Dive Review of Sam's Tours/Sunrise Villas in
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Sam's Tours/Sunrise Villas, Mar, 2003, by John and Sandra Quick, MI, USA . Report 682.
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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	Incredible diving. First time we could say visibility restricted by huge quantities of fish. Hundreds of Pyramid butterflies, Potters Angels, Bicolor Angels, Moorish Idols, etc. Lots of sharks. No need for a shark feeding here. The Large Napoleon Wrasse are a hoot. They would hang with you effortlessly in the current. Almost every dive was a drift dive. Occasionally we would use a reef hook to hang out at a given spot to watch the sharks and Napoleon Wrasse and other large pelagics. We dove with Sam's Tours. They picked our group of 8 up at the Sunset Villas every morning for a 15-20 minute ride to the shop/docks. Our three tank a day dive trip included a box lunch. The lunch/surface interval was done on a beach of one of the "Rock Islands". A highlight in and of itself was speeding through these beautiful formations. It made an otherwise long boat ride (an hour each way) a treat, though we might not have felt that way if the weather were bad and seas rough. Guides were personable and flexible about dive times. No pressure to get back to the dock by 5pm. One day we did an afternoon snorkel at Jellyfish Lake. Definately worthwhile to say you've done it. Another 'extra' one day was a 15 foot 20 minute dive at "Clam City" to look at the colorful mantles of the Tridacna clams. Sam's gets a B+ from us. We would go back. Sunset Villas had large clean rooms. No great place to put our dive gear. We were not on the beach but then they did have a nice pool area and we never seemed to have time for hanging out after diving all day. Food and service at Sunset Villa okay.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Hawaii, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos, Bonaire, Belize, Roatan, and assorted other places in the Caribbean
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	79-80°F / 26-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	5
Water Visibility	70-100 Ft/ 21-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Profile recommended and we followed it because of the currents.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	1 or 2	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	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Sam's Tours/Sunrise Villas in Micronesia/Palau

Sam's Tours/Sunrise Villas, Mar, 2003,

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Dive Review of Sam's Tours/Sunrise Villas in
Micronesia/Palau