Thought I would stop by and find out more about this this place. The Lady at the gift shop was very unfriendly to my kids and other visitors. We had no food nor drinks and my kids were well behaved, just curious to look around their gift shop. Every visitor was greeted with you can't do this, don't do that.... More

This was in my bucket list. The overall experience was awesome, the fact was that we took the manned underwater laboratory specialty program. This program requires the aquanaut specialty program, which mean we were kept busy during our 24 hour stay. I read about the La Chalupa in the past and it was great to stay in a place were... More

I didn't stay at the lodge, so my review is mostly for diving experience here. Just surprised by the positive reviews, since my experience was almost the opposite -- there was just not much to see in the water here, besides a few fish and underwater lodge entrance. Very little visibility otherwise, the bottom was mostly covered by algae of... More

We were looking for a hotel to stay during our visit to Key Largo and we figured we would check this out before we booked anywhere because it looked really cool! We stopped by the hotel and weren't exactly sure where to go and we ended up at the gift shop. We had never been to Key Largo and we... More

I first heard of the lodge 5-6 years ago and when the opportunity came to visit it in Key Largo, we took it. I'm a fairly experienced diver but my two adult kids, who came with me, are qualified but inexperienced. There was no issues for any of us with the diving and there shouldn't be for novices (I'm a... More

We had never been diving before so we did the discover dive which taught you the basics of scuba diving. The instructor was very patient and had a great sense of humor, too. After we got down to the hotel we took a hot shower(the water pressure 30 ft down is amazing). Then they delivered our dinner & clean clothes.... More