Dive Review of Gangga Island Resort/same in
Indonesia/Sulawesi, Manado

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Gangga Island Resort/same, Oct, 2008, by Bob Ayers, CA, USA ( Reviewer 6 reports). Report 4775.
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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
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	I stayed/dove at three places in Sulawesi: Santika, Gangga Island, KBR -- my trip was arranged by Island Dreams. Gangga Island Resort has about 30 duplex rooms on a "private island" (there is a village too). The rooms are nice (tho not as nice as the Santika) and are along the beach. It's a fairly long walk if you are in the last cottage, as I was. Most dive trips go east to Bangka Island, some to another island or to mainland. Thus you are not diving "your" island and the boat trips are not short. There is shore snorkelling, but it is mostly shallow and sand -- I did not do any. The water around Bangka Island was excellent and the diversity was outstanding: all the reef-stuff you could want and most of the muck-critters too: OGPs, Frogfish, giant Nudis, Devilfish, pygmy Seahorse (DM had a magnifying glass), ... The resort is expensive for the area. The manager seems unresponsive to guest concerns (I had paid for water-transfers but she wasn't interested in providing them). Although the DMs are good, their English is iffy -- they aren't much help with "What was that we saw?" The critter-diving gets a 6 of a 1-5 scale but when I return to the Bangka Island area I'll probably stay in one of the less-fancy resorts that are on Bangka island.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Caribbean, Fiji, Philippines
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy	Seas	calm, choppy, currents, no currents
Water Temp	-°F / -°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	30-80 Ft/ 9-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	I dove with the DM. Just the obvious OW "rules", some people got 80m out of a tank.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
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	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Gangga Island Resort/same in Indonesia/Sulawesi, Manado

Gangga Island Resort/same, Oct, 2008,

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Dive Review of Gangga Island Resort/same in
Indonesia/Sulawesi, Manado