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Dive Review of Isla Marisol Resort in
Belize/Glover's Reef

Isla Marisol Resort: "A Truly Incredible Week of Diving at Glover’s Reef", Feb, 2020,

by Jeanette Hartshorn, MO, US (Contributor Contributor 19 reports with 17 Helpful votes). Report 11459 has 2 Helpful votes.

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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

Accommodations 3 stars Food 5 stars
Service and Attitude 5 stars Environmental Sensitivity 5 stars
Dive Operation 5 stars Shore Diving N/A
Snorkeling N/A
Value for $$ 5 stars
Beginners 5 stars
Advanced 5 stars
Comments This was our second stay at Isla Marisol in Glover’s Reef. Our prior visit was about 2 yrs ago. Then, we thoroughly enjoyed the diving and experiencing a healthy reef system in the Caribbean so we wanted to make a return visit. It seems that Caribbean diving is becoming so degraded that it keeps getter more difficult to find enjoyable diving in the Caribbean.
Isla Marisol sits on a tiny island out about 26 miles from the coast of Dangriga and the boatride takes about 1.5hr to get out there. The resort is very rustic – a couple of steps above camping. They use solar and a generator to provide energy for the resort. Isla Marisol is so peaceful, comfortable, friendly, and the food is delicious. It is off the beaten track, which is what makes it special and the diving still very good. Night skies are incredibly black and bejeweled with so many stars you’d never imagine.
On this second visit to Glover’s, the diving was even better than the first visit! During a week’s diving, we saw schools of what you’d hope to see, including creole wrasse, snappers, grunts, bar jacks; but also schools of porgies and chubs; angels, triggerfish, filefish, trunkfish, boxfish, hamlets; morays, nurse sharks, lobsters, unfortunately quite a few lionfish; even several tuna, barracuda, tiger and nassau groupers; nice corals and sponges; quite a few hawksbill turtles and even several spotted eagle rays. Wow- all that was great to see!
But we also encountered a pod of dolphins, a loggerhead turtle and even a whale shark at different dive sites! Say what?! Yes, really! That all made for some great conversations topside, and just goes to show you that you just never know what you may see.
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Reporter and Travel

Dive Experience 501-1000 dives
Where else diving Bahamas, Florida, Atlantic, Dominica, Saba, St Maarten, St Kitts, Grand Turk, Cayman Islands, Mexico, Indonesia, Maldives, Hawaii, Cocos Island, Galapagos, Belize, Roatan
Closest Airport DGA Dangriga Getting There DFW to BZE to DGA

Dive Conditions

Weather sunny, windy, rainy, cloudy, dry Seas calm
Water Temp 81-°F / 27-°C Wetsuit Thickness 5
Water Visibility 50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M

Dive Policy

Dive own profile no
Enforced diving restrictions no deco; 60-70 min bottom times
Liveaboard? no Nitrox Available? yes

What I Saw

Sharks Lots Mantas None
Dolphins Schools Whale Sharks 1 or 2
Turtles > 2 Whales None
Corals 4 stars Tropical Fish 4 stars
Small Critters 3 stars Large Fish 4 stars
Large Pelagics 5 stars

Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

Subject Matter 4 stars Boat Facilities 1 stars
Overall rating for UWP's 3 stars Shore Facilities 1 stars
UW Photo Comments Unfortunately no set up or rinsing area for UWP; take your system back to your room for rinse and storage
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