Dive Review of Belize Dive Connection/Sun Breeze Hotel in
Belize/Ambergris Caye

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Belize Dive Connection/Sun Breeze Hotel, Aug, 2011, by David Bader, NC, US ( Sr. Contributor 21 reports with 6 Helpful votes). Report 6172.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Value for $$
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Comments	Ambergris Caye reefs are severely damaged from hurricanes and town runoff with little color and large amounts of dead spots. Guides did their best to point out interesting fishlife and honored my wishes that they not interact with the nurse sharks and moreys. Although it is common practice here to roll nurse sharks over and make them catatonic and coax green morey eels out of their holes with treats. On the plus side, there were nurse sharks swimming on almost every dive. Eagle Rays on about half the dives. Lots of green morey eels, turtles, black grouper, and yellow-tail snapper. Blue Hole is better seen from a helicopter than from a dive boat. Certainly not worth a two and a half hour boat trip in 3-5ft seas. What did make the trip worthwhile was the side trip to Half Moon Caye and Aquarium. Those were the best dives of the week. Belize Dive Connection made sure all the dives on my must do list were hit sometime during the week. Best of Ambergris Caye were: Eagle Ray Canyons, Esmeralda, Tackle Box, and Cyprus Gardens. Boat crew were extremely friendly and made a point of interacting with all the divers onboard. They were very open to comments and recommendations about boat procedures. The boat will accommodate over 20 divers but most of the week it was just our group of 10. At the end of each day, the crew washed the regs and BC's and stored them overnight. All we had to worry about was our personal gear. I would have liked to have dived nitrox at least for the deeper morning dives but the analyzer was broken and I won't dive nitrox without analyzing it first. Sun Breeze hotel is very clean and well run. It is right on the water and next to the dive shop. We had the deluxe rooms which were spacious and had good A/C units. The restaurant is one of the best in San Pedro with food prices in the range of $10 for breakfast, $15 for lunch, and $25 for dinner (USD). There are many other restaurants in walking distance of the hotel but many are small and couldn't accommodate a group of 10 without a reservation. Some of my favorites were the Wild Mango, Fidos, and Elvies. For some local cuisine try Hurricanes. This is my second trip to Belize and doubt I will return. The people are very friendly, the weather nice, and the businesses very helpful but the reefs are in too bad of shape to make it a good trip for experienced divers.
Websites	Belize Dive Connection Sun Breeze Hotel
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	All Over
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy	Seas	choppy, no currents
Water Temp	85-86°F / 29-30°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	30-50 Ft/ 9-15 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Generally 60-90ft for a max of 50 minutes.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	1 or 2	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Camera bucket was small and barely fit four point and shoot camera. By the time we got to the dive sites, much of the water had splashed out. No dedicated camera table.

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Dive Review of Belize Dive Connection/Sun Breeze Hotel in Belize/Ambergris Caye

Belize Dive Connection/Sun Breeze Hotel, Aug, 2011,

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Dive Review of Belize Dive Connection/Sun Breeze Hotel in
Belize/Ambergris Caye