Here's our feedback to Dos Palmas Verde Island (DPV)
1. The staff are courteous, helpful and accommodating. They never failed to greet us and ask how our stay is at the resort. We appreciate their efforts to anticipate our needs as well as try to provide our every request. The dive masters at the dive shop are competent, knowledgeable and well experienced.
2. Our room is immaculately clean. We love the bed and linen as well as the bathroom amenities.
3. The view from our room (C3) is excellent, overlooking the pool as well as the sea and the island across. It was a privilege to wake up each morning and open up the veranda doors and just enjoy the quiet morning breeze.
4. Among the activities suggested, we truly enjoyed the community walk. It was an opportunity meet the island people and appreciate their island way of life. It was also a chance to express our thanks to the island people for letting us share their beautiful island.
5. By and large, the food is excellent and generous. The appetizers and desserts were particularly CREATIVE and ORIGINAL. We specially liked the grilled tomato and mozzarella with tiny fried morsels of the cheese, as well as the sushi. The pakaskas dessert was very tasty.
Scuba diving
1. The San Agapito dive spot is really spectacular wall dive. ItÃÔ amazing to see the bountiful species that that place offers. Joel, your dive master, was exceptionally experienced and had good reads of the diving situations. In the two dives that I had with him in San Agapito, he never placed us in situations where we needed to make drastic corrections in our dive due to changing currents and during rounding corners where current was strong. With his familiarity of the site, he gauge these conditions well, checked the actual situation and signaled either a turnaround or a change of course before it became uncomfortable to the divers.
2. Access to San Agapito with your speed boat was a breeze. Your speed boat crew was helpful, as expected. Jerry, your head dive master, was professional and was enthusiastic about the resort's research bi-valve project. In our night dive off your pier when he and his buddy, when Joel and I brought by the current unexpectedly met, he and his buddy enthusiastically led and pointed to us a Flamboyant Cuttlefish. Nice!
