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Isla Marisol Resort: "A Truly Incredible Week of Diving at Glover’s Reef", Feb, 2020, by Jeanette Hartshorn, MO, US ( Contributor 19 reports with 17 Helpful votes). Report 11459 has 2 Helpful votes.
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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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Comments	This was our second stay at Isla Marisol in Glover’s Reef. Our prior visit was about 2 yrs ago. Then, we thoroughly enjoyed the diving and experiencing a healthy reef system in the Caribbean so we wanted to make a return visit. It seems that Caribbean diving is becoming so degraded that it keeps getter more difficult to find enjoyable diving in the Caribbean. Isla Marisol sits on a tiny island out about 26 miles from the coast of Dangriga and the boatride takes about 1.5hr to get out there. The resort is very rustic – a couple of steps above camping. They use solar and a generator to provide energy for the resort. Isla Marisol is so peaceful, comfortable, friendly, and the food is delicious. It is off the beaten track, which is what makes it special and the diving still very good. Night skies are incredibly black and bejeweled with so many stars you’d never imagine. On this second visit to Glover’s, the diving was even better than the first visit! During a week’s diving, we saw schools of what you’d hope to see, including creole wrasse, snappers, grunts, bar jacks; but also schools of porgies and chubs; angels, triggerfish, filefish, trunkfish, boxfish, hamlets; morays, nurse sharks, lobsters, unfortunately quite a few lionfish; even several tuna, barracuda, tiger and nassau groupers; nice corals and sponges; quite a few hawksbill turtles and even several spotted eagle rays. Wow- all that was great to see! But we also encountered a pod of dolphins, a loggerhead turtle and even a whale shark at different dive sites! Say what?! Yes, really! That all made for some great conversations topside, and just goes to show you that you just never know what you may see. Read more about and view pictures from this trip at [underwatersplendor.com link] Read about and see pictures from other dive trips at [underwatersplendor.com link]
Websites	Isla Marisol Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Bahamas, Florida, Atlantic, Dominica, Saba, St Maarten, St Kitts, Grand Turk, Cayman Islands, Mexico, Indonesia, Maldives, Hawaii, Cocos Island, Galapagos, Belize, Roatan
Closest Airport	DGA Dangriga	Getting There	DFW to BZE to DGA
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, rainy, cloudy, dry	Seas	calm
Water Temp	81-°F / 27-°C	Wetsuit Thickness	5
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	no deco; 60-70 min bottom times
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	1 or 2
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
UW Photo Comments	Unfortunately no set up or rinsing area for UWP; take your system back to your room for rinse and storage

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Dive Review of Isla Marisol Resort in Belize/Glover's Reef

Isla Marisol Resort: "A Truly Incredible Week of Diving at Glover’s Reef", Feb, 2020,

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Dive Review of Isla Marisol Resort in
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