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Dive Friends Bonaire: "Courtyard Marriott/Dive Friends", Oct, 2018, by Bob Pennal, CA, US ( 1 report). Report 10571.
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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
Snorkeling
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Comments	[In 2016 I attended the SCUBA Show in Long Beach, Ca. The Courtyard Marriott Resort (CM) had recently opened in Bonaire, I spoke with their representative and decided to book a trip for 2018. I had always heard of Bonaire famous shore diving and finally decided to go, also I booked my lodging with Marriott reward points. We flew San Francisco-Houston-Bonaire, United, easy flights. Rented a small SUV (Majority rent little trucks)and headed to CM next to airport. Beautiful resort, new, clean and very friendly staff. The restaurant is very nice, outside and covered. It has a nice swimming pool. Rooms were very nice and clean. In the morning we checked in with the Dive Friends (DF)dive shop and paid for our dive license(*STINAPA)and then headed to a shore based dive shop to be checked out (buoyancy test). We were good to go. CM Dive Friends shop is fully staffed (great people)and full service. We were given lockers and showed how to check out our air tanks. DF has agreements with 6 other air stations around the island for air. Buy a Bonaire dive site book and hit the road. Just stop at the yellow rock "Alice in Wonderland", read dive description and jump in and dive. Hard sole booties are a must, a lot of walking on coral. Dives very easy-advanced, no gloves, not a lot of pelagic, large fish. However the reef's are very healthy and a lot of macro photo moments. We would break and eat lunch, they have some great food trucks, highly recommend Kite City and King Kong. Highly recommend a night dive at the Salt Pier and a Klein Bonaire boat dive. What I enjoyed the most was the time schedule, NONE !! We normally dive resorts with scheduled boat dives in AM, and PM dives later. We slept in, grabbed tanks and went diving when we wanted to. US currency and you drive on right side of the road. We were very lucky because Bonaire was having the Bonaire Regatta (Oct 10-12), dancing, music and plenty of food vendors. Just a great trip !!None]
Websites	Dive Friends Bonaire
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Truk Lagoon, Palau, Fiji, Cayman Islands, Turk and Caicos along with the entire west coast of California
Closest Airport	Fresno FAT	Getting There	San Francisco to Houston, Houston to Bonaire
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	82-86°F / 28-30°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	75-100 Ft/ 23-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Entire trip my wife and I did shore dives,we dived our own profiles. Set up a boat dive with CM Dive Friends for Klein Bonaire, short boat ride nice dive sites, boat limited dives to 60 minutes, divemaster guided however you could dive your own profile within the time limit.[Unspecified
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 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	N/A	Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Only used my GoPro

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