Dive Review of Murex Dive Resorts in
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Murex Dive Resorts : "Passport to Paradise - Bunaken, Bangka, Lembeh", Aug, 2022, by Gary & Robin Schiendelman, PA, US ( Sr. Contributor 27 reports with 43 Helpful votes). Report 12077 has 3 Helpful votes.
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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	Passport to Paradise in North Sulawesi As soon as we heard Indonesia was opening with a Visa on Arrival, we confirmed our reservations (rolled over from 2020 and 2021) and booked our flights. While we generally like liveaboards for the variety of diving, we thought this land based trip, staying at 3 different resorts, might give us a similar variety. While not as much variety as a liveaboard, there was more than you generally get from staying at just one resort. We flew from JFK through Frankfurt to Singapore on Singapore Air, then took a Scoot Air flight to Manado. All in all, it was long but not terrible. Oh, except that one of our bags was never loaded onto the plane at JFK. Fortunately, it was the bag with our clothing and miscellaneous items and NOT our dive gear. So it turned out to be a minor inconvenience. As a side note, we got an email from Kenya Airways about 10 days after we returned home saying our bag was in Nairobi. All's well that ends well, the bag was sent back to JFK and Fed Ex’d to our home a week later. Our first stop was at Murex Manado. We were picked up at the Manado airport and driven about an hour or so to the resort. The resort is simple but clean and comfortable. Our toilet was not working properly and the owner went above and beyond to get it fixed. Going from Plan A, a simple repair, to Plan D, getting a whole new toilet and having it installed that same day. All of the rooms are set in the garden and are twin cottages. We found it ve ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here
Websites	Murex Dive Resorts
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Indonesia, PNG, Solomon Isl, Red Sea, Maldives, South Africa, Mozambique, Cocos Isl, Galapagos, Socorro, Palau, Var Caribbean locations, New Jersey, Florida, No Carolina, Philippines, Fiji
Closest Airport	Manado	Getting There	JFK-FRA-SIN-MDC
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy, cloudy	Seas	calm, choppy
Water Temp	80-83°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	30-80 Ft/ 9-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Approx one hour dive time. Stay with dive guide
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 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
UW Photo Comments	Rinse bucket on the boats. Separate rinse tanks on land. Staff handled all cameras carefully. Nice camera rooms at all of the locations. ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here

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Dive Review of Murex Dive Resorts in Indonesia/North Sulawesi

Murex Dive Resorts : "Passport to Paradise - Bunaken, Bangka, Lembeh", Aug, 2022,

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Dive Review of Murex Dive Resorts in
Indonesia/North Sulawesi