Dive Review of
Fish 'N Fins/Palau Pacific Resort in
Micronesia/Palau

 Caribbean, Costa Rica, Galapagos, Indonesia, Micronesia, PNG, Polynesia, 

Dive Conditions

One hour time limit for most dives.  

No rinse on boats, no good storage. Good handling by staff. Excellent rinse
tank at dock.  

Overall Rating

Second trip to Palau, arranged on short notice when previous destination
messed up by a typhoon--kudos to Trip 'n Tour for their help. PPR an
outstanding resort, with excellent staff and service. Fish 'n Fins a
quality dive operation, with excellent, mostly Palauan divemasters (and
they were better than the European and Japanese divemasters -- they REALLY
know the sites). Did a land-based trip because this was a significant
anniversary and we wanted a nice room ashore, but prefer diving Palau from
a liveaboard. The boat trips through the Rock Islands are nice, but kill
two hours per day, and can be rough if the wind is up or it's raining.
Also, liveaboards let you do the prime sites with a minimum of other
divers; we showed up for Blue Corner one morning to find over a dozen day
boats. Speaking of liveaboards, Navot Bornovski gave us a tour of the brand
new Ocean Hunter II, and she's a beauty! The so-called Compact Road around
Babeldaob is under active construction (we did the complete loop on our
last day -- a very rough ride) and will be finished "soon," and a
new Capital is mostly built at Melekeok up north. Things are going to
change a lot in the near future. Koror a diving ghetto with huge beach
resorts all around Babeldaob? I sure hope not. Try the Carp Restaurant for
mangrove crabs; they're the real thing, only sold when fresh, and
delicious; some of the "fancier" places try to pass off something
like a Dungeness or swimming crab, which was previously frozen.  

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