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	------- Select a Dive Operator -------- -- All Dive Operators in Bonaire -- Belmar Bonaire Bonaire Dive and Adventure Bruce Bowker's Carib Inn Buddy Dive Resort Captain Don's Habitat Dive Friends Bonaire Divi Flamingo Harbour Village Beach Club Larry's Wild Side Diving Plaza Resort Bonaire Wannadive Bonaire

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Dive Op / Resort	Live Aboard?	Area	Title / Review	Rating Advanced / Beginner	Diving Date	Reporter/ # Dives	Photos/ Helpful Votes
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*Dive Friends Bonaire/ Den Laman*			"Another relaxing two weeks in Bonaire" Bonaire: Den Laman and Dive Friends, May 8- 22, 2026 My wife and I recently made our fourteenth trip to Bonaire. Reservations... Full report		5/2026	Craig A Wood 1000+ Dives
*Divi Flamingo*			"Five stars. As good as it gets in the Caribbean" This was perhaps my third visit to Divi Flamingo in Bonaire, and they continue to provide a great experience. This trip, particula... Full report		3/2026	Samuel B Johnson 500+ Dives
*Nautical Adventures*			"Kiss Spirit Rebreather certification" Tim Knight of Nautical Adventures operates out of Oklahoma, but he has a large home and rental properties in Bonaire. I stayed wit... Full report		1/2025	Willard Pascoe 250+ Dives
*Bruce Bowker's Carib Inn*			"Familar Faces at Carib Inn, and always something new to see. " Arriving at Carib Inn is always like coming home. Bonaire gets a lot of repeat visitors, and Carib Inn gets even more. Simple clea... Full report		10/2025	Doug Hook 500+ Dives
*Bruce Bowker's Carib Inn*			"Pleasant shore diving, lots of fish, sad corals" Carib Inn continues to be a very pleasant place to stay, small, quiet, and oceanfront, with a well- run dive operation. Lots of int... Full report		10/2025	Burro Station 100+ Dives
*Black Durgon*			"Black Durgon " Black Durgon is a very small dive operation: run by a man named Al . He had a dive shop in New Jersey 40 + years ago took d... Full report		10/2025	Robert Levine 1000+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*			"Generally Good Trip" This was our 3rd trip to Bonaire. The shore diving is nice and easy, but helps to plan to maximize your trips North and South. T... Full report		6/2025	Greg K 500+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*			"First Time in Bonaire" We will go back again! We did the "Drive and Dive" option. Next time will be the Boat and Buddy Reef option. Due to the legally re... Full report		11/2025	Arly Buchanan 1000+ Dives
*Bonaire East Coast Diving/ Not a resort - just a dive operatio*			"A fun change of pace during a trip to Bonaire" I believe this used to be called Larry’s Wild Side diving. Depart near Loc Bay on 30ft rigid inflatable boat (RIB). Conditions i... Full report		11/2025	GERALD WILSoN 1000+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*			"A nice week of shore diving" I spent a week at the Plaza (separate review) and then moved to Buddy Dive for another week. Where the Plaza is a nice resort tha... Full report		11/2025	GERALD WILSoN 1000+ Dives
*Plaza Resort Bonaire*			"Both great and meh…" The Plaza is not really set up as a dedicated dive resort. I would describe it more as a resort that caters to families, but with... Full report		10/2025	GERALD WILSoN 1000+ Dives
*Dive Friends Bonaire/ Den Laman*			"Great visit to Bonaire" Bonaire: Den Laman and Dive Friends, September 24- October 8, 2025 My wife and I recently made our thirteenth trip to Bonaire. ... Full report		9/2025	Craig A Wood 1000+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*			"Nice dive vacation" A few of us traveled to Bonaire in the southern Caribbean for a week of diving, staying at Buddy Dive Resort. Buddy Dive is . . . a ... Full report		9/2025	Rick Feinleib 250+ Dives	2
*Bruce Bowker's Carib Inn/ Port Bonaire Condo's*			"Bonaire is our Go to place" ... Full report		7/2025	Diane Krasovec 250+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*		Bonaire	"Nice Resort with Easy CaribbeanDiving" Nice Resort with Easy Caribbean Diving If you want easy Caribbean diving at a nice resort during the fall hurricane ... Full report		9/2025	John Crossley 1000+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*			"Good trip to Bonaire" The visibility was always excellent, the water warm (3mm wetsuit good enough), and the reef topography was excellent. However, it’... Full report		2/2025	Joseph Muratore 1000+ Dives
*Plaza Resort Bonaire*			"Wow ! what a week " First, this isn’t the first time that I’ve been to Bonaire. In fact, I love this island and have been coming to this beautiful cou... Full report		6/2025	Kevin Smith 250+ Dives
