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Isla Marisol Resort: "Not enough variety in dive sites visited", Mar, 2015, by Catherine R. Mack, DC, US ( Reviewer 5 reports with 1 Helpful vote). Report 8272.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
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Comments	Just the two of us rented one of the two houses which have crashing surf all the time. Heavenly. House is very, very basic but has a terrific deck and comfortable beds. Very clean although hot water is tricky to get working. Short walk to meals and to diving. Meals were basic, local food but really well prepared and delicious. There is a bar on the dock but usually we bought something there to drink and took it to our deck (with the crashing surf). Dive staff and boat drivers are very experienced and friendly. Only complaint is that we kept diving the same sites day after day after day. It could have been because of rough seas or maybe because there were so few divers there. At times there were only two couples on the dive boat (and we were there for ten days) so I think that travelling (and using gasoline) might have been an issue. I have had much better diving and more diverse sites when staying at Turneffe Reef Resort, which we have done several times. We wanted something different and closer to some better dive sites and we got something different, but not in terms of the diversity of dive sites.
Websites	Isla Marisol Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	everywhere in Caribbean including Cuba and numerous times to Belize/Also Fiji, Hawaii and Australia's GBR
Closest Airport	Placencia	Getting There	DC to Miami (over night in Miami) AM flight to Belize City/quick connection to Placencia then a wait for everyone else coming on a later plane
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy	Seas	calm, currents
Water Temp	80-95°F / 27-35°C	Wetsuit Thickness	2
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	none except we kept going to the same dive sites, all of them very near the island itself. we only went to another island area once...out of nine days of diving.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	no
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters	N/A	Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

Subscriber's Comments

By report author: Catherine R. Mack in DC, US at Jun 27, 2015 15:12 EST

I meant Dandriga airport, not Placencia. SOrry about that mistake!

By report author: Catherine R. Mack in DC, US at Jun 27, 2015 15:12 EST

I meant Dandriga airport, not Placencia. SOrry about that mistake!

By report author: Catherine R. Mack in DC, US at Jun 27, 2015 15:12 EST

I meant Dandriga airport, not Placencia. SOrry about that mistake!

By Jill Rain in WA, US at Jun 28, 2015 11:53 EST

How were the no-see-ums? We were there a few years ago and that was our only problem, especially at the dive dock.

By report author: Catherine R. Mack in DC, US at Jun 28, 2015 13:04 EST

no problem with no-see-ums. maybe one of the beds had some bugs (i cannot remember...but i moved to another bed one night when i could not sleep and i sort of remember having lots of bites) but the bugs were not a problem for us.

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