Flamingo Diving Bonaire
Flamingo Diving Bonaire
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Scuba & SnorkellingWater SportsSightseeing ToursPrivate ToursSelf-Guided Tours & Rentals
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Monday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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About
Bon Bini to Flamingo Diving! We offer quality PADI classes, oceanfront in small and deeply engaged settings or completely private. Join us on a luxury boat diving expedition or let our experienced private guides show you the wonders of our reefs. Located at our lagoon next to Ocean Oasis Beach Club Bonaire, closest and en route to all to the best dive sites with exclusive entry to our house reef. Rent some high-end gear from our shop. Our house reef, Punt Vierkant, is one of the most beautiful and untouched reefs on the west coast. It's never been very accessible from shore, keeping it pristine. We aim to keep it that way and continue to enjoy its beauty right from our doorstep! See you soon at Flamingo Diving. Fill out the contact form on our website to have a private concierge help you with your booking, give accommodation and restaurant tips and help you with booking a car.
Belnem, Bonaire
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Esther D
3 contributions
Mar 2020
I was very hesitant about learning how to dive and almost walked out of the class after about one hour because of being panicked. Fred and Monique were so kind and patient that I did end up staying and by day 3, I could not wait to get back into the water. I highly recommend Flamingo Diving to anybody who is interested in a fun and extremely well guided diving learning environment. The focus on safety and detail to learning the skills is something that you can't get at the other diving schools. The personal attention makes the learning how to dive experience a lot of fun, relaxed, and informative. Very professional team and highly recommended. If they can teach me how to love diving, they can teach anybody!!
Written March 29, 2020
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Thank you very much for the wonderful review. We have had a wonderful time together with you on Dushi Bonaire. Many save and Beautiful dives. We’ll meet you guys again on Bonaire. Flamingo Diving private valet service. Monique & Fred.
Written March 30, 2020
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Amy W
Scottsdale, AZ2 contributions
Aug 2021
Flamingo Diving is EXCELLENT!! As a diver traveling to Bonaire for 20+ years, I can honestly say that this is THE TOP independent dive service I have used on the island. This is a family run business - extremely friendly, helpful, professional, flexible, knowledgeable - and completely dedicated to their client's safety, enjoyment, and convenience. Very competitive pricing as well! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Contact Sam, Fred, and Monique for a fabulous experience
Written September 14, 2021
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Amy thank you so much for this glowing review, coming from you guys as long time visitors especially. See you soon!
Written September 16, 2021
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Slmoore03
Little Rock, AR5 contributions
Jul 2021
This was our family's first dive trip and Flamingo Diving took care of us like we were part of their family! From the time we sat down for our orientation, they provided us with water & coffee to make us feel welcome. They made sure all of our equipment was working & had excellent (& new) regulators for rent. They helped us plan guided dives and partnered with AB Dive and Eco Tours to ensure we had a day of boat diving on Klein Bonaire. They had fresh towels after every guided dive and provided healthy snacks too. Sammy and Alora were excellent dive guides & took us to the best spots on the island. My kids were new divers and they made sure they were taken care of and had an excellent experience as well. I've been diving for 27 years and this is the best dive shop I've ever used anywhere in the world. They were skilled, professional, warm & personable. I can not recommend them more!
Written July 26, 2021
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Wow Stephanie, thank you so much for this glowing review. We're at a loss for words - thats what we do it for. Many thanks and we hope (and expect) to see you back real soon. Until the next bon bini!
Thank you,
The entire Flamingo Diving team.
Written August 1, 2021
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Karlijn van de Haar
2 contributions
Feb 2020 • Family
My sister and i have achieved our open water diving license at flamingo diving. The guidance we received was top notch, the week was fully focused on us and we could decide for ourselves what time we wanted to start or end. Monique and Fred are such lovely people and it was super fun and we would really recommend flamingo diving !!
Written February 29, 2020
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Thank for the wonderful review. We have had a wonderful time together with you guys on Dushi Bonaire. Many save and Beautiful dives together
We’ll meet you guys again on Bonaire.
Flamingo Diving private valet service.
Monique & Fred.
Written March 5, 2020
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Kralendijk, Bonaire23 contributions
Sep 2021 • Solo
I went on an Ostracod night dive with Flamingo Diving. Sam kicked the evening off with a clear safety briefing followed up with a story about Ostracods and what we could expect…
After entering the water and going down, the show started…. WOW! This was way beyond my expectations!
The perfect guidance by the Flamingo diving crew made it so relaxed and let me fully enjoy this moment.
