diving at AKR
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Yes, there is stuff for sale at the shop, which is no doubt why they don't give out post-dive fruit or other snacks as some other dive ops do.
AdivingBel
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My wife really liked that most of the sites were close enough to do SI at the dock (especially nice during "sporty" weather). Better choice of snacks and a bathroom break. Probably made toting snacks on the boat superfluous. I guess they could have given the snacks away at the dock, but why miss a good sales opportunity and as the earlier poster mentioned, ICE CREAM. 
As far as shore diving, I agree with most of the rest of the posters that it's a bit of a token attempt on the part of the resort. If you want to do it, it is there, but it's not a simple process and doesn't seem to fit with the "flow" of the resort unless you're going to forgo a boat dive. Given shore diving is a mainstay of another major island resort, it looks good on paper. Not a dig at AKR. We really liked the resort, just not a shore diving location in our book. IMHO. YMMV.
As far as shore diving, I agree with most of the rest of the posters that it's a bit of a token attempt on the part of the resort. If you want to do it, it is there, but it's not a simple process and doesn't seem to fit with the "flow" of the resort unless you're going to forgo a boat dive. Given shore diving is a mainstay of another major island resort, it looks good on paper. Not a dig at AKR. We really liked the resort, just not a shore diving location in our book. IMHO. YMMV.
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johndo88
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I have to agree; I don't think I'll return to AKR. I was diving DIN and Nitrox. I was told that there would be enough DIN tanks at the shack. There was NOT. The others in my group were able to do the shore dive and I wasn't going to make them wait for me to walk back to the shop and get a tank sent out to the shack. Really disappointed in their Nitrox/DIN set up.
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