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The house reef is nice, but if you want something different, then you can book other diving trips additionally. And these are quite pricey sometimes. The biggest problem is the large number of 8 divers per guide. At Elphinstone, one of our dives completely changed into chaos, because if 4 of the 8 divers go their own way and storm to the depth, the rest is also affected. And despite the promise of 60 minutes of dive time, the 2 of us had to abort our dive after 41 minutes because the rest had emptied their cylinders. And that half failed dive has cost us 30 euros. The day to Dolphin House was fun, and really beautiful sites. On another dive we met dolphins on the way back and they took the time to look at them. The guides are fine, but with large groups you don't start anything if half of them decide to do something else. No guide can do that. But slightly smaller groups would be nice.
Another point of interest and what you only have when you come for the very first time is the first day of diving. You pay for unlimited house reef diving, but that first day is not really unlimited. You have a briefing at 9 o'clock which is mandatory for newcomers (and preferably people who have been there before). If you have been there before you can have a dive before this briefing, but if you come for the first time you have to make 2 guided dives. And the first of those is at 11 am after the briefing and the second at 2 am. So despite the fact that you pay for unlimited diving, the first day of unlimited diving is a big disappointment. We made 2 and sometimes 3 dives of 75-90 minutes before lunch. Here they should apply more of a "you ask, we turn" principle. That people who want to dive fanatically should already have made the 2 obligatory dives in the morning.
(Automatically translated from Dutch)