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Sea Saba/Queen's Gardens: "Wonderful Treatment", May, 2018, by Andrew Bernat, VA, US ( Contributor 17 reports with 6 Helpful votes). Report 10259 has 2 Helpful votes.
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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
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Comments	We signed up with Sea Saba and Queen’s Gardens for our fifth dive trip to Saba. And that’s when things went weird. We paid the package cost. And then the trip was postponed four times (two for medical and two for hurricanes). To be clear Sea Saba and Queen’s Gardens were well within their rights to cancel our package and retain the payments. Their policies are clear and none of the postponements were their fault or responsibility. But Lynn at Sea Saba instead checked with Queen’s Gardens and allowed us to postpone the trip. Not once but four times total. Each time we proposed a hoped-for date, she checked on availability and gave us the okay. So a great big shout out to Sea Saba and Queen’s Gardens for going way beyond on our behalf. We did finally make it to Saba and had two wonderful dives on The Needle and on Man O’War Shoals. Best visibility of any of our trips. Watched a Queen Triggerfish building a nest. And then the wind came up and the seas got rough. Due to the aforementioned medical issues, we decided not to dive in rough seas. Unfortunately the wind continued through the rest of our time on Saba. Again not Sea Saba’s fault or responsibility. But they gave us vouchers for four days of diving which we can use on a return trip anyway. So another great big shout out to Sea Saba. Instead of diving we went hiking, which we had always wanted to do but had only ever made the Mt. Scenery climb. The various trails are wonderful and highly recommended. Twice we took a taxi to Hells Gate and hiked back to Queen’s Gardens. Long and loads of up and down through the rain forest. But beautiful and well worth it. Queen’s Gardens shows the impact of the hurricanes with a number of minor repair and maintenance issues. But the food is wonderful and the staff always looking to say yes to requests.
Websites	Sea Saba Queen's Gardens
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Raja Ampat, Fiji, Great Barrier Reef, Bora Bora, Lembeh, Caribbean, Bali, Wakatobi
Closest Airport	Saba	Getting There	St. Maarten's airport is currently big tents.
Dive Conditions
Weather	windy, cloudy	Seas	choppy
Water Temp	81-°F / 27-°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	100-140 Ft/ 30-43 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	No deco
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	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
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Sea Saba/Queen's Gardens in Saba

Sea Saba/Queen's Gardens: "Wonderful Treatment", May, 2018,

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Dive Review of Sea Saba/Queen's Gardens in
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