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My wife and I are hitting Palau in October, the Peter Hughes Liveaboard. Anyone made this trip recently ?
 
Hello JC,

I cannot speak from personal experience and I know even good places have bad things happen but you might wanna check out the post by Grateful Diver just a few below this one on the main TRAVEL page on this forum here. It seems alot of others had some really bad trouble. You might wanna ask them more about it and maybe you can avoid the same thing.

by Grateful Diver - Has anyone been on the Wind Dancer in the last 2 months? I was on board the last week in June. Of 16 paid passengers, at least 7 of us sent letters of complaint. We got answers that were completely rude and not one appology.
Complaints ranged from: no safty concerns on behalf of the crew, the crew was rude and did not pay any attention to the passengers' safety or service issues, etc. It was the most expensive liveaboard of the 6 I've been on and the absolute worst.


 
Thanks for the info. We are on the Sun Dancer through Dive Quest. Hope that that this vessel is a high spot. Long way to go and a lotta bucks for bad news.
 
Your Welcome, and like I said I don't know from personal experience but it doesn't hurt to ask around like you are. I've also heard good things too so hopefully you will have a great time.

=-)

 
I've been on several dancer fleet boats and you should have a good experience in Palau. The Wind Dancer experience, I would say, is an exception and they should call Peter Hughes directly and talk to him in Florida. I have found their staff to be very helpful and responsive. I will be interested to hear how Palau is after some of the coral bleaching stuff I've read over the past two years.
 
Thanks, Linda, that's encouraging. I'll give you an update when we get back.
Thanks,
John
 
Hey JC. How was Sun Dancer in Palau? Let me have all the details, since i may be looking for work in that area in the future. Dish the dirt and the daisies JC :)
 
For JC, I dove Palau last April from the Sundancer II. It was the best dive trip I have ever had (a once in a lifetime deal for me). Palau tops Fiji, Coco Island and matches the Galapagos in excitements. You may have a bit more rain in October. You will see gray reef sharks and white tips on virtually every dive. Giant clams, large docile cuttlefish and a staggering variety of reef fish. On many of the dives you will have strong currents hence they are mostly drift type dives. You will have to use reef hooks (no problem) to stay in one place in order to view the sharks.

I hope you are doing some photography or video on this trip !

The boat is superb and the meals were excellent (served with wine). I have been on many dive vessels and this was the number one boat.

I would recommend a stop off at Yap to catch the Mantas. Stay at the Manta Ray Bay Hotel and take the PM village tour.

If you are serious travellers you will want to order a copy of the "Micronesia Handbook" by Neil M. Levy (Moon Travel Handbooks) from Amazon.com.

I hope your trip will be as exciting as mine.

The Professor
 
Yes, I have just really to echo what you have said, Professor, on Palau and the Sundancer 11.My wife and I went last November and it was also the best Liveaboard and dive location that we have ever been on. As you say , you can get a bit of a tidal current on the Drop Offs, but, then, that's where all the action is. Blue Corner was ,for us, really something else and the reef hooks just let you hang there and take in the vista. German Channel was a bit of a downer in a way as the corals were completely devastated. Still it was a rollercoaster of a drift and I've never seen such enormous Giant Clams. Mantas, Grey Reef, White tipped sharks, barracuda ,a nd , of course a universe of the smaller stuff.... I could just go on and on.
The Sundancer 11 was all that it was cracked up to be. The crew and the Captain were first class and. Nitrox on tap
Pity is that the Sundancer is going to be based in PNG I understand next year. Looks like a spot of "muck diving" might just be on the cards
 
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