Dive Review of Atlantis Beach Resort in
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Atlantis Beach Resort, Apr, 2004, by John Crossley, CA, USA ( Sr. Contributor 29 reports with 12 Helpful votes). Report 1359.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
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Value for $$	N/A
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Comments	Atlantis Beach Resort, Dumaguete, Philippines April, 2004 John Crossley Dumaguete is a pretty nice town accessible directly from flights from Manila. The Atlantis resort is just a 30 minute ride south of the airport. This is a very nice resort in a grove of palm trees, with 35 very comfortable air conditioned rooms, a good pool, and an excellent restaurant with an American Chef (Jake from New York) who really goes the extra mile to find out what you like and then make it the way you like it. Breakfast starts it off with a big buffet with many western and Asian choices. The Atlantis dive operation is very professional and well organized, and they know how to treat photographers. The two wooden pangas can carry 10 to 12 divers, but we never had more than six divers with our two guides. Apo Island trips are arranged every couple of days, and this is the most marketed dive site. It’s a long boat ride (90 minutes) but it has really nice soft corals when the current is flowing, plus lots of tropical fish, a few turtles, sea snakes, and good visibility. However, I thought the best diving was at the numerous shallow sites along the black sand beach close to the resort. Two small wrecks have a great variety of macro critters including ghost pipefish, nudibranchs, lionfish, banded pipefish, decorator crabs, gobies, shrimps, frog fish, dragonettes, sand dollars, etc. We saw several Pegasus sea moths on several dives too, plus juvenile cuttlefish, snake eels, and other macro critters. There was also a Mandarin Fish dive at dusk, but we barely saw three of them. Overall this is a very nice resort with great food and excellent macro diving.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Sipadan, Galapagos, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, Truk, Palau, Yap, Florida, Cayman Islands & more
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm
Water Temp	80-82°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	30-90 Ft/ 9-27 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Depth limits
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	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		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Good Camera rinse buckets at resort, small buckets on dive boats

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Dive Review of Atlantis Beach Resort in Philippines/Dumaguete

Atlantis Beach Resort, Apr, 2004,

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Dive Review of Atlantis Beach Resort in
Philippines/Dumaguete