Dive Review of
Wakatobi Dive Resort in
Indonesia/Sulawesi

PNG, Australia, Red Sea, Mexico, Florida, California, Mid-Atlantic

Dive Conditions

Boat dives - 70 minutes. Shore dives, no limits. No solo diving except for
Instructors with specific permission from the dive coordinator.  

Dedicated air-conditioned camera room with plentiful power strips. Boats
had both a camera table and a fresh water camera tank.  

Overall Rating

It's hard to find anything to gripe about at Wakatobi. The service and food
were top-rate. Meals are in a new restaurant, with chefs brought in from
Bali. The restaurant has a dedicated pastry room. Meals are buffet style,
and the food is plentiful and varied.

Accomodations are in roomy and well-appointed bungalows. The beach
bungalows can get a bit hot in the afternoons. The garden bungalows are in
some shade, but still have a view of the water. Bungalows on the south end
get an almost constant breeze.

Shore dives available any time of the day or night. Daily scheduled boat
dives: two-tank after breakfast and on-tank in the afternoon (unless your
boat is scheduled for a night dive). If you want to go somewhere else on
the 5-mile stretch of house reef, just ask one of the staff to take you
there in a "taxi" boat and drop you.

The staff watches while you're in the water, and assists with cameras and
other gear. Don't even think about carrying your own camera to the water or
boat.

Choice of cylinders: 80cu ft or 100 cu ft (11 or 13 litres), with either
DIN or youke valve. Nitrox is available, but only EAN32.

They have an O2 booster, and will cater to Rebreather divers, but only if
those divers bring their own cylinders.

Dive briefings are good and thorough, and the dive guides exhibit excellent
knowledge of the marine life and its conservation.

During my 10 days there, we saw all three species of Pygmy Sea Horse,
Mandarin fish, many many Hawksbill Turtles. Also unusual animals like
Cuttlefish, Leaf Scorpionfish, and Ghost Pipefish.

I've already booked my next trip there! 

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