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Bilikiki Cruises: "Great Diving", Mar, 2018, by Mark Rosenstein, MA, US ( Sr. Contributor 24 reports with 17 Helpful votes). Report 10196 has 3 Helpful votes.
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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
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Comments	The Bilikiki is an older boat, but it is well maintained and quite comfortable. It’s a little larger than most liveaboards, with ten double-cabins. The crew is excellent: friendly, competent and helpful. One of the two cruise directors got sick during the trip and couldn’t dive for half the time; they still managed to put guides in the water for every dive, the other cruise director did most dives, and qualified members of the crew helped. The food was delicious and plentiful. All meals are served buffet style so you can control portion sizes better than on boats with plated meals. A vegetarian guest said that this was the best she had been fed on a dive boat. Many of the guests on this cruise were most interested in sharks and other big fish. Many sites were chosen to increase their odds of good encounters. As someone who prefers smaller reef fish, I felt like there was always something to see. I ended up logging 580 different species of fish on the 11 day cruise.
Websites	Bilikiki Cruises
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Fiji, Komodo, Lembeh, Tulamben, Palau, Raja Ampat, Solomons, Wakatobi, GBR, Galapagos, many Caribbean
Closest Airport	Honiara	Getting There	Most of us flew via Fiji, though you could also connect through Brisbane.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy, cloudy	Seas	calm, choppy, currents, no currents
Water Temp	84-86°F / 29-30°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	25-80 Ft/ 8-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Usually we were just asked to stay within our NDL. Occasionally for scheduling reasons we were asked to limit dive time to an hour. A few afternoons we could dive from the back of the ship without the tenders, at whatever times we liked.
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	We had the luxury of only two photographers on this cruise, so there was plenty of space. It could have been crowded if more of us had cameras. It's inconvenient that charging is done in another part of the boat from where the camera table is. Two large rinse tanks were nice. Each day's dive schedule had advice about lens choices.

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Dive Review of Bilikiki Cruises in Solomon Islands

Bilikiki Cruises: "Great Diving", Mar, 2018,

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Dive Review of Bilikiki Cruises in
Solomon Islands