Diving school was fine, (most bottles are international, Din connection is less available)
Only minus point, but unfortunately no one can do anything about that, is the state of the reefs.
Due to high temperatures and disease, almost all hard coral is dead, what is left is infected and will be dead in days/weeks as well. Very sad to see.
All the life that depends on this either will migrate away or die.
What you see happening now is that there is a lot of algae growth, this combined with the high temperatures of the water, the algae, it is expected, will threaten the remaining life.

We still had some nice dives, but if we had been 1 year earlier they would have been very much nicer, the speed at which the reefs are dying is really shocking and gave a dark edge to our vacation.

Hope they can still turn it around and treat the reefs, planting etc. But realistically, Bonaire is no longer a paradise for an experienced diver.

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Dive Friends Bonaire is top notch!
Always time for a chat. The different locations on the island make it easy to swap bottles smoothly.

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Good service, nice explanation, all looks taken care of. Friendly staff.
Good equipment at Dive friends Bonaire

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6 places to change your bottles, no queuing. Top

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I have been coming to Dive Friends at Hamlet for 10 years.
Always a nice chat and a cup of coffee. However, this year no coffee and the coziness was far from it. Snappy staff this year.
No idea what is going on with them.
Hope next year it will be like old times.

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Trusted diving school. dived with them more often. bottles are well stocked. participated in a boat dive this year. Well organized good guide

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professional and friendly base
bottle change fine
boat dives: good captain and dive guides

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Also tanks with DIN connection = perfect.
Friendly service.

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Very friendly, super helpful, top notch team!

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Friendly people, very nice and helpful. Were also with this organization in 2013 and the service is still great.

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Very disappointed ; asked for 6kg of lead and got half ; little service ;
bottles are accessible and self-service

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not the first time here, (8th time) but they are really way too busy... which doesn't help the service or the motivation of the staff....

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Too little nitrox with DIN connection

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Dive Friends has several locations scattered around the island. Here you can exchange your empty scuba tanks quite easily. The staff is very helpful and the service is good. The location of Dive Friends which is next to the Seaside apartments seems to be mostly focused on novice divers. As an experienced diver, it is better to make your own plan in our opinion. We made 2 boat dives with Dive Friends on little Bonaire. The chosen dive sites seemed to be geared towards the group of mostly novice divers and were unfortunately less spectacular than hoped for. We were able to make more beautiful dives from the shore. The boat and equipment were otherwise fine.

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Service from the dive friends at the various locations was certainly good, tips for dive sites and times, and what to look out for were very welcome. The equipment (tanks and weights) is easy to maintain, and the change of bottles at the various locations is well organized. Regarding the boat dive, we specifically asked for small Bonaire, but the dives were at Secret Garden and Small Wall.

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Fine dive center, you are well served!
Good quality/price ratio.


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Dive Friends is a somewhat larger organization and has several locations on the island. Changing bottles was very easy because of this. The locations we visited also had very friendly and helpful staff.

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Great team. Very helpful. Next time I will use their services again.

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Maybe not washing cars on the boss's time, but filling the empty bottles
Furthermore, good service and advice

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Long waiting times, no more extras possible. We would have liked to make boat dives: not possible. night dive also ridiculously expensive

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Good club to rent stuff and get advice. Nice and simple and think in solutions. Professionally run. TOP!

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Professionally set up, many locations, friendly and relaxed staff. What is noticeable is that almost no staff from bonaire itself works there.

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Not always the right tank connection available and then you had to buy an adapter. They should have made this available.
Otherwise friendly and helpful. Tanks were filled quickly.

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In the high season and with the increasing number of tourists, some dive sites (e.g. Hilma Hooker) are very busy in the morning.
Here you should be flexible and switch to one of the other dive sites (over 60 available).
Often diving in the afternoon is also an option as there is less going on then.
For dusk and night dives Salt Pier is a good choice. Here, the permanent illumination of the conveyor makes it easy to find your way around.

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Dive sites are all very easy to find. Yellow stone with name and off you go,
Offshore diving is sometimes a challenge it is not so easy to get through the rocks / reef edges into deeper water or out again with full dive equipment. Here a good buddy team is very much in demand.
The Divefriends dive center has been very accommodating and also very fair in certain matters. A big thumbs up here. Very friendly and helpful. The boat dives were all good. All around a really good holiday.

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With 64 Shore dive sites and 26 more around Klein Bonaire, everyone will find something to suit them.
In the afternoon sun the wreck of the Hilma Hooker shines in a unique light.

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