ckwatson;319914 wrote: Im looking at some of the sandals places. Maybe St lucia or Antigua. Does any know if the diver is good at either of these places. We are looking for a place that will be a good honeymoon and have some diving. So we would like a nice room and food and good beaches as well as a couple good dives.
My wife and I went to Sandals in St. Lucia last summer...here are some pics
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Page 6 has some dive boat shots. I was hoping to rent an underwater camera there but no luck...take my advice, buy or rent one here and take one with you...We saw so much diverse life, too much to describe here, and I did not get one shot!
Diving was very good. The resort dive boats and masters are very good and extra safe. Don't expect any deep dives from the standard resort dives, I mean more than 70 feet. My wife and I are both certified, she took a resort refresher for $45 and I took my advanced open water cert while I was there for $300. We went with another couple who had never been diving and they both got resort cert for $45 and we were all diving day 2 or 7 - and all diving is included! cert divers get the typical 2 dives per day, resort cert divers get 1 dive per day.
We stayed at the Halcyon Resort. It was very nice, kinda older, but a bit cheaper then the Grand St. Lucian, however if I were younger and going on my Honeymoon I would definitely stay at the Grand. It is one of the most beautiful resorts we have ever been to...and I have stayed at some nice places! Bte, you can stay at any of the 3 resorts and eat/play at all three but the Grand is by far the nicest and being there would be more convenient.
The food is very good, not what I expected for an all inclusive. You can got to any Sandals restaurants (14 I think)...and you just order away...no id checks, no reservations needed, and all the alcohol is included as well! The one restaurant I did not care for was a Japanese Steak House, but that was a coin flip anyway...What were we thinking!
One other thing we did while we were there was a zip-line through the rain forest...very cool!
Good luck and Congrats! Feel free to pm me if you have any more ?'s
-Chris
