For reasons that are entirely unclear to me, my husband has gotten into organizing and leading dive trips. We've done two so far, one to the area in Mexico where we cave dive, and one to the Philippines. He wants to keep doing it, but we just aren't sure where to go next.
For the purposes of leading a group, either a turnkey operation like Atlantis in the Philippines, or an all-inclusive resort with a close tie to a dive op (as we have with the Catalonia and Dive Aventuras) seems best. It's hard to give a group a sense of community if everyone has to scatter to restaurants in the evening, and nobody wants to cook on vacation (except me, apparently). Reasonably easy travel seems a good thing, with good connections and not much travel on very small planes.
We're looking at Fiji, but don't know much about the area. Going back to Puerto Galera is an option. One of our "clients" really likes Grand Cayman, which has excellent accessibility, but as far as I can determine, has nothing resembling an all-inclusive resort.
Looking for suggestions . . .
For the purposes of leading a group, either a turnkey operation like Atlantis in the Philippines, or an all-inclusive resort with a close tie to a dive op (as we have with the Catalonia and Dive Aventuras) seems best. It's hard to give a group a sense of community if everyone has to scatter to restaurants in the evening, and nobody wants to cook on vacation (except me, apparently). Reasonably easy travel seems a good thing, with good connections and not much travel on very small planes.
We're looking at Fiji, but don't know much about the area. Going back to Puerto Galera is an option. One of our "clients" really likes Grand Cayman, which has excellent accessibility, but as far as I can determine, has nothing resembling an all-inclusive resort.
Looking for suggestions . . .