Curacao Review

I reserve the right to refine this and it will be TLDR there was a lot that happened on the trip.

First of Sunscape asked me to move to the Hilton for the first two night because of "hurricane maintenance" they over booked! They gave me four free nights good for one year as compensation.

DIVE NOTE, you can get certified PADI there for $500 about $200 more than most places in the US.

The Hilton

The hotel is nothing nice, my A/C barely kept up with the humidity but some claimed they were getting frozen out of their rooms. The food was ok nothing special.

The dive shop was good, but the dive masters/guides were ok, one of them was speed racer when it came to leading the dive and the other took pics and promised to send them but never did, there was a statue of Neptune at on the floor and he took one of me with it. One good thing is that the web site said $99 two tank dives and that's what I got charged (more on this later.)

I left my camera back at the room for the majority of my dives due to no red filter.

First dive was Via Grande






2nd dive was Long Beach no pics but the coral there had a lot of algae problems.

Not it was time to move to Sunscape and here is where the fun begins.

Sunscape

The food was so so, the Italian restaurant was good and the beach bard had good food, the buffet was a notch below Golden Corral.

I called to delay my transfer from the Hilton to Sunscape due to diving in the morning, they never showed to pick me up and I had to take a taxi after half an hour of waiting (they did pay for it.)

Booked two double beds because I like one to crash in when I comeback and not have to worry about sand and such, they gave me one king bed, lifted the toilet seat to take a piss and it had not been flushed from the previous use. A manager moved me to a room and I got the double beds. They skipped restocking the mini bar one nigh, and didn't replace hand towels or wash rags my whole time there.

Took a day off from diving a laid on the beach. The Dutch people are strange, 80% of the couples I saw the women weighed 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 time what the man did, and they love tattoos, women with full sleeves. I did some snorkeling




The dive shop at Sunscape advertised $99 two tank dives but threw in a $10 "sales tax" fee. The next two dives ended up being drift dives because the current was strong. Beacon Point and Shipwreck point, no pics. We did see about a 2 foot long Barracuda and Moray Eel coming out of his hole.

The week before dive guides saw a 200 lb grouper, and eagle ray, and some large tarpon.

Here is the crown jewel of the trip, I did the Dolphin dive, we saw them the day before on one of our drift dives to Shipwreck point. They take up to 8 divers but I got extremely luck and the family of three backed out. I was the only one on the dive so I had Pasku to myself for the entire time. It was great because it was not a dive in an enclosed area, they take the dolphins out into the open water where they can go and do as they please.

The Dolphin Academy has about 24 Dolphins and it was cool to visit, the great thing is that they take them out into the open water to do their own thing and mate if they want with wild dolphins, but the always come back.