Dive Review of
Habitat Curacao in
Curaçao

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Dive Conditions

None.  

The Boat could never quite keep the masks seperated from the cameras rinse
buckets. I know the soap is the big issue for most, my issue was the way my
equipment was being tossed around. Curacao is great for small things, squid
and crustaceans at night.  

Overall Rating

The good: Boat rides, Entry/exit, dives very easy. The shore diving from
the dive shop was extremly easy and a great place for new divers. Reef was
very healthy and quite diverse from one dive site to the next. If you get
the chance to dive "Seldom" (also called lighthouse) do! It's
called seldom, because currents (a rarity in curacao) can be tricky and
dive shops "seldom" dive it. I've never seen a more beautiful
reef. Divemaster were good if you wanted something, otherwise they left you
be i.e. their motto "diving freedom". The food in the resteraunt
was quite tasty, but you might have to wait. Rooms are simple and spacious,
but lots of electrical problems (i.e. no power two of the nights...no AC
OUCH!)
The bad: Dive shop was a smoke house and it wasn't the guests (my lungs
actually hurt). They have a dive orientation at 9:00 but, the first morning
boat goes out at 8:30, thus loosing a morning of diving. If the briefing
were anything of great importance (it took five minutes) I might agree, but
this was uneccessary and a big inconvienience (even when I asked for an
earlier briefing and was snubbed). The shop is no longer called Captain
Dons and it's apparent why, the service and enthusiasm is lacking. The
hotel and Restaurant staff almost went out of their way to ignore you. To
check in I had to wait for five minutes until the two desk people could
finish their chat and then I had to interupt. Location is not the best and
is at least twenty minutes away from Willemstad. The entire week I was
there a truck was parked on the sidewalk to the dive shop and forced me to
walk through the gravel and weeds (o.k. if you have shoes, not so o.k. in
dive boots or bare foot). 
What I wish I had known: I have been to the Captain Dons in Bonaire and I
expected the same. I was dissapointed by the new management and had I
known, I might have spent the extra bucks and gone to Bonaire instead. The
diving is great and very easy, but I think I'll look elsewhere for my next
dive trip.
 

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