Dive Review of Pirates Point Resort in
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Pirates Point Resort: "Great atmosphere, but needs a few improvements", Nov, 2015, by Raymond Haddad, QC, CA ( Sr. Reviewer 10 reports with 9 Helpful votes). Report 8654.
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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	There has been many reports written about this dive resort over the last few years and they are fairly accurate. I would like to highlight a few things my wife and I experienced on our recent trip. The daily schedule is: 8 AM breakfast, +/- 9 AM depart by van, no dock at the resort, for a 3 minute ride to the boat. The boat rides to the reefs varies between 15 and 25 minutes. Only two dives are offered per day and a shore entry night dive is offered once per week. Between dives, soft drinks, juice, water, chips, Cheetos, peanut butter and Ritz crackers are available. This is junk food for me, why not offer fruits, cheese and bread instead? You get back to the resort around 2 PM, lunch is served upon arrival, 6:30 PM is happy hour, at 7:30 PM dinner is served and the bar closes at 10PM … basically lights out! The resort has only 10 rooms and 4 of them are waterfront with no AC, only a ceiling fan and some portable fans. The room gets very hot. They say that the returning guests don’t want any AC in these four rooms. The other rooms have AC but you are charged $10.00 per day if you use it. The rooms have no TV (which is fine), the decoration hasn’t changed since the 70’s and no Wi-Fi is available in the rooms. Wi-Fi free of charge is available in the main bar. If you do not drink much or don’t, do not take the all-inclusive package. The all-inclusive package is $100.00 per week more. Beer sells for $6.00 and soft drinks/juice for $2.00 … you do the math! Wine is free with your dinner meal. You eat all your meals as a group which is great! The dive boat can carry 20 divers. The camera rinse bin is small and can hold only about 3 to 5 cameras. You set up your own gear which you leave on the boat except for you wetsuit, dive boots, hoods… all neoprene must by returned back to resort at the end of every day. The dive briefings are very brief and no drawings of the sites are offered. This makes it very hard to dive as a buddy team. That is why they offer guided dives split in groups according to your air consumption. They do a fairly good job, but most of the time you are back near the boat after 30 minutes to complete your dive as a buddy team. I would have preferred spending more time deeper along the walls than 20-40 feet of water under the boat. I think that they do this because when we were there, only three of us were on Nitrox. They charge $14.00 per Nitrox tank. This is the most I have ever paid for Nitrox. The maximum depth for your first dive is 100 feet and 60 feet for your second. Diving on air, this may make sense, but when you dive on Nitrox, this makes no sense. I had hours of bottom time during my second dive. Why not just follow your computer? The water was very clear and the fish life was very good for Caribbean diving.
Websites	Pirates Point Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Bahamas, Belize, Honduras, Australia, Palau, Fiji, Indonesia, Turks & Caicos, Maldives
Closest Airport	Little Cayman Airport	Getting There	You must depart from Grand Cayman ... Saturdays very busy!
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm, no currents
Water Temp	79-82°F / 26-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	70-125 Ft/ 21-38 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	First dive 100 feet max and second 60 feet max. Return to boat with 500 psi
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	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	Rinse tank for cameras very small. Can handle up to 5 cameras. If 10 of the 20 divers had big cameras ... this would be a big issue!

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Dive Review of Pirates Point Resort in Cayman Islands/Little Cayman

Pirates Point Resort: "Great atmosphere, but needs a few improvements", Nov, 2015,

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Dive Review of Pirates Point Resort in
Cayman Islands/Little Cayman