*Bruce Bowker's Carib Inn*			"Bonaire - super finds and hopefully improving reefs" Bonaire isn't what it was when we first went in 1996, but nowhere in the Caribbean is. Our consensus is that the reef conditions a... Full report		7/2025	Andrew Bernat 500+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*			"Shore Diving at its Best" As many seasoned divers already know, Bonaire is known as the Shore Diving Capital of the World. My wife and I had a wonderful ex... Full report		5/2025	Peter Neubauer 1000+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*		Kralendijk	"Fabulous Shore Diving" Buddy Dive Resort (BDR) is very organized. Great communication from beginning to end. BDR promptly responded to any/ all question... Full report		5/2025	Christopher Frink 100+ Dives
*Dive Friends Bonaire/ Den Laman*			"Nice twelfth visit to Bonaire" Bonaire: Den Laman and Dive Friends, May 7- 21, 2025 My wife and I recently made our twelfth trip to Bonaire and stayed at Den La... Full report		5/2025	Craig A Wood 1000+ Dives
*Belmar Bonaire*			"R.I.P. Bonaire" I'm sorry to report this, but Bonaire has fallen from the great pinnacle of "incredible cannot be believed" diving to, basically, ... Full report		3/2025	Joel Snyder 1000+ Dives
*Bonaire East Coast Diving*			"Amazing dives on Bonaire east side" We dove with Bonaire East Coast Diving through Buddy Dive. They have one day set aside for Buddy customers, but you can book throu... Full report		3/2025	Morgan Lyons 250+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*			"Great introduction to Bonaire" Went to Bonaire with a small group from my local dive shop. The package included accommodations, breakfast, truck to support off- s... Full report		3/2025	Morgan Lyons 250+ Dives
*Dive Friends Bonaire/ Den Laman*			"Relaxing visit to Bonaire" Bonaire: Den Laman and Dive Friends, October 16- 30, 2024 My wife and I recently made our eleventh visit to Bonaire, and like th... Full report		10/2024	Craig A Wood 1000+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*		[N/A] Buddy Dive resort	"A large Dive operation that comes up short." [Non Jack Ray <nsswe1@gmail. com> 10: 00 AM (23 minutes ago) to me I wrote this as a guide for Buddy to improve there op... Full report		11/2024	Jack Ray 500+ Dives
*Harbour Village Beach Club*			"Great Resort on Bonaire" Harbour Village is a hidden gem. I would not dive from any other resort on the island. It has the only private beach on th... Full report		10/2024	Gary Justice 250+ Dives
*Dive Friends Bonaire/ Delfins Beach Resort.com*		Bonaire	"Dive Friends a good Dive OP, Delfins Resort does NOT cater to divers!" Travel to Bonaire from Toronto at this time of year involves a stop over in Curacao. Then DiviDivi flight to Bonaire which was an... Full report		11/2024	Rick Bates 1000+ Dives
*Toucan Diving/ Plaza Beach & Dive Resort*		Bonaire	"Plaza Resort & Toucan DIvers excellent - Reef health not so much" Travel to Bonaire from Toronto at this time of year involves a stop over in Curacao. Then DiviDivi flight to Bonaire, which was a... Full report		11/2024	Rick Bates 1000+ Dives
*VIP Diving/ Bloozz*		Bonaire	"Bonaire 2 weeks: August 2024" Bonaire Trip Report- August, 2024 My wife and I spent 2 weeks in Bonaire August 10- 25, 2024. Since I have written a number of t... Full report		8/2024	Greg Bruce 1000+ Dives
*Belmar Bonaire*			"Belmar " Belmar/ Bonaire apartments - major change in management. Out of 22 units only 5 are now managed by Buddy Dive. The remainder of t... Full report		8/2024	Robert Van Calcar 1000+ Dives
*Plaza Resort Bonaire*			"A nice week in Bonaire" The Plaza Resort is undergoing some multi- year renovations. The pool area and dining room are quite nice. There is a new lobby tha... Full report		9/2024	William G. Schulz 500+ Dives
*Divi Flamingo*		Bonaire	"Old friends" ... Full report		2/2024	James Ringer 1000+ Dives
*Captain Don's Habitat*			"Great Vacation at Captain Don's!" We had a really great time at Captain Don's. Reading some of the recent reviews we were skeptical, but many of the concerns other... Full report		9/2024	Matt <100 Dives
*Bruce Bowker's Carib Inn*			"A great place to be if Bonaire is where you choose to go" Bonaire has certainly degraded in our (many) years of diving there but it remains the easiest, most accessible diving anywhere. An... Full report		6/2024	Andrew Bernat 500+ Dives
*Captain Don's Habitat*			"Not Nitrox Analyzer" I'm posting this because a friend came back from a week at Capt. Don's . She reported that while Capt. Don had nitrox available an... Full report		1/2024	Eric Weiss 250+ Dives
*Dive Friends Bonaire/ Den Laman*			"A great visit, the corals have suffered " My wife and I recently made our tenth trip to Bonaire and, like the last six visits, stayed at Den Laman and dived with Dive Frien... Full report		12/2023	Craig A Wood 1000+ Dives
