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Bilikiki, Jun, 2006, by Brian Morrow, GA, USA ( Sr. Contributor 21 reports with 9 Helpful votes). Report 2844 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
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Comments	Let me start with the fact that this was an outstanding trip and we are going back in 2008. The weather for our 12 night trip was mostly cloudy although a couple on the previous charter indicated that the weather on that trip was sunny. Sun would have been nice for the photo ops but you cannot control the weather. The Bilikiki is an outstanding operation with a long tenured and talented crew. We came back spoiled rotten from the service. Diving is mainly done off of the "tinnies" which take you right to the reef and the tinnie drivers come and get you wherever you surface. The numbers and types of fish are incredible and the variety of dive sites, wrecks, walls, slopes, channels is great. The food is plentiful and good. The chocolate chip cookies brought out the "Cookie Monster" in many of us. Fresh fish and fruits and vegetables are purchased from the local villagers who visit by canoe. The cabins are the largest we have seen on a liveaboard and the air conditioning worked well. Overall the ship is kept in good repair all around. Getting to the Solomon Islands is a long haul from the east coast. We flew to LA and had a 3 hour layover, then 14 hours to Brisbane. We overnighted in Brisbane and then took the flight to Honiara the next morning. We were greeted by the Bilikiki staff and taken to a hotel lobby to wait for about an hour or two and then taken to the boat to board. On the return trip you depart the boat first thing in the morning and then have to kill six or seven hours before the flight to Australia leaves. Going back via Fiji saves a few hours because the plane leaves two or three hours earlier. As it was we went to Brisbane and on to Sydney for a couple of extra days since we had never been there before. Bottom line, not cheap to get there but well worth the trip.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	[Unspecified]
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, cloudy	Seas	calm, currents
Water Temp	86-87°F / 30-31°C	Wetsuit Thickness	2
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Divers were left to dive their own profiles.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	There is a separate padded table for camera equipment and also a separate rinse tank. Crew handled all photo equipment onto and off of the skiffs and treated it as they would their own.

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Dive Review of Bilikiki in Solomon Islands

Bilikiki, Jun, 2006,

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Dive Review of Bilikiki in
Solomon Islands