My son and I live in Virginia Beach, Virginia. We decided to take a trip to Fort Lauderdale to do a night dive with South Florida Diving Headquarters in December 2022. When I made the reservation, I was told that with only my son and myself diving, they would be unable to guarantee are dive unless we signed up for renting all our gear through them as well as hiring a personal dive instructor through their organization. They told us that as long as we spent $500 with their organization, they could guarantee a boat for us and with us flying Allegiant Air and staying overnight, they realized we needed a solid reservation (outside of weather risks). We fly down, drove from the airport the 45 minute drive to where they are located. Upon our arrival they told us that they had decided to cancel our dive and forgot to tell us. When I inquired as to why they decided to cancel our dive after confirming it the week before we left and they knew we were travel a long distance, they claimed they never told us there was a $500 minimum. They said the minimum was $700!
I would have never traveled to a night dive for that amount however, since we were there we asked them to consider lowering the price some since they decided to cancel last minute and also they forgot to even let us know. The owner refused to budge.
They clearly have no integrity as a dive shop. Use them at your own risk!!
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