Warren

Regarding Den Laman: We stayed in the oceanfront ‘Grouper’ room. Liked the bedroom set ups, kitchen, bathrooms, big patio facing the ocean, TV, and Wi-Fi. Check in went well and Dive Friends set up went well. Convenient switch out of tanks several times a day. Good equipment storage area between dives and close to a really good dive pier at Bari Reef.

A few things to make note of: Grouper room is on the side of the resort facing ‘CoCo’ next door. Friday and Saturday nights and when a cruise ship is in port gets obnoxiously loud. Heavy base music turned way up for hours. I complained to the front desk and they said they couldn’t do anything until later at night if it kept going on. Thankfully it ended by 10 PM. Gave me a headache two different days. I won’t go back to stay in a room on that side of the resort again and will consider other resorts.

·Dive friends really needs to maintain the o rings on their tanks. Lots of o rings leaked when first tightened up (more than a third). We got to the point we just hooked up our reg set when checking tanks to avoid a leaker and brought a small set of rings and a pic with us to switch out sometimes.

·Breeze n Bites was okay for breakfast and that came with the package. We tried dinner twice and it was so so and relatively pricey. We ended up hitting other places for lunches and dinners. The little places along the sea wall in town for lunch and either Buddy’s or Habitat for dinner typically.

Regarding the diving: My younger son just came off a cold and struggled to get equalized. We kept it shallower for him for some dives and went on a few deeper dives w/o him (Bari and Salt Pier in particular). They took lots of pictures. Lots of arrow crabs, morays, queen angels, spotted drum and other beautiful/strange animals. Got lucky and met a huge cubera snapper. Dove every night for even better pics and fed the tarpons with our lights. The shallow elk horn reef and old fishing pier near Den Laman were great sites. Water clarity and weather were perfect.