Manta Ray Bay Resort

How To Get There

The resort is on the waterfront in the heart of Colonia, Yaps main town. It is a short 10-minute ride from the airport.

Dive Overview

Exquisite diving for everyone, from beginners to experts. Half of the reefs surrounding the resort are still unexplored, and the known sites remain crowd-free. Giving the resort its name, manta rays frequent the area year-round. There are also large numbers of reef sharks and colorful critters.

[Read More: Yap Dive Travel Guide & Micronesia Dive Travel Guide]

Accommodation Overview

The motif of the entire hotel is marine life with each of the rooms individually decorated in tropical elegance. Each room bears a fish name, and is decorated accordingly, with photographs and paintings of that fish, hand-carved door, hand carved key chains and handmade bedspreads. Each Room features:

• Air Conditioning & ceiling fan
• In-room Refrigerator (upon request)
• IDD Telephone
• Color TV with DVD player
• Fully potable in-room hot & cold tap water
• Built-in hair dryer
• Built-in electronic safe
• Internet Access
• Complimentary Coffee & Tea Service

Deluxe Ocean View Room And Suite

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• The Deluxe Ocean View rooms are our finest rooms. These rooms feature stunning ocean-views, king-sized beds, private patios and unique interior features. Some of these rooms have private plunge pools, or fantastic stone showers or even a private rooftop jacuzzi! They are all unique and equally elegant.

Ocean View Room

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• Each individually themed Ocean View Room features a breathtaking view of the lagoon. Wake up to a beautiful sunrise reflecting off of the still waters. Ocen View Rooms are well appointed in tropical style and feature either one or two queen-sized beds. Some rooms even have waterbeds!

Standard Room

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• Each unique Standard Room is well appointed in tropical style and features either one or two queen-sized beds. The standard rooms are on the opposite side of the resort with views of the hills and beyond.

Restaurant

Bar & Spa

Food & Drinks

The food is inspired by Asian, local and European recipes with generous portions which are both wholesome and delicious. Daily delights such as homemade pizza, hamburgers and cheeseburgers and fresh fish sandwiches can be found on the daily menu.

Dive Overview

Yap is best-known for its resident manta ray presence, clear blue water diving and a strong reef shark population. With almost 100 miles of barrier reef, several big channels and lagoon sites, there is one of everything here to explore miles of outer reef wall diving, deep and shallow channels to drift as well as inner lagoon macro and night diving. Highlights of Yap Diving are the mantas, daily year-round reef shark diving with three kinds of interactions, nightly mating mandarin fish as well as rich coral walls and caverns.

Yap Sharks At Vertigo

The one thing that is guaranteed in Yap is Vertigo with its local school of un-shy Grey and Black Tip reef sharks. This is a true year-round rain or shine dive. Yap sharks are always home at Vertigo.

Grey, black and white tip reef sharks will most likely be in every dive log entry, with the exception of one of the manta ray cleaning stations.

Almost all diving includes shark encounters and interactions. On several occasions, bigger species are sited along the Southern walls, including Tiger, Silky and Silvertips.

Critters, Macro And More

Yaps big animal diving is complimented with diverse reef life, and especially a smaller side, critter diving.

Critter diving can be in a days dive plan year-round. We have both inner lagoon macro dive sites as well as outer reef macro diving.

Photographers are pleased with the quality of Yaps subjects and shooting environments.

Other typical marine life encounters include turtles, cuttlefish, eagle rays and big fish.

Yaps barrier reef consists of hundreds of types of hard coral and where the currents hit youll find a living mixture of whips, sponges andblooming soft corals.

All of this is enjoyed in small 6-8 pax fully-equipped twin-engine dive boats in small groups with veteran dive guides.

Dive Center Information

Manta Ray Bay Resort Dive Center Overview

Award winning Yap Divers is Yaps first PADI 5-Star Resort and an SSI Platinum Dive Center. With Yap Divers, you can be assured of clean, pure air, safe diving, and a full range of instruction available from Open Water through Divemaster. We also offer a number of specialty dive certifications for those who want to expand their formal dive training, and we are home to the only place in the world where you can do the PADI certified Manta Ray Awareness Course. This makes for a perfect combination to enhance the Yap Island vacation.

Dive Center Features

• The most convenient land-based dive op
• Modern, quiet, comfortable, covered dive boats
• Personal Gear Storage Area
• Camera Stations with secure storage
• Top-of-the-line rental gear
• NITROX available

Practical Information

• Time zone: UTC+10
• Languages: Filipino, Russian, Dutch, Indonesian, French, Spanish, English & German
• Electricity: 110 V
• Accept Credit Cards?: Yes, Visa, MasterCard, American Express and JCB cards