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Easy Divers/Habitat Curacao, Jun, 2006, by Steve, NE, USA . Report 2566.
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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	Habitat Curacao is a pleasant enough place for those wishing a dive holiday. The house reef is excellent, and the shore diving support facility is excellent as well. Lockers for personal equipment are located adjacent to the dock/shore dive area, with a separate area to hang wetsuits. Large rinse tanks are available for post-dive use. There is an onsite dive shop which is reasonable stocked. Nitrox (32%) is available at $8 per tank. Diving is truly a 24 hour a day proposition here. The dive center also allows you to pick up tanks for shore dives at other sites. The boat diving is equally good, although the price you pay for diving freedom is responsibility for transporting your equipment to and from the boat, setting up and changing it. The dive briefings are adequate, and divemasters lead the dive for those desiring it. The divemasters are present, yet unobtrusive, and know where to find interesting critters (seahorses, nudibranchs, etc.). I dove the Mushroom Forest twice. It is a special place, and is worthy of several dives. Underwater photographers are assured of some excellent opportunities, particularly for macrophotography. Nudibranchs, seahorses, tube worms galore, orange cup coral, flamingo tongue snails, anemones with shrimp, crab etc. are all plentiful. Wide angle opportunities also abound for reef scenes, tube sponges, elephant ear sponges, black coral, turtles, etc. are also easy. Habitat Curacao is comfortable, but not luxurious. We stayed in a two bedroom "villa." Each room has its own bathroom with tub/shower. There is a lanai outside the bedrooms with a small refrigerator and cooktop with dishes, etc. for those wanting to prepare their own meals. The main complaint we had was ANTS (the small, nonstinging variety), and some mosquitoes in the evening. The restaurant is average. At times we felt were imposing on the waiters, although their attitude changed for the better when the manager was present. The Sunday night barbecue is probably the highlight. Breakfast was served buffet style, and was pretty good. But you had better be there at opening in order to make the 0830 dive boat departure. Curacao is a nice island for the non-diver as well. There are numerous excellent restaurants such as Fort Nassau, Bistro Le Clochard, and Astrolabe. The service at all is excellent, the food first rate, and the wine lists at least adequate to excelelnt. The shopping in downtown Willemstad will at least entertaing for an afternoon. Habitat Curacao provides free shuttle service into Willemstad, but I would recomment renting a four door pickup truck (particularly the full size Toyota HiLux). The rent is reasonable, and necessary if you plan on shore diving away from Habitat Curacao.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Grand Cayman, Southern Bahamas, Grand Bahama, Cay Sal Bank, Belize, Dominica, Bonaire, Maui, Big Island (Hawaii)
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm, choppy
Water Temp	81-84°F / 27-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	75-100 Ft/ 23-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Stay within recreational limits
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	Schools	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	Camera rinse tank on boat and dock, no real camera table on boat. Crew handled the cameras carefully and reminded other divers not to use the camera rinse tank to rinse their personal equipment (masks, etc.).

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Dive Review of Easy Divers/Habitat Curacao in Curaçao

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Dive Review of Easy Divers/Habitat Curacao in
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