The Perfect Diver Friendly Hotel

[Oriskany Divemaster]

As a few of my esteemed Scubaboard members are aware, I have a website that is geared toward helping divers plan their trip to Pensacola to dive the Oriskany. In an attempt to improve upon that service, I'd like to get some feedback on what features you strongly consider when selecting a hotel on a dive trip. (ie, pool, nightlife, rinse tank on site, secured area to store gear, etc...) In other words, if you could design the perfect dive hotel, what would it have?

Thanks.

Eric

 

[Ocean One]

Free rates, free diving, free opposite sex entertainment, free booze, free food, free room service, free parking, free transportation, did I mention free booze!!
Good luck! Just having fun with ya!

 

[RJP]

In other words, if you could design the perfect dive hotel, what would it have?

Twin screws.

 

[citykid]

Okay, I'll chime in. Especially seeing how I'd love to dive the Oriskany. When it comes to accommodations I don't look for 5 star. I'm there to dive, not lay about and be served. Just clean and somewhat comfortable. Distance to the dive shop or docks is a selling point. And if distance is a senior, then offered transportation is nice. Either the dive charter to the hotel. Which leads me to my biggest thing. A combination offer. Hotel + diving in one package. I would think that there would be a rinse tank at the docks after the dive. But I guess I'm taking that for granted if you are asking about that. A secured area would be nice but even still, I've had stuff stolen from those areas. Depending on how many people are around, they aren't that secured. I like to bring my stuff back but again depends on distance to room AND if the hotel would allow that. I remember in the Bahammas that they discouraged that and asked to leave gear outside.
A nice bar to go to afterwards is always a nice thing.

Hope this helps a bit.

 

[scubatexastony]

Comfortable beds, quite rooms, balconies facing the ocean, pool with hot tubs and bar, resturant with breakfast buffet open at daybreak and fast healthy lunches. More resturants for the finer evening dining. On site dive shop or lockers and showers, add rinse tanks and secure storage racks for divers gear.

I bet you could have figured this one out yourself. Shoot, add a casino and night club with live enertainment, reasonably priced drinks.... heck, make the happy hour last all night, every night, no cover charge. Choosing the name is the hard part.

Put our gear in the boat, we'll be there shortly!

tony

 

[plot]

Some type of rinse trough with shallow and deep parts about waste high to properly and completely rinse off all gear after a dive. Big enough where you can lay out all your gear without a problem... Like a giant urinals in football stadiums, only raised to waste height, and with more water and less pee.

 

[harleythedog]

I would have a slightly different view. I usually travel with others who do not dive so I would look for all the amenities in a resort style place, kid friendly, etc. The happier significant others are, the more I get to dive.

 

[Ben_ca]

Rinse area
Secure gear area
Computer access (to upload photos ect)
Easy transport of gear/divers to boat

 

[Scubapat]

a pool that allowed diving, ya know, for people who havent been wet for a while, and want to do a little "stretching out" so to speak before the big dive.

other than that, clean rooms, a tv, and a bar would do just fine

 

[shakeybrainsurgeon]

I'd like a hotel that is to diving what the "ski in -ski out" resorts in Aspen are to skiing.

In the ski hotels, you leave your room, walk down the hall to a secure locker room where someone gets your gear and helps you don it, then you simply ski out through electric doors down the skope... when you're done for the day, you ski down your last run back through the doors and end up in a heated entry-way, where someone takes your equipment and you stroll down the hall to your room.

I envision a hotel built over a reef, with the entry inside an air conditioned luxurious locker room where you keep your gear. You walk down the hall, go to your locker, an attendant helps you with your gear, your stroll down a few steps into the water onto a platform, put on your fins and swim away. At the end of the dive, you simply return to the platform. Like a liveaboard but with rooms like a Marriott and no motion at all. Any one who has done the Disney dive, it would be like that, only over a large reef, not an aquarium.