KJHorton

We had a party of 3 on the sailing.  No sickness during the cruise or after returning home.

Thanks for the thorough and positive report.  I hope you are back to 100% soon

We haven't been to Coco Cay in years.  My family always enjoyed the jet ski excursion,  but I dont see it.  Does anyone know if it is still offered?

I am wondering if any of the Bonaire shops or resorts will rent tanks to cruise ship divers to dive on your own?  The places I have looked at seem to offer guided tours, but we prefer to dive on our own.

We have been diving in Bonaire previously when we spent a week at Captain Don's.

Thanks for any information. 

Does anyone know if you can rent tanks from VIP and shore dive on your own ?

For Dive Bus, you can just show up.

In Aruba, I recommend Clive with Dive Aruba.  He has a small 6 pack boat and knows the dive sites inside and out.

In Bonaire, an option is to go to one of the resorts, rent tanks and shore dive.  There is very easy shore diving at Captain Don's.

I would also recommend diving in Curacao.  We always take a taxi to Dive Bus, rent tanks and shore dive.  The entry is just a short walk across the street from their shop.  They have a site map and are happy to give an excellent dive briefing.  I can't speak highly enough about their service.  If you are not comfortable going yourselves, you can also hire a guide to go with you.  Curacao is always one of our favorite and inexpensive cruise dive days.  We also usually have to go back to the ship for a quick change and venture into town for a couple of hours.

Considering a cruise from Sydney to LA and want to see if anyone has information or dive operators for the following islands:

Pago Pago, American Samoa

Papeete, Tahiti

Moorea, French Polynesia

Hilo, Hawaii

Honolulu, Hawaii

Thanks!

Does anyone know the cab fare from the cruise port to Sunset House in Grand Cayman? Hoping to get in a couple of shore dives. Thanks

I will also be on the Caribbean Princess in October, and will be diving in St.Kitts, Curacao, Aruba, and possibly one other port.

In St. Kitts, it will be with Pro Divers St. Kitts. Auston will take us to a ledge to hand feed lion fish to the sharks!

In Curacao, I'm doing sunset and night dives with Caribbean Sea Sports on their house reef.

In Aruba, two easy wreck dives on the Antilla and Pedernales with Red Sail Sports.

All three cater to cruise ship divers and make the most of our limited time on their islands.

 

Ed

Hi, Ed!

So far, we are diving with Clive in Aruba. Doing the Antilla and a reef

In Curacao we are shore diving at Dive Bus

Looking to add a third location, either St. Kitt's or Babados.

Maybe we will see you there!

Jackie

I can strongly recommend Dive St. Kitts (www.divestkitts.com). The one thing I'll say is the port pick-up always seems to be disorganized. They always get you there, but every time it seems a bit mixed up. finitely have their phone number with you. You may have to have a local call them for you.

 

However, other than that, I think you'll find everything to be fantastic. Very friendly people, reasonable prices, great dive sites, a boat that I really like the design of, and diving that is good for all experience levels.

 

Barbados is another favorite place of mine. There's a great wreck dive there, the Stavron Ikita. Peter and Heather at West Side Scuba Centre (www.westsidescuba.com) can get you set up and they also offer port pick-up and return.

 

It sounds like you're set for Aruba. I have a great operator there is you need a recommendation.

 

Curacao: I can only offer the name of one to avoid. I'm booked with Curious2Dive for November, so I'm glad to hear they're as good as they've sounded so far.

 

Antigua; I dove there and it was far more hassle than it was worth. All the way down to English Harbor, for diving that was really nothing special.

 

Harris

Denver, CO

Harris, if you had a choice, would you prefer Barbados or St. Kitts? We are very experienced and frequent divers, if that makes any difference.

We have been shore diving with the Dive Bus in Curacao and plan to spend a relaxing day diving there again.

Thank you

We will be on the Caribbean Princess and will be diving Curacao and Aruba, but want to add at least one more dive day.

I see Dive St. Kitts gets some nice recommendations. How is the diving there?

Are any of the above ports worth diving? Can anyone recommend an operator or a nice place to shore dive?

Thanks

Scuba With Alison will accommodate cruise ship divers. She will wait at the dock until a taxi is able to get you there. She takes no more than eight divers at a time. You can check out her website.

We stayed on Aruba and did an all day tour with ABC about ten years ago. It was an awesome tour and I would highly recommend it.

I remember the Big Red Boat went bankrupt during our first RCL cruise in September 2000. We were in Nassau with one of their ships and all of the passengers were stranded. Glad we decided to try Royal Caribbean because we are still here.