Ristorante Deneno sounds great as I am Italian, we'll check it out.
Yuengling has always been a favorite of mine. I used to live 30 min from there pottsville pa plant.
Deep Outdoors the Burgers sounds great too! Thanks.
Also looks like Amigos is the best place to rent tanks, and get fills. Both of us have not bought any tanks yet, so we will probably rent two tanks, and dive both each day.
If we decide to camp, then it'll probably be at the devils den since it's only $7 per person compared to $20.40 at Ginnie Springs.
As far as openwater dives go, would you spend more than one day at ginnie springs?
Again, thanks for all the info.
I have camped at both Ginnie and Devils Den... The Den was quite and we were the only camper, enjoyed it and would stay there again.
Ginnie can get awfully crowded with campers and people but we were with friends and enjoyed camping just the same however, I would avoid any holiday weekend and think diving during the week is the best.
Ginnie is good for working on your technique but if your not going into the caves and I doubt you are with the limited amount of dives you have, you might get a bit board after awhile... If memory serves me right, Ginnie is pretty shallow but you can get down to 60 feet if you dive down to the grate at the bottom of the large swimming hole.
The Blue Grotto is good for a dive or two and you can get down to 100' but my favorite was the Devils Den... Smallest of the three and you only go in circles but for beginners, it a good place to practice and work on your technique diving through small passageways made by rocks laying in such a way to give you the feel of tunnels and such... Good for the confidence as well IMHO...
You can get alot of dives in if you want to and its safe for the most part. If you have all of you own gear minus the tank then you could blow out a day at each site and get your fill.
I wish I could validate the restaurants but we were cooking out the whole time we were down there.
One last thing, not to take away from the dive shop but Ginnie rents equipment and tanks. Fills are on the spot for the most part. To be honest, I don't remember if the Grotto or Den rents tanks but it would surprise me if they didn't. Oops, remember to check for availability for camping and reserve a spot...
I lied, one more thought... They have classes at all of these sites, not every day so you may want to make a phone call to each site and see what day they usually have classes (I think they rotate) and adjust your sites to avoid the chaos and dust up's...
Hope this helps some, lee
