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If the flamingos in your yard still look like these,

then maybe it's time to fly south.....

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Oceanfront Studio Condominiums

Direct Owner Rentals of Unit  F17

at Sand Dollar Condominium Resort
 

Sand Dollar Dive Resort Video


Studio F-17 can be booked directly through David Colvard

 Raleigh, NC, USA

Special rate of US$125.00 per night January to June 2007*

 *Note:  Rates, room tax, and T.I.L. are subject to change without notice.  The above rate does NOT include a US$ 6.50 per person per night room tax and T.I.L. (Tourism Improvement Levy).

Telephone 919-782-1761 (home)

 919-781-3141 (office)

 Toll-Free 1-877-COLVARD

Fax 919-781-3141
E-Mail dfcolvard@bellsouth.net
 

Please note that this is not the official website for the Sand Dollar Condominium Resort. It is the website of an individual owner who is offering rental of his condominium and who is neither an official representative nor an official rental agent employed by the Sand Dollar Condominium Resort.


                      

Scuba Diving Magazine's 2007 Reader's Choice Awards are in.

 Bonaire Tops the Charts once again! 

First Place Awards:
TOP DIVE DESTINATION OVERALL
Healthiest Marine Environment • Top Shore Diving Destination
Top Destination for Underwater Photography

Second Place for:

Top Destination for Beginners -
Top Marine Life • Top Small Animal Encounters

Top Three for:
Top Snorkeling Destinations • Top Value

Top Five for:

Top Visibility • Top Destinations for Advanced Divers

                          

 


Studio Unit F-17 (2 adults/2 children under 12)
1 queen size wall bed and 1 queen size sofa-couch, ocean-view, ground floor,  fully equipped kitchen, spacious living room with dining area, quiet split unit air conditioner (not shown), private bathroom, cable TV, DVD/VCR, stereo CD player, No smoking.


David's Underwater Photos from Bonaire


Sunrise Restaurant
 

Sand Dollar guests and others now have a new poolside restaurant next to the tennis courts.

 


Fish Eye Photo opens new shop

Adjacent to the dive center, owned and operated by photo/video pro Tim Peters.

Fish Eye Photo recently opened a retail shop on the ground floor of the Den Laman building. right next to the BD&A diveshop. New features offered are: photo enlargement, store computers for Photo editing and Internet access, local art, video shoot on DVD, digital photo courses and extended sales.




 


LATEST NEWS!!! FREE NITROX for all.

Bonaire Dive & Adventure started with Free Nitrox upgrades for Sand Dollar Condominium Resort guests in November 2004, the other divers got a 50% discount on the old price for the upgrade. It was an overwhelming success. Now BD&A decided to offer FREE NITROX not only to Sand Dollar guests but to extend the offer to everybody who has a nitrox certification and buys an air package there! Nitrox courses start at $79 US for the PADI Discover Nitrox certification. 



 



New Pier


 



Bonaire Dive & Adventure
with its
new pier


Barracuda Club, the on-site restaurant at
Sand Dollar Condominium Resort

 

Bonaire Dive & Adventure
  The new adventure center, Bonaire Dive & Adventure is headed up by Andre Nahr, former managing director of Sand Dollar Dive & Photo and features many familiar faces from that operation. It is located at the south end of the property and features diving, diving instruction, snorkeling, kayaking, biking, nature tours and more. Ocean’s Classroom features fun and educational activities for kids 6-15. A new pier and guest gear storage area have been constructed in front of the operation. Outdoor lockers allow for convenient 24 hour access to your gear with a drive up tank pick up area. Bari reef, with several entrances directly in front of the resort has the largest variety of species diversity in the Caribbean according to the Reef Environmental Education Foundation (www.reef.org). The new pier allows direct access to the diving activities.
 

                                                 

Barefoot Internet Center:  Bonaire's only barefoot Internet and Chat center, 24 hour drive up wireless internet service (WiFi hot spot for your lap top), cheap phone calls, local crafts, gifts, rental cellular phones, sending and receipt of faxes, downloading digital images, scanning and copies, and a call and message center.  If you're barefoot and wet, then ask for a plastic chair!  Tell Michael that David sent you. 


Earn 2,000 Miles on Flights Between Newark Liberty and Bonaire.  Valid  Tue., Dec. 19, 2006 - Fri., Mar. 16, 2007.

Register using promotion code 51015 and fly by March 16, 2007, in order to earn bonus miles.

Terms and Conditions
This offer requires registration. All qualifying travel must be on flights for which you are earning OnePass miles. Only nonstop flights to/from Newark Liberty (EWR) and Bonaire (BON) are eligible for bonus miles. Eligible classes of service are C, D, Z, R, Y, H, K, N, B, O, V, U, Q, I,, S, W, T, X or L. Please allow 6- 8 weeks for bonus miles to post to your OnePass account. All terms and conditions of the OnePass program apply, including Continental's right to modify or terminate the OnePass program.

Continental’s scheduled round-trip air service departs NewarkLibertyInternationalAirporton Saturdays at 11:55 p.m., arriving in Bonaireon Sundays at 5:40 a.m. (flight #1553).  The return flight #1556 departs Bonaire on Sundays at 7:00 a.m., arriving into Newarkat 10:45 a.m.  After Daylight Savings Time begins in spring 2007 the flight will arrive in Bonaire on Saturdays at 4:40 a.m. and depart the island on Sundays at 6:00 a.m. (arrival and departures times from Newarkwill remain the same).  For this flight Continental Airlines is using a Boeing 737-700 airplane with 124 seats including 12 first class and 112 coach class seats. 


American Eagle

Effective January 9, 2007, American Eagle will resume daily service to Bonaire.  It currently offers five roundtrip flights from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Bonaire each week.  Flights leave San Juan Puerto Rico at 6:50 p.m. and arrive on Bonaire at 8:55 p.m. On the return trip to San Juan, flights depart Bonaire at 7:10 a.m. and arrive San Juan at 9:20 a.m.


The Departure Tax Fee for Those Departing Bonaire by International Air to increase January 1, 2007.

It was decided by the Island Council of Bonaire on December 18, 2006 that the current departure tax, called the PFC (Passenger Facility Charge) will be raised for those departing Bonaire to other international destinations by air.  Effective January 1, 2007, this fee will now be FL 57.60 or USD $32.00 per person.  Consistent with current practices, Bonaire International Airport, N.V. will collect the fee at the airport tax booth.  


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2006 Island Map of Bonaire



 

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Dee Scarr

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F-17 is also for sale by owner. 

List price:  US$195,000

Contact owner for more information.

  dfcolvard@bellsouth.net     or call 919-782-1761

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