TerraMedicX
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Hey everyone,
Just found the site and I'm already squeezing it for info! I'm planning a dive trip to Belize for mid-March with my girlfriend and another couple who we're friends with. So far from the information I've gotten here and elsewhere, I think we're planning on staying at the Banana Beach Resort and diving with Protech. This is the first real vacation I've ever planned and taken on my own (I spent most of my time since high school in college and working, not taking vacations!) so I'm finding things a bit overwhelming! We're certainly on a bit of a budget, but we would prefer to stay somewhere fairly nice, which is why I'm looking at Banana Beach. I also looked at Ruby's, but figured that after paying for air-transfer from the mainland, for a little less than $200 more per person its probably better to just go with Banana. If anyone else has another suggestion I'm still open.
As for the diving, I've looked at a number of dive centers, including Ecologicdivers and Amigos Del Mar. I'm pretty sure we're gonna dive with Protech (Peter I'll probably be contacting you as soon as my girlfriend gets her time off approved and we're sure we're coming), since I think we're all going to get our Nitrox certs and this seems to be the best place to do it! The other three people I'm going with all need to take their Open Water classes (we'll probably do a referall and do the confined water stuff here in CO), and since they'll all be in class anyway, I thought I'd just do my Advanced OW (I did my open water in Bonair in 1999, but haven't dived since, do you think that's a problem?). After that, I figure we've got about 2 1/2 more days of diving, what do people suggest? I had initially
wanted to do a Blue Hole trip because I thought it would be a lot of fun to see hammerheads, but from what I've read on this fourmn it sounds like they'd be far too deep for me to be diving.
Our intention is for this to be a primarily diving trip, although I wouldn't mind slipping in a day of fly-fishing if possible!
So tell me what all of you with more experience think! Like I said I've never really planned a real vacation myself and I'm not sure I'm not forgetting a lot. My ROUGH numbers are getting me about $1500 per person for 7 nights of lodging and 5 1/2 days of diving (not including food and tips, etc.)
Thanks in advance for all the advice and helping out the new kid!
Nate.
Just found the site and I'm already squeezing it for info! I'm planning a dive trip to Belize for mid-March with my girlfriend and another couple who we're friends with. So far from the information I've gotten here and elsewhere, I think we're planning on staying at the Banana Beach Resort and diving with Protech. This is the first real vacation I've ever planned and taken on my own (I spent most of my time since high school in college and working, not taking vacations!) so I'm finding things a bit overwhelming! We're certainly on a bit of a budget, but we would prefer to stay somewhere fairly nice, which is why I'm looking at Banana Beach. I also looked at Ruby's, but figured that after paying for air-transfer from the mainland, for a little less than $200 more per person its probably better to just go with Banana. If anyone else has another suggestion I'm still open.
As for the diving, I've looked at a number of dive centers, including Ecologicdivers and Amigos Del Mar. I'm pretty sure we're gonna dive with Protech (Peter I'll probably be contacting you as soon as my girlfriend gets her time off approved and we're sure we're coming), since I think we're all going to get our Nitrox certs and this seems to be the best place to do it! The other three people I'm going with all need to take their Open Water classes (we'll probably do a referall and do the confined water stuff here in CO), and since they'll all be in class anyway, I thought I'd just do my Advanced OW (I did my open water in Bonair in 1999, but haven't dived since, do you think that's a problem?). After that, I figure we've got about 2 1/2 more days of diving, what do people suggest? I had initially
wanted to do a Blue Hole trip because I thought it would be a lot of fun to see hammerheads, but from what I've read on this fourmn it sounds like they'd be far too deep for me to be diving.
Our intention is for this to be a primarily diving trip, although I wouldn't mind slipping in a day of fly-fishing if possible!
So tell me what all of you with more experience think! Like I said I've never really planned a real vacation myself and I'm not sure I'm not forgetting a lot. My ROUGH numbers are getting me about $1500 per person for 7 nights of lodging and 5 1/2 days of diving (not including food and tips, etc.)
Thanks in advance for all the advice and helping out the new kid!
Nate.
