Turks and Caicos for Christmas

[eotm]

Want to go for 4-5 days (thinking of arriving Wed 12/23 and departing Sun 12/27) and spend 3 of them (12/24, 12/25, 12/26) diving with the goal of doing 6-10 dives. Sounds like Provo is the best place to be for beaches anyway (I don't mind motoring a bit to the dive site) and with my short schedule it may not be worth the flight (and associated decompression period) to get to Grand Turk, but please let me know if that is not the case. Would appreciate recommendations on dive ops and lodging as Scubaboard has not yet steered me wrong. I'm a solo traveler & diver, male in mid 20s, PADI AOW/Nitrox, will bring my equipment. To the extent that there are fun things to do besides dive & beach bum (Christmas dinner?) would appreciate hearing about those as well. A lot of the hotels/resorts appear booked too, so if anyone has had a good experience with alternative accomodation (AirBNB, etc.) that would be helpful (trying to keep lodging at <$300/night).

 

[scubadada]

You may have waited a bit too long to arrange your vacation over Christmas. My son and I have stayed at Ports of Call Resort, inexpensive, across the street from several inexpensive restaurants, next door to Caicos Adventures, excellent land based operator. Unfortunately, they appear sold out for your stay. Sorry, no other personal experience.

 

[diversteve]

There's a smaller casino (Casablanca?) on Provo. Free pickup in the Grace Bay area. Although they did take me to a south side marina on a Friday night also.

We had a pretty good time at Danny Buoys after our liveaboard - it seems like an average bar during the day but they had a band on Friday night and a pretty good crowd. Grace Bay Beach is as nice as they claim.

Most of the dive operators pick you up in at any of the more popular resorts/areas.

Try Turtle Cove - it's slightly west of Grace Bay. I believe one of the dive operators keeps their boats in the marina there. Travelocity is currently showing 1 unit left - at $200/nt. https://www.travelocity.com/The-Big...41130&c=fb5df197-5c7c-492b-8f5b-314e0365a937&

Obviously not on Grace Bay Beach...