Dive Review of Sunset House in
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Sunset House: "Slick valet diving, a few steps from your hotel room", Oct, 2018, by Harvey S Cohen, NJ, US ( Sr. Contributor 25 reports with 18 Helpful votes). Report 10786 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling
Overall Rating
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Comments	Hotel rooms, restaurant and bar, spacious equipment lockers, and dock are all together-- very convenient. Dive staff are EXTREMELY eager to help carry gear and set it up. Divers can follow a guide or just go off with a buddy. Guide normally leaves divers within sight of the mooring after about 30 minutes and encourages divers to explore on their own. The week I was there, everyone was very happy with this system. Some sites had healthy coral, including a lot of fans and black coral, while others were covered in algae. Fish tended to be small, presumably due to over-fishing. The grouper you see on the dinner menu is no longer on the reef! Several sites had wonderful jungle-gym topography, with lots of channels and swim-throughs above a sandy bottom. Lots of conchs on our dives. The house reef, a military landing craft, and the famous mermaid sculpture are an easy swim or snorkel from the dock. Rooms were large and comfortable, with good beds, showers, aircon. I would have liked a desk where I could work on my PC and my camera more easily. The restaurant and bar served good lunches and dinners from a Caribbean menu and an Indian menu. Breakfasts were adequate but lackluster. Sunset House is less than a mile from dozens of good restaurants. We particularly enjoyed dinners at Cayman Cabana, whose Thursday-night family-style tasting dinner is a chance to sample locally-produced foods and socialize with Caymanians. A rental car makes restaurant-hopping much easier.
Websites	Sunset House
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Gulf of Eilat, Bali, Komodo, Raja Ampat, Banda Sea, Red Sea, Fiji, Palau, Coral Sea, Galapagos, many Caribbean locations, New Jersey, Florida, National Aquarium, Dutch Springs, Silfra (Iceland), Panama (Pacific)
Closest Airport	NAS	Getting There	American flies from Newark with connections in Miami. United has direct flights some days.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy	Seas	calm, choppy, surge, no currents
Water Temp	81-83°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	5
Water Visibility	40-90 Ft/ 12-27 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	1-hour limit on some dives
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	UW photographers can take courses (classroom or boat-based) with Cathy Church or her staff, and buy stuff from her shop's dazzling selection of photo gear and supplies. Boats have a camera bucket, but no other camera support. The resort, inexplicably, has no camera tables or compressed air. But since rooms are just a few feet from the dock, it's convenient to work on cameras in the room. I would have liked a desk where I could work on my PC and my camera more easily.

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Dive Review of Sunset House in Cayman Islands/Grand Cayman

Sunset House: "Slick valet diving, a few steps from your hotel room", Oct, 2018,

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

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Reporter and Travel

Dive Conditions

Dive Policy

What I Saw

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Dive Review of Sunset House in
Cayman Islands/Grand Cayman