Dive Review of
Bora Diving Center/Club Med in
French Polynesia/Bora Bora

Fiji, Hawaii, Cozumel, Saba, Roatan, Bonaire

Dive Conditions

Most of the dive boats in Bora Bora are 24 foot aluminum hull, accomodating
6 to 10 divers.  Not a lot of room for a fresh water rinse tank on board,
but all of the sites are close to any dive shop. Bora Diving Center
provided a fresh water rinse and shower at their shop, which was not more
than 20 minutes away from any dive site.  

Overall Rating

Incredible pelagic diving.  Schools of large lemons and good size black tip
and gray reef sharks.  Lots of mantas and a large school(?) of eagle rays
(> 20).  Hard coral in great shape, especially considering the hurricane
that came through five years ago.  Not much soft coral.  Macro stuff is
there, just not plentiful - white faced pipe fish ,etc.  3 scorpion fish
sitting out on a coral head at night.

Most of the diving is pretty easy, although the seasonal strong south wind
can create some currents.  Bora Diving very accommodating to our schedule,
promptly picking us up at the appointed time at Club Med every day.  And
they were flexible with our dive schedule (didn't have to book every dive
in advance, and could change as needed).  The dive masters all knew the
sites well, and how to find the big stuff.  When 4 other dives did not show
up for a dive night, the crew took only 2 of us out for a private night
dive.

Club Med was nice - not too big, maybe 200 guests total.   Food was served
buffet style, but the serving containers were not very big, so they were
refilled often - never empty, always fresh.  Every meal included food you
could order:  eggs for breakfast, and some sort of meat or fish with lunch
or dinner, including a sushi chef a few times at dinner.  The rest of Bora
Bora is nice, but its as expensive as its every been.  Had to stay
overnight in Papeete on the way there, the Mandarin Hotel had an adequate
room for 4 people, and was the only hotel that we could find that had a
reasonable room rate (<$500) for 4 people.
 

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