Spice Island Divers & Resort

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What visitors say

• ★ 4Paul Cowles

  Excellent food and genuinely kind staff, guides, and boat captains. I stayed 8 nights in December and appreciated how flexible the team was about getting dives completed—if you’ve prepaid for a set number, they really try to make it happen. Rooms are spacious and photographer-friendly with strong A/C, the resort felt safe, and the diving offered lots of macro/photo opportunities with a good variety of life. Nitrox and larger tanks were easy, there’s a camera room available, boats worked well overall, and the airport proximity makes logistics easy. A few things held the experience back from feeling as polished as it could be. On rougher days the pier can be unusable, requiring a transfer to board elsewhere. Guide quality and English ability varied, and the resort rotates guides day-to-day; for muck diving I strongly prefer one consistent guide who learns your targets and what you’ve already seen. Surface intervals sometimes felt less guest-focused (e.g., smoking and phone videos with a

• ★ 4Roger Nelson

  Spice Island Divers in Ambon, Indonesia offers some of the best muck diving anywhere. The diving is similar to Lembeh but without the crowds. In fact, on many sites, you will have it all to yourself. The resort has a large dive center and camera room, a jetty, comfortable boats and excellent dive guides. The rooms are a bit worn but everything works including AC and hot showers. The restaurant provides a set menu for lunches and dinner.

• ★ 5Aree F

  Laid back quaint resort (15min away from the airport) with two types of rooms available: Garden view and the sea view rooms. Villa 1 is the best and next to the sea. But note that internet is poor from Villa 1. The rooms have their own water containers. No TV. Most dive sites are less than 15mins away and are muck diving for macro and super macro stuff. There’s a camera room and dive area is well set up. The dive crew are very very helpful and the boat always has drinks and local kuehs. A couple of downsides: 1) mosquitoes here are aplenty and vicious, so bring extra repellant. (Though it’s nice the resort provides Baygon, cream and electric repellant) 2) towels aren’t changed during the stay but could improve by at least informing or stating it somewhere in the room. 3) have to switch on/off water pumps for the water in the bathrooms. Not a big downside but is a little inconvenient. Food wise, they have a 3 course every lunch and dinner. They’re reviewing their western food sele

• ★ 4Amy Gilbert

  Very good dive resort for mostly muck diving. Resort is very well run and organized. Staff was excellent! Dive guides excellent! Food was just ok- nothing tasted bad but nothing was very tasty either. Room was large and very clean. Property is beautiful with many tropical plants. I took one star away because I felt the price for a 3 night stay with 6 dives was too expensive, especially considering that the dive sites were all about 5 minutes away from resort. There is a large amount of trash in Ambon bay and all over the surrounding land, but the property itself it kept very clean. I found many unusual critters here and was able to get great video footage since there was not much current.

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