I definitely will return to experience it once again.
Robert
After entering the water and going down, the show started…. WOW! This was way beyond my expectations!
The perfect guidance by the Flamingo diving crew made it so relaxed and let me fully enjoy this moment.
I definitely will return to experience it once again.
Robert
Written February 4, 2022
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Je bent een topper Robert ❤️
Written February 18, 2022
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LauraAbr0ad
Atlanta, GA50 contributions
Mar 2022 • Family
Everything about the team at Flamingo is centered around ensuring that each person has a fabulous dive experience. They listen to concerns young and old and break down into small teams to give live experience and build confidence. What a fabulous experience for a family with new teen divers and Parents with PADI credentials to make it feel like a bespoke, family experience. Kudos to the full team - diving doesn’t get much better than this!
Written March 9, 2022
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❤️ much love and we hope you’ll be back soon!
Written April 27, 2022
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JPVM13
Alexandria, VA231 contributions
Jan 2022
We had a wonderful time diving with Flamingo Diving in Bonaire over the course of 2 weeks during the winter holidays! Family run, super friendly and a great location. The team went out of their way to customize our dives and are simply a top notch shop. We highly recommend using them if you are diving in Bonaire.
Written January 11, 2022
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Thank you so much for the kind words, we’d love to welcome you back soon!
Written February 18, 2022
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Peyton F
5 contributions
Oct 2022 • Couples
The most amazing experience of my life. My husband and I visited Bonaire on our honeymoon. Although was an experienced diver, the thought of it gave me so much anxiety but hey, what won’t we do for love right? Flamingo Diving was a God sent. Not only did we arrive to a sweet honeymoon celebration, I never felt nervous for a second. My first dive was absolutely incredible. Originally we had four dives booked for our trip, and we immediately booked as many more as we could fit into the rest of our vacation. Zoe, Alex. Casper, Iven, and Sam made diving the most incredible memory for me, but not only that, they gave me so many amazing memories to take home with my new husband. They were the highlight of our trip, and to this day we still talk about how our honeymoon would’ve been nothing as amazing without Flamingo Diving and how lucky we are to have booked with them. If you are thinking about diving in Bonaire there is no other option than Flamingo. We have dreamed of everywhere we will vacation together and Flamingo Diving is a big reason why our next stop is planned.. back to Bonaire!
Written March 14, 2023
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Wow Peyton it's such an honor to read this review. We loved having you guys over during your honeymoon. We're very excited to read that you're planning on returning. We can't wait to hear how all your projects in the states are progressing you and are looking forward to reading your booking email.
See you soon!
Until the next bon Bini!
Written March 21, 2023
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Stefan Bieri
Thun, Switzerland2 contributions
Aug 2021 • Couples
We were diving with Flamingo for three weeks. As two Divemasters we have seen (and worked for) lots of diveshops worldwide and Flamingo is easily in our top three.
We never felt like customers and it was like exploring and chatting about the ocean with friends. Amazing experience!
The shop is very well equipped (including DIN tanks) and built with love as you‘ll see in all the little details.
If you just want to dive by yourself (as we did) you should still choose this shop instead of the big ones. The families (run by a dutch couple and their son) and employees passion for the ocean and useful tips will overweight the tiny premium you might pay.
If you stay there around full moon make sure to do the Ostracod Nightdive with Sam. A truly unique experience you‘ll never forget!
We never felt like customers and it was like exploring and chatting about the ocean with friends. Amazing experience!
The shop is very well equipped (including DIN tanks) and built with love as you‘ll see in all the little details.
If you just want to dive by yourself (as we did) you should still choose this shop instead of the big ones. The families (run by a dutch couple and their son) and employees passion for the ocean and useful tips will overweight the tiny premium you might pay.
If you stay there around full moon make sure to do the Ostracod Nightdive with Sam. A truly unique experience you‘ll never forget!
Written October 4, 2021
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You guys are the best! Thanks for the honest and nice words. See you very soon hopefully!
Written October 14, 2021
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JADouglas
1 contribution
Jan 2023 • Friends
Great experience. All the staff are highly skilled and very caring. I was a new diver just got my open water certification and I felt very comfortable. They are always helping you and checking on you. I even did a night dive and it was great.
Written January 26, 2023
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Hello Douglas,
Thank you for your review. We will miss you guy's, it was a pleasure to have you. Keep making Wonderfull and safe dives. We hope to see you back on Dushi Bonaire.
Greetings from all of us.
Valente
Written January 29, 2023
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