Belize

[Clifonef]

My family and I went for Christmas week plus a couple of days.  We dove with Seahorse in Placencia and Hamanasi in Hopkins.  We ended up diving pretty close to the same place, pretty much due east from Hopkins.  Were I doing it over again with my family, I'd have done it all from Hopkins for the shorter boat ride.  The divemasters at Hamanasi were good (attentive to our needs and good at locating stuff we'd have missed).  If I were doing it by myself, I'd go with the liveaboard to maximize the diving time.  I toured the Aggressor and it looked well designed and maintained. The disadvantage of the liveaboard is that you will never meet the Garifuna people.