Dive Review of Siladen Resort in
Indonesia/Bunaken

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Siladen Resort: "Well worth returning to.", Jul, 2018, by David E Reubush, VA, US ( Top Contributor 68 reports with 35 Helpful votes). Report 10520 has 2 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	N/A
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Comments	My dive buddy and I were scheduled to go to Lembeh for a trip organized by Burt Jones and Maurine Shimlock to dive with Drs. Gerry Allen and Mark Erdmann. He convinced me that we needed to spend some time at another location to make going through the pain of flying all that way more worthwhile. He suggested Siladen Resort, which I had never been to, but had heard good things about. Plus, I knew Ana and Miguel, the young couple who run the resort, from a previous trip to Lembeh Resort when they were there. I’m glad I went. Siladen Resort is situated on Siladen Island in the Bunaken Marine Park. The resort is in a beautiful location, extending along a white sand beach with some of the cottages fronting on the beach and some a bit inland. Ours (Alamanda) was inland, but was the closest to the dive center which made it very convenient. The cottages were spacious and comfortable. The A/C worked fine. There is a large, open-air restaurant where breakfast is served as well as other meals when the weather doesn’t cooperate for lunch and/or dinner on the beach. The food was plentiful and good. Diving was also very good. Bunaken has some great wall dives (Some ended up as drift dives while others we had to swim.) as well as a few muck sites which were good, but not equal to Lembeh. The marine life appeared to be healthy and plentiful. Of particular interest was the abundance of big turtles which were mainly greens with a few hawksbill thrown in for good measure. At Lekuan I, which we dove on 2 separate afternoons, we encountered more than 25 turtles on each dive. The visibility for most of the wall dives was greater than 100 ft., while for the muck sites it was more in the 50 to 60 ft. range. The only issue I had the whole time we were there was we were scheduled for 2 muck sites one morning and found that a current was running at both. Instead of moving to other sites we did the dives anyway. It’s a bit difficult to shoot macro subjects when you are being pulled along by the current. Otherwise, I thoroughly enjoyed both the resort and the diving and will definitely return.
Websites	Siladen Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Australia, Belize, Bimini, Bonaire, Caymans, Curacao, Fiji, Galapagos, Indonesia (Wakatobi, Raja Ampat, Komodo, Lembeh, Bali, Banda Sea), Philippines, Red Sea, Solomon Islands, Southern Bahamas, St. Thomas, Turks & Caicos
Closest Airport	Manado	Getting There	Fly to either Jakarta or Bali and then get a flight to Manado. Jakarta is generally cheaper than Bali and has direct flights to Manado while you may have to make an intermediate stop if you are flying from Bali. You will be picked up at the Manado airport and driven around an hour to the coast north of Manado where you will take a short boat ride to Siladen.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm, currents, no currents
Water Temp	79-82°F / 26-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Don't run out of air or have your computer go into deco.
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 boat crew handled our cameras very carefully. The on-shore camera room was BIG. There were rinse tanks outside the camera room. Inside, there were plenty of individual work stations with lots of power outlets to facilitate battery charging and storage underneath for Pelican cases etc.

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By Duane Silverstein in CA, US at Oct 08, 2018 18:42 EST

Thanks for another thoughtful review, David. Duane S.

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Dive Review of Siladen Resort in Indonesia/Bunaken

Siladen Resort: "Well worth returning to.", Jul, 2018,

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Dive Review of Siladen Resort in
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