Dive Review of Alami Alor in
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Alami Alor: "Best diving yet.", May, 2019, by David Ritchie, CA, US ( Sr. Reviewer 7 reports with 5 Helpful votes). Report 10936.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling
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Comments	We had excellent help from Lauren with the resort in planning our trip. Her advice on flights, given the instability of local scheduling, was very good. If one wants to spend more than 24 hours in Singapore sightseeing go to a hotel outside the terminal. We booked the in-transit hotel to stay 27 hours, had to leave transit to get luggage that we were told could not be checked through because our stay was over 24 hours, re-entered transit and found we could not leave again to see the sights. Changi airport is itself a tourist attraction, but not where we wanted to spend our day. We lost 1 1/2 days of diving because Lion Group cancelled our flight out of Jakarta causing us to miss the next connection and to spend 28 hours waiting in Kupang for the next available flight. The muck diving is as good as we expected. There are frogfish, rhinopia, seahorses, nudibranchs, ghostpipefish, pipefish, octopus, and more. The wall dives are impressive. There are wide temperature variations, from 83 to 72 on the same dive, with lows of 63 expected during a full moon. 7 mm suit suggested. 4 to 6 guests to a small open boat with shade, 5 to 45 minute rides, no head, back roll entry, 2 guides and crew handle all dive gear. A maximum of 12 guests eat family style at a community table at one sitting. It is a fixed menu for lunch and dinner. We enjoyed all the meals. Other guests were German, Dutch, French, American and Australian. The resort is 4 years old. Lauren (US) and Max (Brit) designed and built it. It is well done. They are now building a second resort a few miles away that will offer more to non divers.
Websites	Alami Alor
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Caribbean (many), Cozumel, S. Pacific (Fiji x 7) Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, Baja California, Monterey Bay, Hawaii, Philippines, Yap, Indonesia
Closest Airport	Alor Island	Getting There	Ideally about 30 hours from SFO to Alor through 6 airports with 5 different planes. Lion Air Group cancelled a flight out of Jakarta just prior to departure causing us to arrive at the resort 28 hours later than planned.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm, choppy, currents, no currents
Water Temp	72-84°F / 22-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	30-100 Ft/ 9-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	Boat diving with a guide, house reef unguided.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 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	N/A	Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	No bucket for cameras on the boat. Good camera room on shore. Lots of photo ops in the water. Guests divide into 2 groups of 2 to 4 in the water so crowding is not a problem.

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Dive Review of Alami Alor in Indonesia

Alami Alor: "Best diving yet.", May, 2019,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

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Reporter and Travel

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What I Saw

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Dive Review of Alami Alor in
Indonesia