The post about AL80s and depth got a lot of comments from people about 80s not being sufficient for a lot of dives that some of us would like to do. As such it got me wondering. I'm still very new and have only dived on travel while in Kona, HI. I dived with two separate shops and they both had AL80s as their rentals. All the shops local to me in the DC area also use AL80s as their rentals.
So my question is, for those that prefer bigger tanks or deeper dives, do you travel with your own tanks or do a lot of shops make provisions for larger tanks for some customers? How do you deal with the vacation dives that are deep?
EDIT: I'm making the assumption that most people dive singles on vacation, even scubaboard folks...
Most of my diving, I drive, so yes I travel with my own tanks.
Vacations where I fly, I will get tanks appropriate for the dive. Sometimes it's 72's, 80's or 100's. On some occasions I'll get doubles and I've been known carry a stage bottle strap and just sling an 80 at times. That's pretty simple to do and a stage strap doesn't take much room to pack.