Dive Review of
Buddy Dive/Caribbean Club Bonaire in
Bonaire

 Red Sea, Palau, Truk, Lots of Caribbean 

Dive Conditions

All shore diving, no restrictions.  

After first couple of days, they lost the garden hose to fill the camera
bucket.  For the next 8 days they never found it, or filled the camera
bucket.  

Overall Rating

We've been to Bonaire at least 1/2 dozen times.  Every time except the
first visit we have rented a car and strickly shore dived.  Can't write
enough on how nice it is to NOT be on a boat dive schedule.  It's a real
vacation when you can dive as much or as little as you want - whenever you
want.  We've never had problems with crime, but we listen to the local
recommendation on not leaving anything in your car, and leaving it unlocked
with the windows down.  We love Bonaire for the reasons stated above!  

We tried for the first time the Caribbean Club Bonaire, one of the
northern most places to stay - it's right next to Oil Slick (dive site). 
With better management, I would recommend this place.

The good:  Very good breakfasts, and great kitchen/bar staff.  A very nice
pool. Excellent location for northern dive sites (Oil Slick, 1000 Steps,
Karpata...).  Excellent local dive shop representative (Rita). Good
security. A nice Dutch atmosphere.

The bad:  Paid extra for an Ocean view - which means your patio faces the
ocean and you can see (barely) a small bit of water over the top of the
nearby vegetation and buildings.  Their Kitchen are very modest.  Hot
plate, broken toaster, 1/2 fridge.  Was told by manager that house keeping
came ever other day, in 10 days we saw them on the 2nd day, and not again
till the last day.  Asked for them to replace our patio light, and our
light outside the front door - they told me no problem, and never did
replace them.  The wall tile in the bathroom was literally about to fall
onto the floor, it was detached from the wall and barely staying up.  I
showed the manager this, and he told me maintenance would be there tomorrow
- tomorrow never came I suppose.

In general, with a manager who would do what he said he would do, and
follow-up on his own staff (house keeping), I would recommend this place
(keep in mind their were two managers and these problems were only reported
to the one manager).  However as is, I am not recommending this place. 
Bonaire has many nice places to stay, at reasonable rates. 

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