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Thalassa Manado/Thalassa Dive Resport Lembeh: "Wonderful week diving the Lembeh muck", Nov, 2025, by Richard P Tucker, CA, US ( Reviewer 6 reports with 6 Helpful votes). Report 13667 has 1 Helpful vote.
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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	After a week diving in Bunaken National Park with Thalassa Dive and Wellbeing Resort Manado (reviewed separately), we were taken by van across North Sulawesi, on a modern divided highway no less, to Bitung. At a beach near Bitung we boarded a dive boat which took us and our gear to Lembeh Island and Thalassa Dive Resort Lembeh. The resort is small, quiet, and very well run by manager Maria and her staff. We stayed in a relatively spacious bungalow about halfway between the restaurant and dive shop that overlooked the strait, with a covered lanai, plenty of A/C, hot water and a comfortable bed. The restaurant is open air, but bugs weren’t a problem after a quick spray of repellent on bare legs. The food was excellent. Breakfast is served at 7AM, and guests have a choice of made-to-order omelets (or scrambled eggs, or fried eggs) or crepe-like pancakes. There is a lot of fresh f ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here
Websites	Thalassa Manado Thalassa Dive Resport Lembeh
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Micronesia, Red Sea, Hawaii, Caribbean, Florida, California, Sipadan, Panama, Bunaken, Lembeh
Closest Airport	Manado	Getting There	San Francisco to Singapore (Singapore Airlines) to Manado (Scoot). Thalassa will pick you up at the airport for the 50-minute drive to the Bitung, followed by a quick trip across the strait on a dive boat
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy, cloudy, dry	Seas	calm, no currents
Water Temp	82-84°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	2
Water Visibility	20-40 Ft/ 6-12 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	All dives guided with max depth and bottom time enforced
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	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	Our gear was treated respectfully on the boat. We rinsed the gear and recharged our batteries in our room. ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here

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Dive Review of Thalassa Manado/Thalassa Dive Resport Lembeh in Indonesia/Lembeh

Thalassa Manado/Thalassa Dive Resport Lembeh: "Wonderful week diving the Lembeh muck", Nov, 2025,

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Dive Review of Thalassa Manado/Thalassa Dive Resport Lembeh in
Indonesia/Lembeh