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04/25/2008 Anon001 (Avg: 4.74 Review) - I thought this was by far the best dive site on the island, only one we went back to. Beautiful beach, gorgeous cliffs, great life. Beach has very uncomfortable beach chairs, sand is better! You do have to pay for showers which was annoying. Absolutely great dive - small wall, easy swim out.

03/29/2008 Marloes (Avg: 4.58 Review) - Beautiful beach with great diving! Both sides of the bay are worth a visit. In between two dives you can get a bite to eat at the beach-café. There's also a new dive centre with very nice people, good equipment and a great house reef! Made 4 great dives here.

12/27/2007 Renee Ross (Avg: 4.86 Review) - Our 2nd favorite site for shore diving Curacao (the first was Playa Kalki). Dive shop right on the beach where you can drive up to the hole in the fence at the dive shop and drop off your gear and park right close. Shop is run by the Marriott in Willemstedt and has a very nice staff. We rented our tanks there, cheaper again than Habitat, about $5.50 a tank. Beach charges $3 per chair, and there is a bar on the beach with good smoothies and food. French Fries were greasy though. Diving: Swam out to the drop-off, and headed 'right' at about 65 ft. Beautiful hard corals, small fish but plentiful. Watch out for current though. We had no current at first, but then noticed the soft corals swaying our direction and turned to find the current harder than we expected getting back to the beach entry area. Our son snorkeled there, too, and saw a stingray along the left shoreline. This beach is a beautiful place to spend the whole day. Uncrowded in early December and beautiful sand and the bluest water! We dove this site 2 days. A lady hit our rental car and ran off while we were out diving, and the dive shop personnel saw her and sent someone to her house to make her come back to fess up, which she did. She paid the damage directly to the rental car company. The dive shop has a very nice manager, and the shop has rinse tanks and tables you can use to suit up. And during surface intervals they let you put your gear in their storage room (an old railroad car).

10/02/2007 Joseph from Plumstead (Avg: 3.92 Review) - Great facilities and beach, easy entry and easy dive with good fish life and quality reef. Enter on right side, dive to left and return with gentle current back to right. Shape of and drop off of reef makes for easy underwater navigation.

03/19/2007 Andre Mazeron (Avg: 4.00 Review) - Beautiful beach, great for snorkeling or scuba. The reef is not as beautiful as Playa Kalki, but it was a great dive anyway. This beach is less crowded than most, and is really worth visiting. There's a dive gear rental on the beach, but don't count on them before 11:00AM.

05/20/2006 Anonymous (Avg: 4.67 Review) - I Love it!

02/17/2006 Cheddar Chicklet (Avg: 4.32 Review) - This is a great spot. Novice divers will be very comfortable here. A nice restaurant and facilities for dunking and showering and bathrooms. Cost for beach and 4 lounges was $7, and then you can buy tokens for showering, .25 cents. Easy beach entry and a short backstroke out to the reef over a sandy bottom and then down to the very healthy reef. Reef drops off to 100' quickly. No current and a very nice beach with all the perks make this a go-back spot.

01/14/2005 Anonymous (Avg: 4.47 Review) - Good spot to be!

10/19/2004 Marcio Bastos (Avg: 4.33 Review) - It's a good place to go on weekdays, since you will have a lot of umbrellas available. Easy entry and easy dive. The visibility was fine and my wife and I took beautiful pictures underwater. It's worth spending the rest of the day at the beach. Good facilities with a rinse tank by the restrooms.

10/14/2004 Pat Borowiak (Avg: 4.28 Review) - We took a diving boat from the Marriott to this location. We only snorkeled while everyone else dove. It was so lovely that we rented a car and went back by ourselves. After paying the small fee, you have a nice beach to relax on and get some food/drink. We drove to many other snorkeling spots, too. We found it nice to have facilities like this spot has, because the hot sun makes you crave a break from it once in a while. Snorkeling was good and then resting under a palpa in between snorkels at this spot was ideal.

09/25/2004 Dan Benson (Avg: 3.00 Review) - Entry is $9.00 a car load, and we didn't feel like paying that much, so didn't dive it. Other divers said good things about it.

07/29/2004 Gijs (Avg: 3.34 Review) - Very nice dive site, but mainly on the beach. The reef is very much damaged by Hurricane Lenny and the amount of divers. You have to swim a long way to find some undamaged corals.

04/06/2004 Jim Homan (Avg: 3.90 Review) - Sandy beach made entrance and exit very easy. Lots of people on the beach, including lots of snorkelers, but few of them were scuba divers, so we did not feel crowded underwater. Fish and invertebrates was typical of Curacao during early spring, including eels, angels, butterflies and hundreds of tube worms.

09/17/2003 RS Kuhn (Avg: 3.72 Review) - Entry fee required. Free showers, parking, bathroom, Food. Shade and a great beach. Do at least 2 dives here. A short swim to the dark blue water. A very good dive from a nice beach. Bring along or buy lunch and stay the day. 5 Min. swim to the reef.

08/07/2003 RobnKim (Avg: 5.00 Review) - Very nice dive and nice facilities, well worth the price of admission (about $6 US) 10 Nfl. We arrived at 9 AM and were some of the first people there. They probably 'open' about that time. Bring exact change if you're early. Garden eels directly out at about 110 feet. Lots of young fish, beautiful reef. Easy entry, and I felt no current. We were the only divers. The facilities include a bar (with snacks), shower and lots of beach with shady umbrellas.

11/17/2001 Kirk Peddicord (Avg: 4.35 Review) - A good novice dive site. One of my open water courses was here and it was great seeing a pair of seahorses on my first open water dive

07/24/2001 Fiona Rattray (Avg: 4.43 Review) - Topside is great for non-divers. Lots of little critters in the shallows, blennies, spotted morays, cleaner shrimp. A nice, quiet, meditative dive.

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