bracko
Contributor
Hi, I've had a look around at as many reviews as I can and recently always have trouble getting past travel agent sites and that rather large holiday "advisor" site, so I thought I'd ask up front.
we happen to have a week off (my girlfriend and I) and were wondering how Vanuatu stacks up? the flights are still cheap if we book soon, we're wanting to go near the end of Nov. A few points thought,
1. my partner has some but little interest in diving wrecks and I don't want to find out inside the Coolidge that she suffers from underwater claustrophobia. As competent a diver as she is, I don't want to take her deco diving for the first time there, so Santo is probably out, which leaves Vila or the new island Tanna (??).
2. we've dived some pretty good places between us, Raja, Komodo, Sipadan, GBR (me Palau, Chuuk and Red Sea too among others), if we just potter around in Vila (or somewhere else someone is more than welcome to mention) will we be satisfied?
3. I notice most places only offer two dives a day, we're more a 3 or so dive couple, so is there an opportunity to do night dives, or is this not a thing in Vanuatu?
4. Nitrox?
cheers for any help offered. I have visited the MF site which is always great information but difficult to compare to other places.
p.s. if anyone has any other suggestions I would be more than happy to hear them. The general requirements are, not to far from Sydney, not Thailand/Bali, not complex connections. Not ridiculously expensive.
we happen to have a week off (my girlfriend and I) and were wondering how Vanuatu stacks up? the flights are still cheap if we book soon, we're wanting to go near the end of Nov. A few points thought,
1. my partner has some but little interest in diving wrecks and I don't want to find out inside the Coolidge that she suffers from underwater claustrophobia. As competent a diver as she is, I don't want to take her deco diving for the first time there, so Santo is probably out, which leaves Vila or the new island Tanna (??).
2. we've dived some pretty good places between us, Raja, Komodo, Sipadan, GBR (me Palau, Chuuk and Red Sea too among others), if we just potter around in Vila (or somewhere else someone is more than welcome to mention) will we be satisfied?
3. I notice most places only offer two dives a day, we're more a 3 or so dive couple, so is there an opportunity to do night dives, or is this not a thing in Vanuatu?
4. Nitrox?
cheers for any help offered. I have visited the MF site which is always great information but difficult to compare to other places.
p.s. if anyone has any other suggestions I would be more than happy to hear them. The general requirements are, not to far from Sydney, not Thailand/Bali, not complex connections. Not ridiculously expensive.