*Captain Don's Habitat*			"A disappointing return to Bonaire" It had been a few years since we’d dived Bonaire, so a return was in to offing. Previous stays at Divi, Buddy’s and Captain Don’s... Full report		12/2023	Larry S. Klumb 1000+ Dives	5
*Divi Flamingo*			"An enjoyable week of diving" This was my third trip to Dive Flamingo Bonaire, and the first since Covid. I was pleased to see a divemaster who I remembered fro... Full report		12/2023	Richard Schifreen 250+ Dives
*Tropical Divers Bonaire*			"Three Weeks for our Third Trip is Long Enough" This was our third trip to Bonaire and our second time diving with Tropical Divers. It was our first time staying with Tropical Di... Full report		11/2022	Ryan M Neely 100+ Dives
*Bruce Bowker's Carib Inn*			"Carib Inn is where the heart is !" I believe it was an Undercurrent article that led to our first visit to Bruce Bowkers Carib Inn, back in 1991. Simple, unfussy acc... Full report		10/2023	Doug Hook 500+ Dives
*Divi Flamingo*			"Bonaire " The dive operator didn't honor our contract. The first day I was supposed to have 3 tanks on a dive boat. I was told the first d... Full report		6/2023	Rick Dayan 1000+ Dives
*AB Dive/ Water Vilas*			"Bonaire growth and coral disease" This was my fourth trip to Bonaire and things are changing there. There now is a $75 Bonaire Tourism Tax per person that can be p... Full report		10/2023	Steve Dussault 1000+ Dives
*Black Durgon/ [same]Black Durgon*			"Great inexpensive place to Dive " [small 10 Rooms right on the beach owner Al. &. And women Doris is the Room cleaner she changes towels & sheets every day makes ... Full report		10/2023	Robert Levine 1000+ Dives
*Divi Flamingo*			"Ok diving, budget no frills dive operation" We were disappointed with our group trip to Divi dive resort. The dive operation was bare bones help, they make you carry all your... Full report		4/2023	Feney matthews 1000+ Dives
*Divi Flamingo*			"Ok diving, budget no frills dive operation" We were disappointed with our group trip to Divi dive resort. The dive operation was bare bones help, they make you carry all your... Full report		4/2023	Feney matthews 1000+ Dives
*Carib Inn*		Bonaire	"The reef is not as happy" Twenty years of diving Bonaire. As always, the Carib Iin does not disappoint even with the loss of Bruce. From the dive op, to the... Full report		9/2023	Lydia S Segal 500+ Dives
*Toucan Diving/ Plaza Beach and Dive Resort*			"Standard Bonaire Diving" Third time at this resort. All inclusive is the way to go. Plenty of hot water, no complaints about the room. Restaurant served ... Full report		10/2023	Ronald Bailey 1000+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*			"Buddy Dive Sept / Oct 2023" Delta operates non- stop flights from Atlanta leaving and departing on Saturdays only. We were there during Tek Week, which made t... Full report		10/2023	Jon Hoffmann 500+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*		Bonaire & Klein Bonaire	"Windy, but still good diving" The only reason I went to Bonaire was on account of a brand new underwater camera system I just assembled. It's a Sea & Sea Housin... Full report		4/2023	John Morgan 1000+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*			"Post-COVID Bonaire is very congested" After diving in Bonaire for almost 20 years, it appears that the freedom and accessibility of shore diving, which is what makes th... Full report		9/2023	David Owens 500+ Dives
*Dive Friends Bonaire*			"Two weeks of shorediving and PADI AOW " New Tourism Tax. No visa required from the US, but a flat rate Tourism Tax started in 2022. Be careful, as there are many non offi... Full report		9/2023	Joel Horie 250+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*			"Lovely Diving but with a Side of SCTLD" TRIP REPORT - [. . . ] SMUGMUG SLIDESHOW - https: / ... Full report		5/2023	Ken Kurtis 1000+ Dives
*Divi Flamingo*			"One of my favorites" My 6th (or more) trip. Several operators, but while all good, these are a little better. ... Full report		2/2023	James Ringer 1000+ Dives
*East Coast Divers*		South, West, East	"Excellent East Coast Dive, 30 green turtles" Max 10 divers per boat. Popular, so you must reserve early. 10 mile drive from the town. Two places to eat on the East Coast after... Full report		9/2023	Paul Enright 100+ Dives
*Bruce Bowker's Carib Inn*			"Carib Inn remains constant" The operation remains consistent with our past trips under the management of Lynne. Rooms have upgraded appliances. Dive masters r... Full report		8/2023	Andrew Bernat 500+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*			"Pretty Good Caribbean Diving" This was our first trip to Bonaire. I've avoided it up until now mainly because we are spoiled liveaboard divers and didn't want t... Full report		4/2023	David Marchese 1000+ Dives
