Gangga Island Resort & Spa
Pulau Gangga Desa Gangga Satu Likupang Barat Minahasa Utara, 95375 Serai, Indonesia
How To Get There- Dive Overview
- Accommodation Overview
- Food & Drinks
- Dive Information
- Dive Center Information
- Dive Center Facilities
- Boats Facilities And Services
- Practical Information
- Resort Features
- Resort Activities
- Inclusions & Exclusions
- Specials
- Find a room
- Dive & destination information
Number of Rooms
30
Wifi
Yes, free
Nitrox
Yes
Dive Center
On-site
Swimming Pool
Bar
Gangga Island Resort & Spa is a beautiful beachfront dive & spa resort located on the tip off the small island of Gangga off the coast of North Sulawesi. It's great location, top-notch amenities, and professionally-run dive center makes it perfect for holiday makers, honeymooners, and diving enthusiasts alike.
How To Get There
The resort is located near Manado. Transfers to and from the Manado International Airport is available at $110 per adult per way, and consist of a 70-minute car ride and a 20-minute boat ride across the straight to Gangga Island.
Dive Overview
Gangga Island Resort is managed by experienced divers who place an emphasis on environmental sustainability. With their fully-equipped dive center, abundant local knowledge, and stunning location (with more than 30 world-class diving locations), Gangga Island is the ideal place for divers.
[Read More: Manado Dive Travel Guide]
Accommodation Overview
This Resort boasts an exclusive cluster of 15 beachfront bungalows, each with two rooms and built in the simple local Minahasa style.Choose from a Superior Minahasa Room or an updated Deluxe Minahasa Room. Featuring a total of 30 rooms with a spacious veranda overlooking the beach, each room is equipped with:
- Air conditioning
- Ceiling fans
- Mosquito nets
- Satellite TV with international channels
- In-room telephone for internal use only
- Mini bar
- Private bathroom with hot & cold water shower
- Hair dryer
- Bathrobe
- Safety deposit box in the room
- Complimentary coffee & tea making facilities
- Internet Access: complimentary Wi-Fi internet in the room
Food & Drinks
The restaurant serves a sampling of Indonesian fare to delight your taste buds, centered on fish dishes as expected on an island location, as well as international cuisine. There is also an open-air space set under the coconut trees for barbeque and themed nights. The Coconut Bar is open all day long with your favorite cocktails, as well as tea and coffee readily available.
Dive Information
With its more than 30 world-class diving locations, the island offers a wonderful variety of marine life with rare species & pristine reefs.
Gangga is the ideal starting point for diving the Bangka Archipelago, Bunaken National Marine Park (near Manado) & Lembeh Strait.
During your stay, the dive guides will help you discover the marvelous underwater world & see the astonishingly rich variety of flora & fauna which delights underwater photographers. Scientists of marine biology from all over the world come to study & photograph the marine life found here.
Dive Center Information
Gangga Divers is a full-service 5-star diving facility that operates according to best PADI standards. The personalized service and attention to safety reflect the excellence already widely associated with the image of Gangga Divers and the Lotus Hotels & Resorts. The dive guides are qualified dive masters or Instructors and they pride themselves on offering a personalized diving service to suit and safely assist divers of all levels of experience.
Dive Center Facilities
- Classroom
- Meeting and reading room
- Library with a large choice of marine books
- Large photo room with working tables, lockers and charging outlets 220-110 volts
- Toilet, washing sink and drying facilities
- New or well-maintained rental equipment by Aqualung
- One Coltri automatic NITROX mixer
- Nitrox 32% are available free of charge
- 3 well maintained and well aerated Coltri Compressors for safe air
- 12 & 15 Liter aluminum tanks, valves and adaptors INT and DIN
Boats Facilities And Services
- 2 wooden diving boats with sundecks and toilet to accommodate 8-12 divers
- 1 fiberglass boat with sundeck and toilet to accommodate 12-15 divers
- Each powered by 2 silent, 4 stroke Suzuki & Yamaha outboard Engines 175-225-250 HP
- 2 wooden diving boats to accommodate 4-8 divers, each powered by 4 stroke Suzuki outboard Engines 40 HP
- Fresh towels
- Safety equipment such as radios, life jackets, first aid kit, DAN Jumbo Oxygen twin tanks
- Fresh fruits & snacks
- Lunch box, afternoon tea and snacks when out for 3 dives
- Drinking water and hot tea
- Freshwater for cameras
Practical Information
- Electricity: 220-240V, transformers available
- Time zone: UTC+8
- Languages: Indonesian & English
- Accept Credit Cards?: Visa & Master Card.3% bank surcharge will be added to the original spend.
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What's included when you book?
Included
- Accommodation
- Full Board Meals
- 3 Dives/day
- Nitrox
- Airport Transfers
Excluded
- Marine Park Fee
- Alcoholic & non-alcoholic beverages
- Rental equipment
Find a Room in Gangga Island Resort & Spa
Superior Minahasa Room
Air Con- Fan
- Hot Water Shower
- Wifi (free)
- TV
- Towels
- Safe
- Mini Bar
- Tea/coffee making facilities
from $2451
Deluxe Minahasa Room
- Air Con
- Fan
- Hot Water Shower
- Wifi (free)
- TV
- Towels
- Safe
- Mini Bar
- Tea/coffee making facilities
from $2612
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.
