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Despite the high ratings, I do not think the diving school deserves 5 …
Despite the high ratings, I do not think the diving school deserves 5 stars in my experience. This is for a number of reasons:
I took a refreshment dive ($105) because I hadn’t dived in over 1 year. Sometimes I felt ‘stupid’ if I didn’t remember certain things or if I had questions. For example: When our diving instructor brought water to the boat, I asked if I could also buy a bottle of water. The response was that ‘the diving instructor is not going to drink all the water himself’. In other words: the feeling that I should not ask silly questions.
The two dives during the course were fantastic and we came across a giant puffer fish. However, my diving instructor found it necessary to pinch the puffer fish’s tail… this is no respect in my opinion.
My diving instructor had a GoPro and took a lot of cool photos! I could buy all the photos for $20 or nothing. There was no room for negotiation, I did it because there were some really cool photos. After I bought the photos it looked like my dive instructor’s shift was over. I had a few more questions but I got the feeling that I shouldn’t ask anything more…
They also charged $20 for the taxi ride to and from the diving school. So I paid $145 for everything. Even though it was my own choice to pay for this, many diving schools charge an all-in price so I think its quit expensive for the experience they gave me.
In short: high price and no warm welcome feeling. This is not a diving philisophy I am used to. Hopefully they weren’t having their day. – via