Buddy Dive Resort

Buddy Dive is focused on the scuba experience and seems great at that. We rented some equipment and asked for some referrals and they were great. The hotel part of it could use some updating. The rooms are nice and spacious, and we had a nice balcony overlooking gardens and a sea view. Unfortunately we didn't spend much time there because the building that holds a giant generator made so much noise it wasn't pleasant. The generator doesn't run all the time, and we noticed that the noise didn't reach some of the other areas of the resort. The rooms have actual keys, not key cards, and the key has your room number on it so if you loose it anyone who finds it has easy access to your room. Likewise the safe key. Our housekeeper, Jacqueline was wonderful. There are two pools, both pretty small. There is a fancier restaurant and a shore-side bar with food. The food at the restaurant was good, especially the salt-encased roast dorado. The wait staff was wonderful, especially Natania. The bar food was fine-pretty standard bar food. The Friday barbecue was awful. There is free wi-fi, but I kept getting security notices from Apple that it was not a secure network.

I've done a lot of traveling and this trip to Bonaire was by far my favorite. Fantastic food wherever we went and gorgeous landscapes. I will be going back next year for an even longer stay.

House reef was good. Food options were limited but good. Clean. No complaints.

Buddy's will cater to your diving needs. Beautiful peaceful location, friendly staff, and excellent food. All facilities and boats are modern and comfortable. Only downside is moderate number of mosquitos, and no screens. So, either kill every mosquito in your room or wear repellant to bed.

Well maintained hotel with own pier. Rooms are large, comfortable, clean. We are snorkelers. There is a lot of fish here, right off the pier. Highly recommend taking water taxi to Klein Bonaire and exploring island and boat trips with divers. We also liked catamaran snorkeling trip with Woodward (?) company, located in the Flamingo Divi resort. All these trips were arranged from Buddy Dive resort by divers shop staff. Bonaire is an island mostly for divers. Corals on the shallow places were mostly ruined by hurricanes couple years ago. So there is a lot of fish but not always good corals.

We hadn't been diving in awhile and wanted to go back to Bonaire. It was our first trip to Buddy Dive Resort. The resort is perfect for those who like to make their own schedule. As for the staff, some understand the need for personality; others not so much. Over all they were very helpful.

Buddy Dive staff was terrific and the dive & snorkeling sites, sea life, dive masters, boats and equipment were first class! Will definitely go back again...

Dive shop attendees had bad attitudes, allowed inexperienced divers too close to coral, fins and lack of control damaged coral. Night diving was a joke. Area too cloudy to see anything but debris. Charged $100.00 for 1/2 hour. The food was mediocre at best. Service... incompetent. They did transfer us rooms when we complained about the ants, air conditioner dripping into the electrical outlet, shower leaking into bathroom. They were gracious about that. Electricity went out 3 times in 6 days. To rent a car..... they said they didn't have a truck available as it was going into service. The next excuse was that "their server was down". They finally gave us a van the next afternoon for the price of a truck... which was nice.

Diving is well organized including boat dives and shore dives. Excellent dive resort!

Everything great for divers. The only problem-have to kill mosquitos in the bedroom before you go to sleep. Window screens would help.