Bunaken Oasis Dive Resort and Spa
Liang Beach, Bunaken Island, Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
How To Get There- Dive Overview
- Accommodation Overview
- Food & Drinks
- Dive Center Information
- Dive Center Features
- Practical Information
- Resort Features
- Resort Activities
- Inclusions & Exclusions
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- Dive & destination information
Number of Rooms
12
Wifi
Yes, free
Nitrox
Yes
Dive Center
On-site
Swimming Pool
Bar
Bunaken Oasis Dive Resort and Spa redefines diving in Bunaken. Positioned very much at the luxury end of the spectrum, the Bunaken Oasis Dive Resort aims to provide a 5-star experience whilst keeping its ecological footprint to a minimum. The resort offers 12 large, traditionally-built villas, including one family villa with two bedrooms, and one villa near the Long House for those who may have difficulty walking. It's located on a 5-hectare site, with private seafront, mangrove area, and 140m private jetty.
How To Get There
The simplest way is to fly to Singapore, then Singapore to Manado. Silk Air operates flights to Manado several times a week. You will be met at Manado by an Oasis representative. After a 30-minute drive to a port in Manado, the journey to Bunaken Oasis is about 30 minutes by boat.
Dive Overview
At Bunaken Oasis Dive Resort and Spa, guests have easy access to more than 90 incredible dive sites. The sheer variety of diving in Bunaken is simply amazing: vertical walls with the sea bed 1500 meters beneath your fins, gentle walls with sandy bottoms, stunning reef tops, and muck diving on the mainland.
[Read More: Bunaken Dive Travel Guide]Accommodation Overview
The Bunaken Oasis Dive Resort and Spa has ten 70 sqm luxury cottages, one 90 sqm double luxury cottage, and one two-story luxury cottage, with separate access, ideal for families with older children, or for friends traveling together.
All cottages have air-conditioning, modern indoor bathroom, organic toiletries, coffee maker, hot and cold water dispenser, Bluetooth speaker, Samsung tablet, mini-fridge, safe, robes and slippers, and large balcony with stunning mainland and sea views. The cottages come with either king-sized or twin beds.
Food & Drinks
The resort's full-service comes with fantastic views over the pool, Long House and out to sea, where guests will enjoy gourmet Asian and western cuisine for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
At the chill-out cocktail bar, guests can enjoy a range of fine wines and spirits (and Bintang!) while they unwind beneath the stars. Snacks are also served, and there are unlimited servings of tea and coffee in the cottages, and on the dive boats.
Dive Center Information
The resort's PADI dive center has a large, comfortable classroom, a spacious camera room for photographers and ample freshwater rinse tanks. This 5-star dive center offers a range of courses.
Diving is done from one of the resort's brand-new, purpose-built dive boats. All our boats provide freshwater deck showers, catering facilities, flushing WCs, and excellent facilities for photographers.
For those who choose to travel light, you can hire everything you need to dive from our extensive range of equipment from leading manufacturers. All you need to bring is your logbook and proof of certification.
Dive Center Features
- Free Nitrox, for Nitrox-qualified divers
- Full dedicated technical diving facility with specialist staff and equipment for every need
- rental gear
- Luxury dive boats (1 x 17-meter fiberglass catamaran, 3 x 14 meter and 2 x 16-meter traditional wooden boats )
Practical Information
- Electricity: 220 Volts
- Time zone: UTC+8
- Languages: English & Indonesian
- Local Currency: IDR (Indonesian Rupiah). GBP, USD, and SGD also accepted for cash payments and gratuities.
- For local purchases or market visits, please bring IDR. There are no ATMs on Bunaken, so please obtain IDR before arrival, although small-value exchanges can be made at reception.
- Accept credit card?: Yes, Visa & Master Card (with a 1.85% administration fee)
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What's included when you book?
