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Dive Friends Bonaire/Djambo, Jan, 2013, by Faithe Evans, TX, US ( Reviewer 3 reports with 1 Helpful vote). Report 6837.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling
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Comments	The good: Djambo has become our home on Bonaire. We get up each morning and turn off the bedroom a/c and open up a complete thru island breeze, a bit stronger this time of year. We always opt for an upstairs, one of 5 - 1 bedroom apartments so that we have an open front to the pool/common area and a door to the bedroom that locks to the outside. Go online and see their accommodations. They also have 2 nice 2 bedroom 1 bath apartments for families or 2 couples. These also have a nice terrace. We can't say enough good things about the owners of Djambo, 2 couples, Martin & Ilse and Dick and Liselotte (Lisa). They live there and take excellent care of everything. Any issue brought to their attention is resolved quickly and thoroughly and they are very appreciative of the notice. Free wi-fi in the front area of the apartments, all, in fact, I'm sitting here writing this now! We get a stay-drive-dive package with Djambo which includes the apartment, a truck with bottle rack and all our air/nitrox all for a single price and a good one, I might add. The apartments are quiet and clean. The rinse tanks are clean and ready every day and the dive gear storage area is very secure and clean. Each apartment receives keys for not only the apartment but the front gate and gear storage area lock upon arrival. Come and go as you please. No, it's not ocean front or have a restaurant but there is a nice little open bar each evening open till about 8 so that you can gather and share the diving stories of the day then walk to town's many good restaurants or dive to ones a bit farther. Reef life is excellent in Bonaire, fish, corals, sponges, macros everywhere! Some great wide angles should you get a shot of the manta grazing the area or a huge baitball being herded by a few jacks and other feeders. Turtles are seen quite often on just about any site you choose and are very photogenic if you have camera available to you. Only down side to traveling to Bonaire is airline service. If you want to go other than on Saturday and return on Saturday you are taking big chances. DAE has about the poorest service in the skies. Don't even think about flying them. Most of the time they will sell you a ticket but we were told they don't really service Bonaire anymore. I witnessed this when I went to the airport to buy a different airlines return ticket which also required an extra night stay (not necessarily a bad thing). DAE had left a load of passengers stranded on Bonaire with no attempt of supplying service to these folks that had connections to make to their destinations. I really feared for the life of the poor ticket clerk. A couple of security personnel came over to the screaming crowd but I left before any blood was shed. I was informed that to stay with the major carriers is best. United is on my BAD list since their merger with my beloved Continental. They have jacked up the prices to about 300-500 per seat above Delta and I try to avoid American at all costs. United limits its flights to just the busy season so if you want to go during the slow season you have to choose a different airline. Not happy about this at all.
Websites	Dive Friends Bonaire Djambo
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	St. Thomas, Cozumel, Maui, Belize, Palau, Yap, Galapagos
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	windy	Seas	surge, currents, no currents
Water Temp	81-83°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	5
Water Visibility	30-60 Ft/ 9-18 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	All shore dives. No dive master.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	N/A

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Dive Review of Dive Friends Bonaire/Djambo in
Bonaire