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LauraTaylor
1164 Reviews
Overall ValueAccommodationsMarine Life FoodArriving by boat from Manado to a large, fixed pier, guests are greeted by uniformed staff and cheerfully guided to your room through the Gangga Resort set on a flat sandy island. A walk past the dive center and camera room, leads to the main complex open-air reception, lounge, bar (open from 6.30 am) and restaurant overlooking a beautiful infinity pool. Plan to spend any afternoon free time keeping cool in the pool or in your AC bungalow as it can get quite hot.Spread out along a meandering path, which looked a bit dry with not much green landscaping as other tropical resorts, accommodation is in air-conditioned duplex beachfront bungalows, each with an outdoor day bed and own beach cabana. The rooms are large with every amenity (except WIFI) TV’s, satellite channels, mini-bar, tea and coffee station, water dispensers, bathrobes, and toiletries.The dining was a highlight, with full service, white tablecloths, and excellent quality meals. On arrival for lunch and dinner, you are greeted and place your order from a menu board of the day with an appetiser, first course, and a choice of 3 main courses and 2 desserts (or ice cream). It really was too much! Breakfast was an extensive buffet with eggs cooked to order. Lunch had mostly western food options and dinner had both local and western choices. Afternoon tea and coffee was served by the pool with a selection of local snacks.The resort had more snorkellers than divers during my visit and the dive sites were chosen with the snorkellers in mind, so I passed on the 2-tank morning dive and was pleasantly surprised by an afternoon boat dive on the house reef as the only diver. The morning dives from Gangga tend to go to the better Bangka sites.The boats are comfortable, with a snack and hot beverages between dives, plenty of water and towels provided. On the next days' morning dive were 2 guides for 6 divers and no snorkelers. The normal ratio is 1:4 and my guide was excellent at spotting macro on one of my favourite sites of the trip. The entry was a backward roll and a good ladder was provided to get back on board.Following my dives I was efficiently transferred to another Bangka resort, so I never even had to repack my dive gear.
jmnigro
1164 Reviews
Overall ValueAccommodationsMarine Life Foodmedas2005
1164 Reviews
Overall ValueAccommodationsMarine Life FoodHalf the fun of this place is getting there. The road that turns north towards the shore starts out as a normal Indonesian rode and gets progressively more remote as you go. Farmers would use the road to lay out blankets and dry their crops in the sun. We had to go around mules pulling logs and even had to work our way through a wedding celebration march that used the road we were on. You definitely get a "We're not in Kansas anymore" feeling by the time you get to the dock where it is then a 45 minute boat ride to the island.The Gangga Island Resort is a small island with 15 bungalows, each with two rooms. The resort itself is quite spacious with a good size pool and a nice set of core buildings for the patrons. Some of the rooms are a pretty good walk to the central resort, so look at a resort map and choose carefully if you don't want a five minute or more hike each way. The paths were dark and not real well lit.The food was buffet style for all meals (it's not like you had anywhere else to go!) and it was very good. As a matter of fact the food was great--the best that I have had at a dedicated dive resort. The owners are Italian so that tilts the food in that direction. As a matter of fact, the entire resort is heavily tilted towards European travelers and families. We were there in August which is the height of the vacation season so there were a lot of European families with children. We only saw one other American couple the time we were there. That didn't bother us, but some folks might like more Americans.The diving facility and dive photography facility was spacious and first class. The entire dive operation was extremely well run. They had 4 or 5 boats that would go to different sites each morning.The diving was quite a bit more controlled due to the nature of the clientele which were generally less experienced than at most dive resorts. (I think Lembeh tends to attract the serious divers compared to here) Strict one hour limits were enforced and we were required to stay in a small group. Since I was there with my 13 year old son, this was OK with me.The diving nearby was very good, although some of the sites were not reachable because of windy weather when we were there. Several of the sites near the resort had typical pretty coral reefs with small reef fish and an occasional eagle ray and turtle. We also went back to the mainland of Sulawesi for some dives that were a bit more Lembeh like. We did find a nice mandarin fish dive and they had a boat that went there every evening at sunset. We went twice because I forgot to have my strobe plugged in inside my housing the first time! We looked for pygmy seahorses but did not find them. We did see lots of angel fish and a couple of interesting octopuses.We went to Bangka Island twice during the week were there and it was very good coral reef diving. Not quite as good as Raja Ampat, but still very good. For extra charge, we did a day trip to Bunaken which was actually a bit disappointing. Very pretty topography, but not a lot of fish. The resort did an all day trip to Lembeh a couple of times a week. We had just been to the Lembeh Resort, so we skipped that.While a dive resort, this place had a multi-purpose feel to it as opposed to Lembeh which was kind of a liveaboard on land. Most people went diving, but not every day like we did. We did get paired with a specific divemaster who appreciated that we were more serious than most divers there. He helped me with my photography and kept a good eye on my young son. He was probably the best divemaster that I have ever had on a trip.This is a great family destination where some dive and some don't. The only other place like it was the Cousteau Resort on Fiji. Kids will be happy in the pool. Teens will be happy in local diving. Divers will have lots of options as well. This is a place that more Americans should visit. There are plenty of local sites for five days or so. It makes a great extension onto a Lembeh Resort visit and gives a very nice extension to the muck diving of Lembeh.
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