Caradonna AdventuresReviews of caradonna.com

1st, the Allegro Cozumel was fine. The rooms were comfortable and well air-conditioned and I was surprised what the "all inclusive" included. Not only 3 buffet meals per day plus other restaurant options but unlimited alcohol as well. My wife was also pleased with the included kayaks and the really nice beach. My issue was the dive shop. This place, ProDiver, is supposedly a 5 star PADI dive shop. It is run primarily by non-divers. The boats have seen better days and are small. There is no room on the boats to put your gear and both tanks for the morning or afternoon 2 tank dies forcing you to put on wetsuits prior to boarding with only your kit. No matter the boat you are on, they have to motor over to another dock to get your 1st tank. After the 1st dive you return to that dock to exchange the tanks. This makes for a lot of travel back and forth and wasted time. This is the 1st time I got on a boat and the captain did not say a word to anyone. The deckhands are not divers and can do little more than help you on and off with your stuff, so your guide is also your only rescue diver. One deckhand opened my air valve so hard that I could not close it. It became evident to me why I was taught you always open the valve full and close a quarter turn so that does not happen. Not a good experience. Other than the poor boat experience, both guides were good. The diving sites were crowded due to many many other dive boats on site so you have to pay attention to your guide. It would be easy to accidently join up with another group. And you have to be extra careful when surfacing due to the high boat traffic and what looked to me like a high percentage of inexperienced and sometimes aggressive boat captains. Bring your own towels, they are not provided nor were any kind of paper towel. One boat was too small for a head and would let you off on the dock for a restroom break during the tank exchange. And last but not least at the end of your dive experience the dive shop could not provide a printout of your dives for your logbook because they do not have a printer. Not a place I would go back to.

Recent booking to Bonaire. Spelled our name wrong several times. The week we were leaving we were told the pool was being torn up. Not enough notice to change plans. My wife is a non diver it was important to her.At check in I thought they could offer a room up grade or some kind of compensation but were unwilling to do so.Plaza Resort could have made us feel less deceived. Large resorts plan pool replacements . Caradonna should have been on top of this.

When it came to booking the dives, it was not well handled. Received conflicting info from the resort and the agent.

i just returned from a diving trip in nassau, bahamas. i was staying at the breezes all inclusive resort and diving with stuart coves. tips were also included except for the diving, which is standard operating procedure. the diving was great with plenty of great sharks and wrecks to enjoy. and the dive people were very help[ful, thank you! the package also included roundtrip transfer from the airport to hotel and from the hotel to the airport on departure, provided through dan knowles tours. dan knowles tours got half of their obligation correct. that was upon arrival. however, after calling and trying to confirm a pickup time two days prior to departure, i and the hotel assistant (shonte, great gal) tried to connect with the dan knowles tours company and it was as if they did not exist. i ended up getting a cab. DO NOT USE DAN KNOWLES TOURS, UNRELIABLE! the breezes property was very nice and accommodating, good food, great pools and excellent nightly entertainment. i did find that being a single ,nondrinker of alcohol appeared to alienate me from the staff when it came to getting water and silverware. i was also solicited by housekeeping on the morning of my departure in my room , to make sure that i leave a tip. (all tips except diving were included) i didnt appreciate that. all in all not a bad trip. got to love traveling! God bless

The first time I visited the Ocho Rios Riu it was beautiful, the second time it was not the same. It is not somewhere I would stay at again, I made the best of it, seeing it was my family reunion. They mixed up the rooms WiFi’s I spent every day trying to straighten out my WiFi. They did not have enough washcloth so we had to wait until they did laundry, when you called the front desk the operator was rude, she would let you know they are not in until 9:15 and hang up the phone. Let’s just say that is not somewhere I would stay again. My daughter found a cockroach in her ackee she never ate there any more she went off the compound to eat her meals.

Don't like being used as a ginnie pig to try our a new location that they never sent anyone too.... This put a bad lite on my company.......