Dive Review of Casa Playa Blanca in
Belize/Ambergris Cay

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Casa Playa Blanca, Jun, 2005, by Linda Briggs, Tx, USA . Report 2099.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	I don't think owner Gaz Cooper knows how rude and unaccommodating his staff is. All of my dealings with Gaz prior to the trip were great. His office person is also very service oriented. However, once on the boat, it's a totally different story. Boat captain drove the boat wrecklessly including going way too fast at night in choppy seas. We had to tell him more than once to slow down. He made rude comments about the weight of some of our female divers. On dives there were very few attempts to show us any critters. The divemaster was obviously embarrassed by the actions of the boat captain. He was fairly new as resort staff but was the most friendly and helpful of anyone. The so-so food at the resort was $20 and no menu. You ate what was there. However, you could take a $10 water taxi into San Pedro and buy food at the grocers or just eat in town. No cooking as the only air conditioning was in the bedrooms. A/C in my room didn't cool much. We asked to set up our own equipment but boat captain didn't like this as it cut into his off time. Guests who were leaving as we arrived told us the crew had smashed their computer faces due to tanks being thrown about the boat. Crew denied it but we also witnessed a lack of care when crew moved equipment around the boat. I took a group of 14 people and not one was satisfied with the service we received. We had 2 divers who only got to make 1 dive due to ear problems. They asked if they could be charged for only the dives they made but they were denied and had to pay the full diver package for the week. I will never go back there and would not recommend it to anyone.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Fiji, Hawaii, Tahiti, Cozumel, Bahamas, St Lucia, Curacao, BVI, USVI, Turks & Caicos, Honduras Bay Islands, Little Cayman, Puerto Rico, Jamaica
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, rainy, cloudy, dry	Seas	choppy, surge
Water Temp	81-84°F / 27-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	2
Water Visibility	40-60 Ft/ 12-18 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Depth and time was restricted, although time restrictions were not really adhered to.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	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		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Cameras were not handled with care by boat staff. No camera table on boat. Rinse bucket was 5 gallon bucket in which some cameras didn't fit all the way into.

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Dive Review of Casa Playa Blanca in Belize/Ambergris Cay

Casa Playa Blanca, Jun, 2005,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

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Reporter and Travel

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Dive Policy

What I Saw

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Dive Review of Casa Playa Blanca in
Belize/Ambergris Cay