Divers understand it. It’s a type of resorts they talk about in a reverent tone, a spot that has mastered the artwork.
It’s set on a glowing patch of Caribbean Sea on the western coast of Bonaire, simply throughout the water from Klein Bonaire, a haven for divers and aquatic fans the world over.
Plainly, the 73-room resort is a Caribbean basic. However it’s not simply the perfect dive resort in Bonaire, a world-class scuba vacation spot that’s house to greater than 80 dive websites. The Buddy Dive Resort is the perfect dive resort within the Caribbean.
In case you’re a diver, this resort is tailored for you.
There’s all the things right here: a full-service dive-center, a five-star PADI Profession Growth Heart; a home reef that’s accessible 24-7; an exercise middle; its personal automobile rental fleet (together with pickup vans made for exploring Bonaire’s unmatched shore diving).
That’s together with high-end dive tools to hire; a technical diving facility; and a fleet of six totally different dive boats.
After which there’s the drive-thru air and nitrox middle — an providing pioneered by the resort that has put the diving expertise on the core of its operation.
However an excellent dive resort isn’t simply in regards to the diving itself. It needs to be a well-run, well-executed, pleasant place to remain.
And that’s what you get at Buddy Dive: a variety of apartment-style models from studios to three-bedrooms, all with air-conditioned bedrooms, kitchens, residing areas and both balconies or porches overlooking Bonaire blue or inexperienced gardens.
There are two pretty on-site eateries; a every day breakfast buffet, every day housekeeping, a children and exercise middle; a pair of swimming pools and two raised sandy seashores.
In different phrases, even in case you’re not a diver, you’d endlessly take pleasure in this resort, a quiet, serene oasis within the Dutch Caribbean — the mark of the final word dive resort.
The resort has for years been doing a serious half to offer again, not simply to assist preserve however truly restore the world beneath the waves.
Greater than a decade in the past, the resort launched what was, on the time, a landmark program to revive coral reefs within the waters off Bonaire’s price. Within the 10 years since, a whole lot of resorts within the Caribbean have adopted their lead.
As a result of there’s nothing fairly like Buddy Dive — a resort that simply retains getting higher — each beneath and above the water.
To be taught extra, go to Buddy Dive.
