Wakatobi Dive Resort

How To Get There

The resort is located on Tomia Island in Wakatobi Marine National Park. Guests are served by a direct private charter flight from Bali which takes less than three hours to arrive at the purpose-built airstrip. Afterward, a brief boat ride awaits to commence your vacation at our Wakatobi Dive Resort.

Dive Overview

Scuba diving in Wakatobi is a unique and remarkable experience due to its thriving marine ecosystem and diverse array of sea life. The area is known for its crystal clear waters, vibrant coral reefs, and an abundance of marine species, including sea turtles, manta rays, and numerous species of fish. Wakatobi's remote location and conservation efforts have helped preserve the marine environment, creating an ideal destination for scuba diving enthusiasts seeking a pristine and immersive underwater adventure.

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Accommodation Overview

The villas and bungalows at Wakatobi offer spacious and comfortable accommodation a few steps away from the ocean. They come with air conditioning, Wi-Fi, and all-inclusive meals and snacks. Wakatobi provides a relaxing environment with personalized service, appetizing food, and excellent diving opportunities. A variety of accommodations are offered at our resort to cater to your personal preferences, including Two-Bedroom Pool Villas, One-Bedroom Villas, Turtle Beach Bungalows, Ocean Bungalows, and Palm Bungalows.

Food & Drinks

Guests are often pleasantly surprised by the refined cuisine offered in this remote location. All meals and snacks are included in the price, featuring a diverse selection of Indonesian, Asian, and international dishes. Mealtimes at the Beach Restaurant are a culinary adventure, and the Jetty bar is the perfect spot to enjoy a drink while watching the stunning Wakatobi sunset and stars come out.

Meals are served buffet-style, but this is no ordinary buffet. It is always restocked, kept fresh and hot, and features a variety of dishes. In addition to the buffet, dinner also includes stations for the day's roast and soup, as well as a selection of desserts. Friendly wait staff are always available to serve drinks, including soda, fresh fruit juice, beer, and imported wines, as well as gourmet cappuccino, espresso, and a variety of teas.

Dive Information

Dive Overview

Nowhere else can you access miles of pristine reefs with such ease, featuring diverse topography, life, and highlights like at Wakatobi. In other locations, good dive sites may be scattered over large areas, requiring long and arduous boat journeys. But at Wakatobi, you can find all of these sites right at your doorstep.

The world-famous house reef is a diver's paradise, and some guests never leave it, finding enough territory and diversity to explore for several days. Wakatobi offers "taxi-boat" services to transport you to and from different parts of the house reef.

Experience a new dimension in diving with fluorescence, where fish suddenly speak and coral communicates in a totally new light. Night diving at Wakatobi is fantastic, with one or two night dives offered from the boats (depending on trip length and weather). You can also dive any night on the house reef in front of the resort with an unguided buddy team.

Wakatobi has over 40 sites regularly dived, all accessible by day boats ranging from 10 minutes to an hour for the farthest sites. Their Private Dive Experience Manager program offers personalized resort diving tailored to your individual needs.

The entire Wakatobi region is now a sustainable protected marine park, with the local village and surrounding communities enthusiastically adopting conservation plans. Your payment for staying and diving at Wakatobi goes back to the community to sustain and support this new way of living, in harmony with and respect for the coral reef ecosystem.

Marine Life

Wakatobi is located at the worlds epicenter of coral reef biodiversity and is designated a UNESCO Marine Biosphere Reserve. This means that while diving at Wakatobi you can see the greatest variety and diversity of marine life. Youll not only see beautiful vistas or pristine coral reefs, but also abundant colorful reef fish and rare and unusual cryptic critters. New and undocumented species continue to be discovered at Wakatobi.

There are other locations where you can see larger schools of fish, bigger animals and experience more adrenaline-filled underwater rides, but for sheer reef scenery and marine life variety, you wont be disappointed with a diving holiday at Wakatobi.

Dive Center Information

Wakatobi Dive Resort Dive Center Overview

Remote doesnt mean Spartan. They cater to air, Nitrox, and rebreather users as well as snorkelers and freedivers with comprehensive support facilities. And if you like to travel light, they offer a full range of premium quality gear for rental including regulators, masks, fins, dive computers, BCDs and torches.

Wakatobi Dive Resort Dive Center Features

• Dedicated Professional Dive Staff
• Private Dive or Snorkel Experience
• First class facilities in the dive center
• Comfortable and spacious day boats
• Access to the resorts near vicinity by tender
• Support for Nitrox divers
• Dive courses including nitrox certification
• Wakatobi Resort is associated with PADI, SDI & TDI
• Technical Diving Services