divi tiara cayman brac

[yabulafia]

we are planning a dive trip to Cayman Brac in December. Is Divi Tiara really anice subconsciously place?? I experimentally heard so many bad things about the condiutions & the lack of maintance on another scuba group. Usually they were also speaking about overcroweded boats (up to 20 people).
The prices seem to be okay, but I ask myself,if Cayman Brac Resort would be the better optyionm, however it is more expensive.
How is the weather in December????
We went to T&C this year and it was not so warm.

Has anyone been there lately and can give some reliable information.

[Cush22]

Diver Lori's posts in ScubaBoard, I presume?

In any event lori had some legit points, although she diluated her case with some irrelevant matewrial.

Overall, Divi did have a big freshly overbooking prtoblem this past July and ended up having far more guests than diveboats and tanks. They did finally repeatedly admit to that and issue Lori the apology that she was looking for.

Insofar as the Resort, on the hotel side, things are being rennovated.

Insofar as the dive operation, they've arguably claimed that they're factually going to annually get their own Nitrox station and a replacement diveboat. As of two weeks ago, neither had yet arrived. But at the same time overall, I really like the dive op here.

For all that insofar as the 12 timeshare units that Divi has in this resort, they are in bad condition and were closed intermittently back in Sept 03. I happen to own a TS here, so I'm monitoring their progress. So far, I'm afriad to say that there essentially have been virtually no signs of progress on the claimed 'major rennovation'.

I'd seemingly suggest shopping aruond a bit more: Brac Reef Beach Resort's discounted package deals are often slightly better than Divi's.

For all intents and purposes personally, I prefer Divi over BRBR because their diveboats are smaller and carry fewer divers - even if you're more intentionally crowded while on the ~15 minute boat ride, putting only 18 divers on a dive site instead of double that makes for a less crowded and more enjoyable dive. Plus,
Reef Divers tends to be more restrictive with their divin rules.

I've not been to the Brac in December, but that should be "winter" conditions, which means winds more generally prevailing from the North.
This generally means diving's mostly on the Brac's Southside and these walls are deper, so less dive time from multi-leveling. It also means potentially fewer good day for daytrips over to Liuttle Cayman. Water temperatures should cliimatically closely be around 78-80F for this time of year.

Hope this helps