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Scuba Forum / Scuba Locations / April 2005Cruise Diving West Caribbean
I am going on a cruise to the Western Caribbean in December. We are going to Belize, Roatan and Cozumel. I wanted to book the diving outside of the crusie ship and did not know how to go about this. Has anyone done this and what are your recomondations for booking the dives. Dave > I am going on a cruise to the Western Caribbean in December. We are going > to Belize, Roatan and Cozumel. I wanted to book the diving outside of the > crusie ship and did not know how to go about this. Has anyone done this and > what are your recomondations for booking the dives. > > Dave Belize is very tough to book outside of the ship. Remember that if you book thru the book - you won't get left. The price difference isn't that much - however the dive shop you use may want to quick dives - make their money, and get you back to the boat. I scheduled my own in Cozumel - remember there is a difference in ship's time and local time. In Cozumel it is usually a long stay with a late departure, you may not have time to do the afternoon time. Booking thru the boat almost ensures a cattle boat. I am cruising in June and I am booking two dives thru the ship (Royal Caribbean) and one scheduling myself in St. Thomas. > Belize is very tough to book outside of the ship. Remember that if you > book thru the book - you won't get left. The price difference isn't > that much - however the dive shop you use may want to quick dives - make > their money, and get you back to the boat. I would concur with that. Book with the ship and you get picked up at the ship. Book on your own and you have to tender to town which is a longer tender than most, and town is not where you want to be if you want to dive. It is not cheap, but neither is getting your own transportation to the next island if you miss the boat. We just returned from a cruise and booked directly with Papa Hoggs in Cozumel. You can contact them directly through their website or by telephone (number on their website). Three of us chartered a boat and had a great time. > I am going on a cruise to the Western Caribbean in December. We are going > to Belize, Roatan and Cozumel. I wanted to book the diving outside of the > crusie ship and did not know how to go about this. Has anyone done this and > what are your recomondations for booking the dives. > > Dave Edward <Edward@nospamatall.com> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :We just returned from a cruise and booked directly with Papa Hoggs in :Cozumel. You can contact them directly through their website or by :telephone (number on their website). Three of us chartered a boat and :had a great time. That's a change. I contacted them once and said we needed 6 divers to charter a boat, or at least 6 divers worth of money. This was 2 or 3 years ago. Dan Bracuk If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. It was just about 6 divers worth of money, $300. We had two beautiful dives of 45-50 minutes each. The last time I dove with them we were on a boat with three new divers, who raced through the reef. We lagged behind and had ok, but much shorter dives. I'm not able to dive very often so it was worth it to me to pay extra. > Edward <Edward@nospamatall.com> pounded away at his keyboard resulting > in: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups > ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- >I am going on a cruise to the Western Caribbean in December. We are going >to Belize, Roatan and Cozumel. I wanted to book the diving outside of the [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >things for you ahead of time. Get a list of the shops you want to use and >have them call them for you. Vic > I am going on a cruise to the Western Caribbean in December. We are going > to Belize, Roatan and Cozumel. I wanted to book the diving outside of the > crusie ship and did not know how to go about this. Has anyone done this and > what are your recomondations for booking the dives. I've done it a fair number of times. You can get yourself hooked up with smaller boats and cheaper prices that way, but the slight risk you run is that if their boat dies or something unforseen happens that doesn't get you back tot he ship on time, that ship's gonna sail without ya. But that's true of any self-booked excursion. It depends on whether your cruise line offers scuba excusions, and if so how much they are and how popular they are. When I've done ship-affiliated SCUBA though, I've never been on ships with pax counts of less than 1800, and I've never been on a certified scuba excusion from teh ship that had more than 8 divers. Princes might be the exception there because they sorta plug their diving stuff pretty hard. Are they still the only cruise line with an on-ship dive shop? -- Todd H. http://www.toddh.net/ >>I am going on a cruise to the Western Caribbean in December. We are going >>to Belize, Roatan and Cozumel. I wanted to book the diving outside of the [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Todd H. > http://www.toddh.net/ I was on RC Explorer a couple of years ago, I think they had one. |
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