Bonaire Workshop July 13-20: July 13 - 20, 2013

Bonaire, located just north of Venezuela in the ABC Islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao) is an underwater photographer's playground. Bonaire's gently sloping dive sites have prolific life in as little as 10 ft of water. Most sites are easily accessible from shore, allowing divers to set their own schedule, and stay as long as they wish. This convenience and flexibility makes Bonaire the perfect place to get to know a new underwater camera system, or fine tune your skills!   Accommodations are provided at Roomer Hotel, a small elegant hotel located in a quiet area south of Kralendjik and minutes from some of the best dive sites on Bonaire. We have reserved the entire property for our group. Rooms are comfortably appointed with air conditioning, flat screen tv, comfortable beds, and free wifi internet. Daily buffet breakfast is included at Roomer's on site pool side restaurant. The trip advisor reviews for Roomer are quite impressive. We love the family atmosphere! Tanks for shore diving are provided by Belmar Apartment's Dive Shop, which is directly across the street from Roomer. An excellent shore dive is also available at Belmar, as well as unlimited tanks for shore diving, and acccess to the shore diving and drive through tank station at Buddy Dive. Our staff will provide five daily 1-2 hour afternoon presentations ranging from can't miss dive sites to underwater photo techniques. One on one critiques and gear support are available as needed.    In addition to great diving, Bonaire has an unusually great selection of restaurants for a small island. Going with an all inclusive plan would be criminal here. We've planned group dinners at several of Bonaire's finest establishments thanks to years of local experience from our inside man Bruce Zavon.    Trips to the more remote sites in Washington-Slagbaai National Park and the windward "Wild Side" of the island are possible for a small extra fee.    Each room includes a four door pickup truck, allowing access to Bonaire's marked shore dive sites at your leisure. Dive when you want, where you want, and spend as much time as you'd like with your subjects! Pricing: $1195 Double Occupancy $1595 Single Occupancy Trip Includes: 7 Nights Accomodation at Roomer Hotel Daily Breakfeast at Roomer's On-Site Restaurant Unlimited Shore Diving (Air or Nitrox) Four Door Pickup Truck Rental Daily Imaging Presentations One on One Technical and Technique Support Not Included: Airfare Boat Dives (available at $60 ea, on demand) Lunch & Dinner Bonaire Marine Park Tag ($25) Register for this workshop here Getting to Bonaire: From North America there are various ways to get to Bonaire, with many direct flights.  All of this is of course subject to change, so please check directly with the airlines. Delta flies direct Saturday from Atlanta, leaving around 9 am and arrives about 2 pm and leaves 3 pm, back around 7 pm. http://www.delta.com/ United flies direct Friday night at midnight from Newark and Houston; both are redeye's so arrive Bonaire early Saturday about 5 am and leave about 7 am.  United often has an extra flight which leaves Houston midnight Saturday, arrives Sunday am and leaves Sunday am.  www.united.com Insel Air flies Saturday from Miami direct to Bonaire and returns Saturday with a stopover in Curacao, but no change of planes.  www.fly-inselair.com There are a number of airlines that fly from Miami to Curacao every day of the week (American, Insel, Dutch Antilles Express) and from here you can make a 30 minute flight to Bonaire on DAE, Insel and Divi Divi.  Please allow time to collect your bags in Curacao, as these may not necessarily be booked straight through.  It's also possible to fly from many cities in the US on many different airlines to Aruba, and take Insel (Curacao stopover) or Tiara Air (non-stop) to Bonaire. http://www.aa.com/ http://flydae.com/ http://flydivi.com/ http://www.tiara-air.com/ From Europe their are direct flights to Bonaire from Amsterdam every day on KLM and on Thursdays and Saturdays on Arkefly.  Some KLM flights have a stopover in Aruba, Curacao or St. Maarten.  Air Berlin flies direct from Dusseldorf to Curacao http://klm.com/ http://www.arkefly.nl http://www.airberlin.com/ Additional helpful information can be found here: http://www.infobonaire.com/airlineinfo.html

Comments

[George Lee]

Hello, what are the itineraries on the 7/13 and 7/20? I am checking with United and they have very limited flights and arrives Sat, Jul 13, 04:36 AM.

Departs Sat, Jul 20, 06:00 AM

Will that work?