the house reef has been hit a little with the warming temps noted some bleaching last trip that said the stay was great little it always is
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the house reef has been hit a little with the warming temps noted some bleaching last trip that said the stay was great little it always is
Diving facilities are excellent as well as all the people that work on the Dive Shop, diving couldn´t be easier! As for the property it needs a lot of updating and care. The pool chairs are soooo old, the road, curb and gardens are all average and nothing is really clean, just average clean. We stayed in one of the...
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OK, enough people have written about Buddy Dive report. It certainly delivers what is promised: professional diving, easy to access house reef, and decent rooms and food (not luxury, but nice).
The problem is that there is not very much fish left in Bonaire. The reefs are overall lifeless. Why? Ask the biologists, but seeing locals fishing on the house...
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I run a dive shop in Atlanta GA and every year we take a group to Buddy's and every year they just get better and better. The rooms are big, clean and confortable. The house reef can't be beat and the people are the friendliest on the island. My only complant was that they changed cooks at the bar and...
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Note: This review mostly applies to the Buddy Dive resort dive activity operation; not the hotel per se.
The once beautiful full-of-life reefs of Bonaire are now about 50% destroyed apparently for a variety of reasons. From “WBD” (White Band Disease) and abnormal hurricane activity since 2005 which have done significant damage.
I was last diving on Bonaire in 1984...
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Nice accomodations, nice staff. Great diving. At my age I really enjoyed the ease of diving. My wife and I loved the beach/waterfront bar and buffet! Lovely island!
First, this review is for the dive shop, not the Hotel. We stayed next door at Coral Paradise.
These guys have diving down to a science. They have been doing it for a while and really make it easy. All they require is a quick hour orientation and checkout dive and then you are off. And the checkout dive is...
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Great job Buddy Dive. You are very professional, boats were never over-filled, dive masters were friendly, rental dive equipment was in great condition. Friendly and helpfull staff.
Buddy Dive is a nice resort (especially with Buddy Reef in its backyard), with the only entrance at the front of the property, where a security guard sits at watch during the night. Even with that, we had a BCD stolen off of our patio during the night. Unfortunately, the staff at Buddy Dive was very nonchalant about our loss...
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I loved this place. Quiet and well located. The staff and dive's crew were 100%.Save your skin from mosquitos (not a resort's fault) and don't expect easy internet conexion (it really can be great).I just will come back!!
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