*Captain Don's Habitat*			"Relaxed diving on your schedule " We spent two weeks at Captain Don's Habitat on Bonaire in February. Over the years, we've tried other options, but the ease of Ha... Full report		3/2023	Joel Snyder 1000+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*			"Bonaire 2022" 7th trip to Bonaire for me, 1st time at Buddy's. Pickup at airport was good, accommodations were good, with kitchenette with fridg... Full report		8/2022	Kathryn S Roberts 1000+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*			"It isn't the same Bonaire" I guess I am too jaded - I have been diving Bonaire for 42 years. The destruction I see to the reefs and decline of fish life is s... Full report		3/2023	Janice Culbertson 1000+ Dives
*Plaza Resort Bonaire/ [same]Plaza*			"Lthe easiest for seniors" We have used the Toucan dive shop for over 20 years. There was a time when we almost quit them but since Hagen took over it is ran... Full report		2/2023	Sue Ann Bivans 1000+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*			"Buddy Dive - as well organized as it's always been" It had been a few years since we were last in Bonaire. Not sure if it's getting older or rougher weather. We had a hard time wit... Full report		12/2022	Marjorie Griffing 250+ Dives
*Divi Flamingo*			"Another good, not great trip to Divi in Bonaire" Our group of about 18 divers from Wateree Dive Center in Columbia, SC returned for another New Years trip to Bonaire. The main div... Full report		1/2023	G. Tripp Jones MD 1000+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*		[N/A]Caribbean	"Good boat and excellent shore diving." Bonaire - Buddy Dive Resort The dive center area for storing your gear was small and needed updating. Gearing up for the... Full report		11/2022	Kenneth Gilbert New 500+ Dives
*Divi Flamingo/ [same)*		West side and Klein Bonaire	"Diventures Thanksgiving trip to Divi Dive Bonaire." Went with a dive club and 28 travelers. 6th time in Bonaire and 4th at Divi spread over 30 years of visits. The main reasons... Full report		11/2022	Bill Schlegel 1000+ Dives
*Dive Friends Bonaire/ Sand Dollar*		Sand Dollar	"Diver's Paradise" We were unable to arrange a connecting flight from Key West Airport (close to our home) to Miami via American. Instead we used th... Full report		11/2022	Joe and Edie Primavera 500+ Dives
*Bruce Bowker's Carib Inn*			"As wonderful as always" We've been to Bonaire several times, staying at the Carib Inn nearly every time. Little seems to have changed, which is good, thou... Full report		3/2022	Phyllis Robinson 500+ Dives
*Captain Don's Habitat*		Bonaire	"Bonaire, yet again" Bonaire ain't what it used to be! But I guess that applies to most Caribbean dive destinations. I was absolutely amazed at the d... Full report		11/2022	Bobby Munno 1000+ Dives
*Captain Don's Habitat*			"Relaxing Diving " The resort was comfortable and the diving was good. Nitrox was included at no charge for the boat dives and now also includes Nitr... Full report		10/2022	Patrick Lynch 250+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*			"Good trip" We were part of a group of 17 divers. This is my 5th trip to Bonaire and my 3rd trip at Buddy's Dive Resort. A truck is included i... Full report		10/2022	Ron Carlisle 1000+ Dives
*Divi Flamingo*			"Another Great Bonaire Trip" Our group dove Bonaire with Divi Flamingo in November. Weather wasn't great because of tropical systems - rare for Bonaire. The re... Full report		11/2022	David Van Ryn 500+ Dives
*Captain Don's Habitat*			"Another great trip to Bonaire" Thanks to STINAPA's and many of the dive operators' hard work, the reef is in tremendous shape - even better this year than past y... Full report		11/2022	Larry Eggert 1000+ Dives
*Buddy Dive Resort*			"Buddy Dive and East Coast Diving in Bonaire" After a long hiatus my daughter and I got back into it with a trip to Bonaire. We stayed at Buddy Dive, just as we had when we we... Full report		8/2022	Michael Szathmary 250+ Dives
*Captain Don's Habitat*			"October 2022 Stay" This was my 7th trip to Bonaire, and my first and last visit to Captain Don's. It seems to survive based on a reputation from dec... Full report		10/2022	Glen McLaughlin 250+ Dives
*Dive Friends Bonaire/ Den Laman*			"Best of all worlds" My wife & I just got back from a 2 week scuba diving trip to Bonaire. We did a package of diving, driving, & accommodations throug... Full report		5/2022	Mark Thorne 500+ Dives
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