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Gangga Island Resort & Spa, May, 2014, by Michael J. Millet, CA, US ( Top Contributor 96 reports with 60 Helpful votes). Report 7603.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	This was my second visit to Gangga Island Resort. I was last there in October, 2009. In the interim, the bungalow rooms have been completely renovated and are much improved. They are first class. The rooms a quite spacious with adequate lighting, electrical outlets, A/C, ceiling fan, mini-bar. The bathrooms are large with big, walk-in showers. Each bungalow has a large outside deck. The resort has a large, well-maintained, white sand beach. It also has a large, salt water pool. Each room has very good WiFi connection. The resort has a very pleasant dining area, bar and lounge area. In the dining room, each guest(s) have an assigned table for their stay. Breakfast included a very extensive buffet with an egg/omelet station. At breakfast, one selects lunch from a menu and at lunch, a dinner selection is made. The menu includes a variety of both western and Asian food. The food is plentiful and quite good although some of the chicken/fish dishes were a bit overcooked. The resort has a full bar with a good variety of beer, wine and spirits at Indonesian prices, i.e., high. The dive trips in the Gangga Island/Bangka Island area are 2-tank morning trips with water, juice, fruit on board. The boat rides to the far side of Bangka Island are about 45 minutes. There is also diving at sites on North Sulawesi Island. After lunch at the resort, a single-tank PM dive is set for about 3:00 PM. I was usually the only diver on the PM dive. There is also night diving and an OK mandarin fish dive. The dive boats are adequate but in need of some refurbishing. The crew was regularly working on the engines. The dive guides are superb; very knowledgeable of the dive sites and the marine life. I booked a private guide who I had dived with in 2009. He did a great job. The diving is mostly on coral gardens and some walls. There are some nice rubble sites and little bit of muck diving near by. Dive trips to both Lembeh and Bunaken are available. The crew and staff are exceptionally friendly and helpful. The dive team is a fun bunch of guys to hang with. Should the opportunity present itself, I will return to Gangga Island Resort.
Websites	Gangga Island Resort & Spa
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	All over the Caribbean; Galapagos, Socorro, Fiji, Solomons, GBR, Vanuatu, PNG, Philippines, Indonesia, Palau, Yap, Kosrae
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	82-85°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	40-100 Ft/ 12-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	No deco
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	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Gangga Island Resort is a great location for macro-photography of many different types and species of marine life. It may not have the exotic muck critters of Lembeh but Lembeh is on a 3-tank, all day dive trip from Gangga. The resort has a very substantial camera room with several stations, good lighting, many electrical outlets, and soft cloths. There is a camera rinse outside the camera room. Dive staff carried camera gear to/from the dive boats, which had adequate camera rinse containers on board.

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Dive Review of Gangga Island Resort & Spa in Indonesia/Gangga Island

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