Dive Review of
Parguera Divers/Posada Porlamar/Villa Parguera in
Puerto Rico/Parguera

Costa Rica (Playa Hermosa), Belize - Ambergris Caye, Dominica, N and S
California

Dive Conditions

Stay above DM (not enforced much); back on boat with 500psi (also not
enforced.) Pretty lenient once you proved you knew what you were doing.   

Supplied camera rinse bucket on request. Pace was a little fast on dives,
but that may have been because we didn't make noise about it.

  

Overall Rating

Porlamar Posada is a wannabe luxury hotel, needs to figure out that service
is important. Bar on patio was open, but unstaffed, when staffed, anything
ordered was picked up from restaurant upstairs. Go figure. Everything
involved a wait. The restaurant, however, has great food, but you (again)
have to wait for it.

Villa Parguera is a little more pricey, but a much nicer place to stay.
Beautiful grounds, a somewhat stodgy front desk, but all around relaxed and
friendly once checked in. Restaurant is average, though the service was
pretty good.

Parguera Divers is a great operation; boat is a little small for the
offshore conditions, but not a problem if you don't get seasick. Angel
Rovira and Jose (the DM) do a great job making sure you are happy. Lots of
fun on the boat. 

Unfortunately, we arrived after 2 weeks of heavy rains, so vis was poor,
and fish life was very sparse. Corals seemed to be in pretty good shape,
though. Inverts seemed plentiful.

 

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