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Plaza Resort Bonaire: "A nice week in Bonaire", Sep, 2024, by William G. Schulz, DC, US ( 2 reports). Report 13129.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	The Plaza Resort is undergoing some multi-year renovations. The pool area and dining room are quite nice. There is a new lobby that is still roped-off, but it looks spectacular—out of place, almost with the rest of the resort. I have learned to keep expectations in check in the Caribbean, but the owners might have spent a little more money/time on the guest rooms. Still, I and the rest of the people in my group came to dive so little inconveniences with the room were just that. The dive operation is a well-staffed, well-oiled machine and all of the dive professionals were friendly—mostly young people from the Netherlands but a few locals as well. There is no help setting up or switching out your tanks unless you want to pay for concierge service. No one in our group did. Nitrox is free if you want it. One of the guides, a cool dude named Spider, was excellent. He has an innate sense of where the critters are hiding and every dive with him was off the chain. I know shore diving is the thing in Bonaire, but we had many older divers in our group and so boat dives were best, especially given the heat. Stony coral tissue disease is of course a big issue in Bonaire right now but there is still plenty to see, especially dive sites like Salt Pier and Bachelor’s Beach.
Websites	Plaza Resort Bonaire
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	[Grand Turk, Belize, Philippines, Fiji, Australia, Honduras, Mexico, California, Chesapeake Bay]
Closest Airport	Flamingo	Getting There	easy flight from DC via Miami
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy, cloudy	Seas	calm, no currents
Water Temp	85-87°F / 29-31°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-75 Ft/ 15-23 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	hour dive time limit; staying in buddy pairs and keeping up with the group
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Nothing fancy but very accommodating of photographers and their cameras. Nice that they gave some gentle reminders for photogs not to hog the photo opps

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Dive Review of Plaza Resort Bonaire in
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