Included
- Accommodation
- Full Board Meals
- 3 Dives/day
- Nitrox
- Return Airport Transfers
- Tax
Excluded
- Marine Park Fee
- Equipment Rental
Find a Room in Bunaken Oasis Dive Resort and Spa
Luxury Cottage
Air Con- Fan
- En Suite Bathroom
- Hot Water Shower
- Wifi (free)
- Balcony or Terrace
- Ocean view
- Garden view
- Pool view
- Towels
- Toiletries
- Daily housekeeping
- Room Service
- Laundry Service
- Safe
- Mini Bar
- Tea/coffee making facilities
from $4877
Luxury Twin Cottage
- Air Con
- Fan
- En Suite Bathroom
- Hot Water Shower
- Wifi (free)
- Balcony or Terrace
- Ocean view
- Garden view
- Pool view
- Towels
- Toiletries
- Daily housekeeping
- Room Service
- Laundry Service
- Safe
- Mini Bar
- Tea/coffee making facilities
from $4118
More information about Indonesia diving
Manado Bay and Bunaken National Park offer a mix of marine environments. Bunaken is known for its dramatic wall dives with rich coral formations and a variety of marine species including reef sharks and schooling fish. Bangka Island, nearby, features lush soft corals and larger marine life. The diving conditions are excellent throughout the year, with particularly favorable conditions from March to October.
Fellow traveler's reviews
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LauraTaylor
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Overall ValueAccommodationsMarine Life FoodBunaken Oasis Resort provided possibly the best dive resort experience I have had in 15 years of diving in Indonesia. From the luxury vehicle 30-minute airport transfer, and another 30 minutes on a lovely timber-trimmed boat (interestingly named after the owners’ horses) to arriving at the resort pier, I felt like a cherished guest.Warmly welcomed by the management team, I was given a brief tour, deposited my camera into the huge camera room, and then escorted up a few flights of stairs to my standalone bungalow, where I had a great view of the lushly landscaped hillside of the Oasis, over the infinity pool and beyond to the sea from the comfortable deck chairs.My room had everything one could desire, a beautiful fruit basket, a Nespresso coffee maker, lots of teas, hot & cold water, a mini-bar, wine, waffle robes or silky kimonos, lots of towels, organic body wash, soaps, shampoo and conditioner and a magic basket, where your laundry goes in and returns clean and folded. Importantly for me, WIFI was available in the room and throughout the resort.I left the cocoon of my room to venture up to the spa for a blissful massage before wandering down to the impressively designed bar and lounge over 3 levels. As one looks around you can’t help but notice the many detailed design elements of the resort that are beautifully maintained. One morning I noticed a loose paving stone, but on my way back from breakfast one of the groundskeepers was already repairing it and inspecting others.Meals were all ordered a la carte from an extensive menu for breakfast and lunch and a menu of the day for dinner. Fresh squeezed juices, baked pastries and fancy egg dishes and espresso coffees for breakfast; lunch ranged from salads, grilled fish, curries to burgers and exceptional house-made ice creams.With a small number of guests, we all had dinner together with the resort owners and management team. One night we had a 7-course tasting menu where the chefs were flexing their creativity and impressive presentation skills, which occurs almost weekly. On the last night for some guests, we were presented with a concert of local and pop songs by some of the talented F & B team as a farewell.The Bunaken Marine Park dives were a surprising treat, featuring wall diving, at times a comfortable drift and one for advanced divers with more challenging currents but all with very clear water and lots of marine life, both macro and pelagic. I had a tip to dive at Manado Tua, at the base of the volcano, and on request that was easily added to the itinerary.The dive operation was top-notch too, with everything fastidiously managed, from the boats, to the dive prep area, camera room and even the compressor room. Two of the dive team were being certified to teach tech/rebreather diving, so they will have that option there by now too. I was lucky to be one of the only divers in a lull between 2 busy periods and I dived with the owners and one of the managers. But my dive guide and buddy Hentje Pontoh is a legend in Bunaken, having discovered a new pygmy seahorse species in 2008: Hippocampus pontohi. We had a lot of fun.
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