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Bilikiki Cruises: "Good trip with variety", Aug, 2016, by Mark Vanderlinden, CA, US ( Reviewer 6 reports with 3 Helpful votes). Report 9414 has 1 Helpful vote.
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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
Overall Rating
Value for $$
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Comments	Overall great trip. Plenty of wide angle and macro opportunities. Underwater visibility was variable at most sites with the best overall in the Russell Islands. This was my first trip to this location. Due the distance and time to get there we did two live aboard trips back to back. I would recommend if possible to arrive in Honiara one to two days before the trip starts to get acclimated and rest up as it makes the trip much more enjoyable. The city of Honiara in my opinion a not a great place to stay for an extended length of time other than to rest up and get acclimated. It looks like a ghetto and has limited quality places to eat and stay. The upside are the people are very friendly and polite. As indicated in previous reports the crew and service on the Bilikki is still outstanding and they went out of their way to address concerns and correct problems if they came up. I will definitely make a return trip in the future.
Websites	Bilikiki Cruises
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	California, Florida, Hawaii, Micronesia (Palau, Yap, Truk), Wake and Johnston Is, Malysia (Sipadan), Okinawa, Maldives, Indonesia (Bali and Wakatobi)
Closest Airport	Honiara	Getting There	LA via Fiji to Solomons
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, rainy, cloudy, dry	Seas	calm, choppy, surge, currents, no currents
Water Temp	80-82°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	30-100 Ft/ 9-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	No real restrictions rather than watch your depth if using nitrox and no deco diving
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	1 or 2
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	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Pretty good set up considering on our trip , many participants had camera rigs that took up a lot of space. The battery charging area was in a separate room upstairs. They had great rinse tanks with the water changed regularly and crew handled the equipment with good skill and care

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Dive Review of Bilikiki Cruises in Solomon Islands

Bilikiki Cruises: "Good trip with variety", Aug, 2016,

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Dive Review of Bilikiki Cruises in
Solomon Islands