fuggler
Contributor
Today's our last day in Bohol. We did 8 dives: all the sites at Balicasag, Kalipayan, Arco, and BBC. We noticed that viz is better above 30 feet here. My favorite dive was at Divers' Heaven in Balicasag. In terms of convenience and proximity to dive sites, I liked Puerto Galera better. It seems like the good sites in Bohol are at least a 30-minute boat ride versus the 5-minute sites in PG. Bohol has more weird critters and PG has more nudibranchs. (Only saw one nudi here in Bohol!) Nonetheless, I enjoyed all our dives here. Would definitely try to come back to Balicasag.
We stayed at Lost Horizon and dived with Bohol Fun Divers. The dive guides were very nice and accommodating, but there's something wrong with the servers at the resort. I speak Tagalog fluently but each time I order, they look at me as if I just spoke some Alien language. Maybe I'll learn bisaya just to see if that'll ease the communication difficulties... It's like that everywhere here and we tried 3 other joints! Anyway, it's a nickel and dime type of place. You want an extra towel/pillow/whatever, pay 30 pesos. Once, I even asked to borrow forks so we could eat our instant ramen on the boat to Balicasag, and the servers had a 5-minute discussion on *** to do. Oh ok, 20 peso deposit, fine, except I'm in my wetsuit, do you expect me to have cash shoved in my pwet? Top that with a busted leaking AC, shower's water pressure equivalent to a dog peeing, hot water almost non-existent, the dive shop manager not willing to let me keep/use my remaining 2 dives towards a future stay, and an incident where a fellow diver waited 20 minutes at the surface for the boat to pick him up... don't wanna stay here again. I'm going to miss diving in the Philippines, for sure, but I'm ready to go home. I'm all dived out.
me
the boyfriend/dive buddy
We stayed at Lost Horizon and dived with Bohol Fun Divers. The dive guides were very nice and accommodating, but there's something wrong with the servers at the resort. I speak Tagalog fluently but each time I order, they look at me as if I just spoke some Alien language. Maybe I'll learn bisaya just to see if that'll ease the communication difficulties... It's like that everywhere here and we tried 3 other joints! Anyway, it's a nickel and dime type of place. You want an extra towel/pillow/whatever, pay 30 pesos. Once, I even asked to borrow forks so we could eat our instant ramen on the boat to Balicasag, and the servers had a 5-minute discussion on *** to do. Oh ok, 20 peso deposit, fine, except I'm in my wetsuit, do you expect me to have cash shoved in my pwet? Top that with a busted leaking AC, shower's water pressure equivalent to a dog peeing, hot water almost non-existent, the dive shop manager not willing to let me keep/use my remaining 2 dives towards a future stay, and an incident where a fellow diver waited 20 minutes at the surface for the boat to pick him up... don't wanna stay here again. I'm going to miss diving in the Philippines, for sure, but I'm ready to go home. I'm all dived out.
me
the boyfriend/dive buddy
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