emttim
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So me and my fiancee are looking to go on a 2 week honeymoon somewhere tropical with lots of diving but the problem is there's too many choices so we're trying to narrow it down. Because we want to go 2 weeks, as opposed to 1 week, we do have a cost constraint since we'd like to keep it to 2-3 grand per person. I think that rules out most of "best" locations such as Fiji, Indonesia, etc.
The list of places we were looking at so far is Belize, Cayman islands, Bora Bora and BVI.
As far as what we're looking for in a honeymoon, we want nice and quiet...not thousands of kids running around screaming at the top of their lungs. I'm guessing this is going to mean that we will probably want a dive resort as opposed to a hotel that also has diving. It'd be nice to do stuff outside diving as well but I'm not sure how reasonable that'll be if we do indeed go to a dive resort. Let's see, what else...we already did Roatan recently, went to CoCo View and loved it, but one thing it did point out is that it'd be great if the place we went to didn't have buffet food the entire time so we had a choice of what to eat each night.
As far as diving goes, my fiancee does take photos and video (mostly video), we like boat diving over shore diving because sand blows, we love large critters such as sharks, rays, turtles, etc. and we've both been diving awhile so we're not limited by a site being too advanced or anything like that. My fiancee isn't too big on night diving or wreck diving but I love night diving and wreck diving is ok.
Lastly, as far as accomodations goes, like I said we want nice and quiet so secluded would be great and preferably not like a hundred people around. CCV was great for that since there was like a max of 50 people the resort would hold. We'd love to have over-the-water accomodations, cabana worked great in Roatan so we'd be down with that and as far as amenities go we're not too picky as long as there's a shower stall w/soap, a toilet w/running water and a bed to sleep in. Well, and air conditioning is kind of nice too.
we could care less if the room has a TV, DVD player, etc. but who knows, if we're there for 2 weeks that might come in handy too when we're relaxing.
So anyway, let me know what you guys would recommend...I can provide additional info if ya need it to help narrow down the choices. I really liked the looks of International le Moana in Bora Bora but it doesn't even look like that hotel caters to divers at all despite it being listed in Sport Diver (go figure). Belize also looked really nice and it'd be awesome to dive the Blue Hole, but yeah any input will be appreciated!
The list of places we were looking at so far is Belize, Cayman islands, Bora Bora and BVI.
As far as what we're looking for in a honeymoon, we want nice and quiet...not thousands of kids running around screaming at the top of their lungs. I'm guessing this is going to mean that we will probably want a dive resort as opposed to a hotel that also has diving. It'd be nice to do stuff outside diving as well but I'm not sure how reasonable that'll be if we do indeed go to a dive resort. Let's see, what else...we already did Roatan recently, went to CoCo View and loved it, but one thing it did point out is that it'd be great if the place we went to didn't have buffet food the entire time so we had a choice of what to eat each night.
As far as diving goes, my fiancee does take photos and video (mostly video), we like boat diving over shore diving because sand blows, we love large critters such as sharks, rays, turtles, etc. and we've both been diving awhile so we're not limited by a site being too advanced or anything like that. My fiancee isn't too big on night diving or wreck diving but I love night diving and wreck diving is ok.
Lastly, as far as accomodations goes, like I said we want nice and quiet so secluded would be great and preferably not like a hundred people around. CCV was great for that since there was like a max of 50 people the resort would hold. We'd love to have over-the-water accomodations, cabana worked great in Roatan so we'd be down with that and as far as amenities go we're not too picky as long as there's a shower stall w/soap, a toilet w/running water and a bed to sleep in. Well, and air conditioning is kind of nice too.
we could care less if the room has a TV, DVD player, etc. but who knows, if we're there for 2 weeks that might come in handy too when we're relaxing.So anyway, let me know what you guys would recommend...I can provide additional info if ya need it to help narrow down the choices. I really liked the looks of International le Moana in Bora Bora but it doesn't even look like that hotel caters to divers at all despite it being listed in Sport Diver (go figure). Belize also looked really nice and it'd be awesome to dive the Blue Hole, but yeah any input will be appreciated!
