Dive Review of Cove Eco Resort/Cove Eco in
Indonesia/Raja Ampat

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Cove Eco Resort/Cove Eco: "Not A Great Experience", Feb, 2025, by Love Sharks, OR, US ( Reviewer 5 reports with 6 Helpful votes). Report 13402.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	From Portland, Oregon, I flew for 2 hours and connected in San Francisco. Here I stayed overnight, then 11 hours on Japan Airlines to HND, took the Limousine Bus for 2 hours for $25 to NRT. With an 18-hour layover, I spent the night in Narita. Then 8 hours to Jakarta, a layover for 4 hours, then on to SOQ for 4 hours. I stayed 2 nights in Sorong before being picked up by Cove Eco Resort (CE) to be taken to the ferry for a 2-hour ride to Waisai then transferred to CE’s boat for another 1 hour, 45-minute ride to the resort. I left the U.S. on February 18th and arrived in Sorong on February 22nd. All the flights went smoothly until my check-in at the Garuda counter to go from Jakarta to Sorong. It took 45 minutes to check in because of the baggage. Garuda is a new member of SkyTeam, which was evident as they mishandled my reservation. I used 40,000 Delta miles to get a business class seat for the extra luggage allowance plus the free 50-pound sports baggage. The circus monkeys at Garuda decided to intermingle the Delta rules and Garuda rules and they charged me $100 as a Delta rule for an extra bag but gave me the free sports bag on the Garuda rule. I was supposed to have all bags free in business class. This was the start of my frustrations with being in Indonesia. When I arrived, I went to two ATMs at the Jakarta airport using my Charles Schwab debit card for IDR since the machines have limits. I am very careful to look for skimmers and watch my back while withdrawing money. A woman came up too close for personal space at an ATM and said “taxi?” I’m guessing she was testing to see if I understood English for a distraction. I turned around (mistake-I should have ignored her). She muttered something, and I told her to back up and go away. I got my money and left. Fast forward four days, and I get a text from Charles Schwab questioning two charges from Singapore, one for zero dollars and one for $99.99. The zero dollars charge is, of course, to see if this is a live card number. I denied authorization and they blocked it from going through. Yep, my debit card number was stolen. The card was blocked from further use. I don’t know which of the two machines had the skimmer or if the woman had anything to do with it. I stayed at the Aston hotel in Sorong, which is a real improvement over Swiss-Bel hotel from my last trip. Arriving at 6 a.m., ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Hawaii, Florida, Mexico, Bahamas, St. Marteen, St. Croix, St. Lucia, St. Thomas, St. Kitts, Grenada, Bonaire, Belize, Honduras, Aruba, Grand Cayman, Curacao, Barbados, St. Eustatius, Turkey, Raja Ampat Indonesia, Australia, French Polynesia, Fiji, Philippines
Closest Airport	Sorong	Getting There	PDX to SFO (2 hrs), SFO to HND (11 hrs), Limousine Bus-HND to NRT (2 hrs), NRT to CGK (8 hrs), CGK to SOQ (4 hrs), boat transfer to Waisai (2 hrs), boat transfer to Cove Eco (1 hr, 45-mins)
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy, cloudy	Seas	calm, currents, no currents
Water Temp	83-87°F / 28-31°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	20-30 Ft/ 6-9 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	60 minute max dive time
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	1 or 2	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	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
UW Photo Comments	There is no camera room and no camera bucket on the boat. The cabin is dimly lit with only three low-wattage lamps. ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here

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Dive Review of Cove Eco Resort/Cove Eco in Indonesia/Raja Ampat

Cove Eco Resort/Cove Eco: "Not A Great Experience", Feb, 2025,

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Dive Review of Cove Eco Resort/Cove Eco in
Indonesia/Raja Ampat