Dive Review of Grand Luley Manodo in
Indonesia/North Sulawesi

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Grand Luley Manodo: "Great diving by hotel that is not a dive hotel, but has great diving", Jun, 2018, by Chris Hardham, FL, US ( Reviewer 3 reports with 1 Helpful vote). Report 10445 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	This was a group trip to North Sulawesi after the volcano caused concerns about diving Bali. The hotel is not a dive hotel, but went to great lengths to accommodate a group of approximately 27 divers. The resort did not have enough boats or dive guides, so they hired additional boats and guides so we had max of 6 per boat with 2 dive guides. The resort bought additional tanks to accommodate our large group and ran the nitrox compressor 16-18 hours a day to keep us with full tanks. The resort is across the bay from Bunaken National Marine Park, so with less than 30 minute boat ride we could dive a good variety of profiles from walls, slopes and muck diving. Because it is a bay this was not a pelagic diving destination, but the green turtles were so abundant that I had 2 of 27 dives we did not see turtles. The small critters were abundant and the marine life had really good variety. We never had to dive a site with multiple boats, our guides worked hard to make sure we had a dive site to ourselves which showed their professionalism. We had a day planned in Lembeh and the resort pulled strings so we could eat and have our surface interval at a sister resort and they allowed us to travel with our dive guides. The hotel caters to Chinese tourists, but they bent over backwards to make sure the people that wanted more European cuisine were happy, they allowed people to order a la carte or you could eat the buffet. I ate off the buffet all week as I enjoy Indonesian/Asian cuisine, there was always a good selection of food and one item that was more European in nature. The group wanted to do a couple of day trips, so the resort researched local destinations and made the accommodations. One day we visited a local village of fishermen, the government enacted a law 20 years ago that the fishermen that lived at sea had to come to shore when they had kids so the kids were educated. We were greeted by a crowd of eager kids that wanted to interact with us, but were not begging or being obnoxious. We rented 8-10 small boats and the fishermen took us up the local river for a view of the local nature and fauna, when we returned the village had a local hot tea and banana cakes for us to enjoy. The families came out and wanted pictures of their kids standing with us. Everybody was quite well educated and spoke reasonable English, they were dressed in good clean clothes. Another quick trip was up to a local park on a hill to see the sunset behind the local volcano, the hotel used 2 vans for us and brought a third van to sell us beer and soda for a casual social evening with free snacks available. The final night the group worked with the hotel management and we rented the president's villa to have a cook out with a live band and everything. The staff was allowed to dress up and interact with the group, the staff had as much fun as the group.
Websites	Grand Luley Manodo
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Bonaire, Wakitobi, Galapagos Islands, Florida, Bali,
Closest Airport	Manodo	Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm
Water Temp	82-84°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	40-70 Ft/ 12-21 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Only overall time limits to keep the boats on time .
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
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
UW Photo Comments	The marine life was plentiful and had good variety for all photographers to get plenty of good shots. The boats had camera tanks on each boat the crew was very careful with the cameras to make sure and protect them at all times. The dive shop designated 2 rooms for our group to use as a camera room with plenty of outlets and they had security at night to make sure nothing happened to anybody's camera equipment.

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Dive Review of Grand Luley Manodo in Indonesia/North Sulawesi

Grand Luley Manodo: "Great diving by hotel that is not a dive hotel, but has great diving", Jun, 2018,

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Dive Review of Grand Luley Manodo in
Indonesia/North Sulawesi