Single divers and room sharing????

[dvrliz1]

Hi All!

Lately we have had requests from "single" divers who are interested in "sharing a room" if it really brings down the cost.

My question is this...

How many of you, if were offered the chance to dive in the Caribbean, and it was a place you enjoyed to go would room with a single diver, you did not know?

What would you want to know about the person?? Would you be willing to just say "room me with whomever".

Ed said (hubby) he did it years ago and it was just fine...


Would love to hear ALL feedback....

Liz

 

[BabyDuck]

i would room with whoever of either gender.

 

[muddiver]

I think that a few SB members did just that at last years Catalina dive trip. I could be wrong.

Personnally I am in the same boat as BabyDuck. But, having had the pleaseure (yea right!) of the experience of 25 guys trying to use one bathroom a'la Marines, I am probably an exception and in the minority.

 

[drbill]

My only concern would be whether she snores or not.

 

[apertyx]

I too am a single diver, and I always tell em to buy ear plugs 'cause I snore! But I'd share a room, most likely.

 

[jupitermermaid]

I've gone on trips before and shared rooms with people of both the same and opposite sex. No problem for me. It's just a room for sleeping, after all.

 

[knotical]

Both on certification weekends and on dive trips, we offer our unaccompanied customers the option to share a room with another same-gender diver, or pay the actual additional cost for an unshared room. Very few (fewer than 5% ?) opt for the additional cost. After all, they’re sharing with divers or future divers, who are usually pretty nice people.

 

[altaskier]

I've gone on trips before and shared rooms with people of both the same and opposite sex. No problem for me. It's just a room for sleeping, after all.

Ditto, on a liveaboard where you don't want to hang out in the tiny cabin anyway.

 

[Ber Rabbit]

I would like to see that as an available option if I were going on a trip as a single diver. It would be a motivator to plan my stay at a resort that offered the option instead of one that didn't even if I ended up choosing a single room. Setting up to attract this sort of niche group shouldn't be difficult.
Ber :lilbunny:

 

[DiverLS]

I have shared. I've made 4 trips where I had to share a cabin/room. Two were fantastic, two were duds. But all were courteous. I've found that women are more willing to share with men but it doesn't go the other way around.

I went on the Galapagos Explorer in 2006, 8 cabins. Well, I got an email about a month before the trip that he had 4 couples, 7 single men and me (yep, I'm female) I said, no problem, I can sleep in my clothes. He said - great - now I have to find a man that's willing to room with you!

I'm still willing to share, even if it is the other gender. What do you guys think? Especially you married guys.