I haven't visited ScubaBoard for a while, but I have been doing some searches here.
We (with wife and two early-20's kids, all divers) are planning our fourth annual scuba trip to Grand Cayman.
Specific question is, how and when were the Ocean View Rooms and Apartments at Sunset House renovated? Web site says they were "recently renovated," but that phrase may have been there for a decade already.
We're at the age when physical accommodation comforts do make a difference, though we still want to stay at a dive resort. We stayed at Sunset House in 2009, so we know what the diving is like. But the rooms, as a lot of people have observed, were definitely showing their age. Worst thing was that the A/C in the room wasn't working when we checked in -- they had to get a repairman in late in the evening to clean out the compressor on the roof, and then it was fine. But that might have been indicative of the maintenance situation overall.
The last two years we've stayed at Cobalt Coast. Accommodations were (we think) much nicer, but the location on the northeast coast is actually a negative for us... North Wall dive sites are spectacular; but wife gets monumentally seasick, and the calmer the water, the better... both for boat diving, and for shore diving.
So that, plus the fact that we haven't done the Kittiwake yet and Sunset Divers seem to have always had much better deals on that, makes us want to go back to Sunset House again. Plus our daughter wants to take an underwater photography course from Cathy Church.
Plus, no matter now long-in-the-tooth the rooms were, the beds at Sunset House were indeed comfortable.
A negative is, by my calculation, an Apartment with adjoining Ocean View Room at Sunset House would be about $500 more expensive for the week than a two-bedroom suite at Cobalt Coast.
So... what shape are the rooms in now at Sunset House?
