Come join Beast and I on our annual trip to CCV. If you want a trip that focuses on diving, this is the place. Two vertical walls, a shipwreck, reefs and grass flats make up the Front Yard of CCV and you havent even set foot on a boat yet. We enjoy this even more when we can include our friends. If you arent a friend now, you will be!
Here are some basic details:
Date: May 14-21, 2005, Sat. to Sat. Two weeks are available, extended to May 28.
Location: CoCo View Resort, Roatan, Honduras
Price: $1487 per person. Price includes all fees and taxes, non-stop round trip airfare from Houston to Roatan. If you need to fly into Houston, youll be responsible for your own flights and the additional cost. We're using Continental this year because of the more friendly dive schedule. Earlier arrival, later departure. First-timers can complete the orientation and dive the afternoon we arrive.
Deposit: $100 per person deposit is required. It is non-refundable unless I can fill your spot. All balances are due Feb. 1st.
Accommodations: We have two Cabanas and one Oceanfronts (A/C) left.
Cabana (12 rooms) Over-water quadruplex with private porch, 1 Twin and 1 Double bed
Oceanfront (9 rooms): Ocean front rooms with air conditioning and private porch or balcony. 6 rooms with 1 Twin and 1 Double, 3 rooms 1 King.
This is an all-inclusive resort. All food and lodging is included. Since Ive included all fees and taxes in the price, the only expenses youll have is a $30 departure and security tax, $2 per day chamber tax is optional, any tabs (dive shop, gift shop, bar, extra activities, etc). We usually take $500, just in case, and bring most of it home.
The price also includes unlimited air, unlimited shore diving available 24/7. There are two 2-tank (4 dives) boat dives a day. Nitrox is available for $6 per tank or you can buy the unlimited package for $100. (break even point is 16 dives)
The Diving:
I think the diving is some of the best Ive ever had. I love the walls and low to no currents. If you are a photographer, you'll be in Heaven! The viz can vary from 80-100+ ft. Of all the dive sites, and there are lots of great ones, I love the photography in the Front Yard. Its inside a protected natural channel between two 100+ foot barrier reef walls. Ive seen everything from huge Manta Rays, to tiny Blennies, large Green Morays to tiny Juv. Drums, Large Basket Stars to small Hermit Crabs, all within walking distance from our bungalow. And the Prince Albert ship wreck is home to so many critters, too many to name. Calvin's Crack, Menagorea, Doc's Place, too many great sites to mention. This will be my 7th trip and I always find things and places I've never seen.
As I mentioned, shore diving is unlimited, you can go anytime you feel like it. CCV treats you as a resonsible adult, and expects you to act like one, so you have alot of freedom to dive as you like. If you want to dive at 2am, just grab a tank, the safety strobe, and go. As long as you follow the set of CCV safety rules, you'll have no problems. In the past, we've done as many as 30-35 dives in the 5 day dive span. Or if you like only a couple of dives a day and spend the rest swinging in a hammock, drinking Monkey LaLa's...you'll get no pressure.
CCV is not a fancy resort. If you need a nightlife other than what you can make yourself, CCV may not be for you. There are off island excursions planned almost every day if you want to do more than diving. I plan to try the Canopy Tour through the jungle tops this next trip. But if you want a place that was built FOR divers BY divers, where diving is the major activity, then CCV just may become your home away from home, too.
Instead of repeating a lot of what has been reported, Ill add links to some of the many reports of CCV trips. They are much better than any Ive ever written! Also be sure to check out my CCV photo albums in my signature.
http://scubaboard.com/t57230.html
http://scubaboard.com/t66281.html
Will we see Orcas next May?
http://scubaboard.com/t62144.html
If you have any questions, please PM me. I know I have probably left out something! At this time we have 5 double occ. spaces left.
