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Buddy Dive Resort: "Nice dive vacation", Sep, 2025, by Rick Feinleib , VA, US ( Contributor 16 reports with 8 Helpful votes). Report 13578 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	A few of us traveled to Bonaire in the southern Caribbean for a week of diving, staying at Buddy Dive Resort. Buddy Dive is ... a hotel, with multi-room condos and more traditional studio rooms; 2 restaurants (for pay, outside of breakfast), one of which (Ingredients) is exceptional and worth a meal even if not staying at Buddy Dive; a fully-stocked dive shop; a dive school; a dive boat operation, operating 2 or 3 of their 5 boats for 2-tank dives twice a day, every day; two pools, one with a swim-up bar; a tank-filling center, which must fill over 500 bottles a day, split about half between air and nitrox (we measured ours at 33-34% O2); and a car rental agency, providing pickup trucks to its guests for exploring the island and shore diving. We made 20 dives in total over 6 days of diving. Weather in Sep was warm and mostly sunny, with brief afternoon or overnight rain a few days. I dived in skins most dives, though there were plenty of shorties and 3mm wetsuits in use. We got the Dive & Drive package, which i ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here
Websites	Buddy Dive Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Coz, Palau, Bahamas, LilCayman, GBR, Galapagos, Okinawa, Culebra, San Andres, Belize, Fla Keys, Croatia, Saba
Closest Airport	BON	Getting There	Most major airlines: UA via IAH
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	no currents
Water Temp	29-31°C / 84-88°F	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	20-30 M / 66-98 Ft
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Intro briefing required. Boat dives limited to 50min. Follow DM on boat dives, at your preferred depth. Tanks for shore diving available 6am to 6pm (but can get 2 per diver).
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Some boats are better equipped than others for camera rigs, but boat crew remain helpful. ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here

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Dive Review of Buddy Dive Resort in Bonaire

Buddy Dive Resort: "Nice dive vacation", Sep, 2025,

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Dive Review of Buddy Dive Resort in
Bonaire