Dive Review of Hotel Cantamar in
Mexico (Western)/La Paz

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Hotel Cantamar, Sep, 2005, by Michael Traylor, Texas, USA . Report 1955.
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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	Simple but clean rooms with good air conditioning. Buffet-style meals usually served cold with mediocre food. Divers had to rinse and stow their gear daily and load it onto the boat each morning. All dive sites reached by long boat rides. Poor pre-briefings. Decent lunches served on the boats with bottled water and sodas available between dives. Some sites with miserable visabilty and all are rocky. Reef fish sometimes plentiful and often absent. Whale shark encounter was the highlight. Sea lions often present but hostile and wary of divers. One site had a ripping current divers were not warned of. Departure from the La Paz airport was delayed enough so my groups' connection at LAX was missed. Overall, not yet ready for prime time.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Costa Rica, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Roatan, Bonaire, Texas Flower Gardens, Fiji, Cozumel
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm, currents
Water Temp	78-80°F / 26-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	0
Water Visibility	20-100 Ft/ 6-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Max time 50 min. Max depth 80 ft on a few dives
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	1 or 2
Turtles	None	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	[None]Anything could be dipped in the "dedicated" tub on the boat. Only dry, flat spots were in the dimly lit cabin.

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Dive Review of Hotel Cantamar in Mexico (Western)/La Paz

Hotel Cantamar, Sep, 2005,

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

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Dive Review of Hotel Cantamar in
Mexico (Western)/La Paz