I'm about to book a week at the Plaza Bonaire and was hoping I could get some advice.
Does anyone have any specific or general room recommendations? I'm planning on booking a Junior suite ocean view but I would consider bumping that. Has anyone here stayed in one of these rooms recently that they would recommend? I don't really have a preference was to ground floor or higher floor -I understand the ground floor views can be obstructed by shrubbery etc.. but would consider a ground floor if the location was good. As for higher floors is there a floor level above which the views are pretty much guaranteed to be good?
As for diving:
Boat diving:
Do you have a choice on which boats/locations you go to each morning or do they stick you wherever they want you? I've read some reviews that indicate you're not given a choice - they assign you wherever they want you. Is this the case?
Shore diving/Tanks:
Are tanks easy to get/exchange? Can you take more than 2 tanks per diver?
Car rental:
Since the hotel includes airport transfers, I thought we'd only rent a car for 2-3 days. I thought we'd book the 6 1 tank boat dives, dive the house reef for a couple of days and head up to do Karparta, Oil Slick Leap, Ol' Blue.... suggestions for additional dives? Rental agency suggestions with location not far from Plaza and/or pick up/drop off?
Recommendations for meals, offsite, restaurants, fun things to do... (donkeys?)
Thanks very much for any and all comments suggestions
Does anyone have any specific or general room recommendations? I'm planning on booking a Junior suite ocean view but I would consider bumping that. Has anyone here stayed in one of these rooms recently that they would recommend? I don't really have a preference was to ground floor or higher floor -I understand the ground floor views can be obstructed by shrubbery etc.. but would consider a ground floor if the location was good. As for higher floors is there a floor level above which the views are pretty much guaranteed to be good?
As for diving:
Boat diving:
Do you have a choice on which boats/locations you go to each morning or do they stick you wherever they want you? I've read some reviews that indicate you're not given a choice - they assign you wherever they want you. Is this the case?
Shore diving/Tanks:
Are tanks easy to get/exchange? Can you take more than 2 tanks per diver?
Car rental:
Since the hotel includes airport transfers, I thought we'd only rent a car for 2-3 days. I thought we'd book the 6 1 tank boat dives, dive the house reef for a couple of days and head up to do Karparta, Oil Slick Leap, Ol' Blue.... suggestions for additional dives? Rental agency suggestions with location not far from Plaza and/or pick up/drop off?
Recommendations for meals, offsite, restaurants, fun things to do... (donkeys?)
Thanks very much for any and all comments suggestions