Dive Review of Habitat Curacao Resort in
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Habitat Curacao Resort, Aug, 2010, by Don Jennings, CA, US ( Reviewer 6 reports with 2 Helpful votes). Report 5763.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations	N/A	Food	N/A
Service and Attitude	N/A	Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	We stayed in a house in the same gated community as Habitat Curacao so I cannot comment on hotels in the area. However, I can say the selection and cost of the food at the local grocery stores was comparable to California and restaurants were not expensive and had excellent food. Be warned, getting a rental car is a time-consuming process, one is immediately forced to be on "island time" after landing at the airport! The diving was fantastic. We made shore dives at 3 different locations, but mostly dove the Habitat Curacao house reef since it was a wonderful, easy, convenient dive. You take stairs to enter the water, then swim 50 or so yards over a white sandy bottom to a beautiful wall that begins in 20 feet of water. We saw abundant morays (some large free-swimming green morays), a spotted ray and large numbers of fish. There were 12 of us, 3 never wore wetsuits while the others wore varying thicknesses on some of the dives. We did 3 half-day boat dives which were relatively inexpensive. The best single dive we had was from the boat at the Mushroom Forest. The underwater terrain was almost "other-worldly" and it was teeming with fish and eels. We even found a frog fish! Habitat Curacao is closer to the Mushroom Forest than other dive operators and charges less and can get there more quickly than the other boats. The crew was fantastic, both before we arrived and during our stay. I called the shop and emailed several of the crew directly before we arrived asking about almost everything that we could think of before our arrival, they were more than helpful. During the dives there were guides in the water but you did not have to stay with them. The guides traveled slowly and took pains to show us any life that we came across. In summary; the water was warm and clear, the walls were awesome, there was little or no large sea life but beautiful coral and large schools of tropical fish. Note: there is little or no "night-life" on the island and not much to do if you are not diving.
Websites	Habitat Curacao Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	California Coast, Hawaii (most islands), Cayman Islands, Florida Keys
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	82-84°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	80-120 Ft/ 24-37 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	They had a guide in the water, but you could dive your own profile.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	1 or
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Habitat Curacao Resort in Curaçao

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Dive Review of Habitat Curacao Resort in
Curaçao