Sulawesi Diving Charter - Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi. Indonesia
INTRODUCTION
Sulawesi Dive Charter
Explore further, in luxurious comfort
Sulawesi Dive Charter expands on Dive Resort’s tradition of premier services and excellent diving. Venturing into seldom-visited and remote corners of the Tukang Besi archipelago, all the guests enjoy cruises of adventure and discovery of distant reefs, green island lagoons, and abundant diving sites.
Enjoy more space per guest than any dive charter of its kind, Wakatobi Dive Charter cruises to sites where no other diving operation has gone before. Guests enjoy the personalized service and exclusive amenities of a world-class motor yacht.
With a maximum of ten guests, Wakatobi dive charter offers more space per guest than any dive charter of its kind. All the interior areas are air-conditioned with individual controls. Guests enjoy an unlimited water supply, both hot and cold, and fresh towels daily.
The Sulawesi dive charter’s two custom-made 18ft rigid hull inflatable dive tenders are equipped with double 50HP four-stroke outboard engines, secure stainless steel ladders, and tank racks. These tenders are comfortable and easy to enter and exit.
THE ACCOMMODATION
On board at Sulawesi luxury dive charter, you’ll feel that you are in a tropical floating boutique hotel. Enjoy ever-changing topside and underwater vistas. All the cabins have been masterfully designed for aesthetics and comfort. Spacious floor plans, modern decor, and luxurious bathrooms create a relaxing environment.
With a maximum of ten guests, Wakatobi dive charter offers more space per guest than any dive charter of its kind. All the interior areas are air-conditioned with individual controls. Guests enjoy an unlimited water supply, both hot and cold, and fresh towels daily.
Sulawesi luxury dive charter offers four options for accommodation: Master suite, Superlux cabin, Deluxe cabin and Standard cabin:
MASTER SUITE
Ultimate dive yacht accommodation
The beautiful master suite that expands through the full width of the vessel (and occupies the entire bow on the main deck) lets you enjoy all the comforts of home and is the largest cabin on any other dive motor yacht that we know of.
A King Size bed provides relaxing and restful sleep. A spacious lounge with a love seat offers the perfect place to watch videos on the flat HD TV with Blu-ray DVD player, read, listen to music, or work on your laptop – in complete privacy. The roomy bathroom is contemporary with decor and equipment, featuring a rainforest shower and vanity fittings.
DELUX CABIN
Perfect accommodation for a couple or dive buddies looking for their private space. The cabin features two beds; one wide enough for two people, the other comfortably accommodate one person. Ample cupboards and a small loveseat provide a place to sit, read, and maintain your diving log. The cabin also has a spacious bathroom with a shower and a toilet. Air-conditioned with private controls.
SUPERLUX CABIN
The Superlux cabins offer bright spa-like environments for guests. From the large floor plan to the wall art and the tiniest decor details, the cabins evoke a feeling of tranquility and restfulness. Both cabins feature a walk-around, queen-size bed and a separate day bed/generously proportioned extra bed.
Conviniently hanging bedside tables as well as floor-to-ceiling wardrobes, not forget to mention large drawers under the beds. All of these offer guests ample space to store personal belongings. Adjustable reading lights hang from the headboards for comfortable night-time reading. Beautiful bathrooms feature a glass shower area, a significant vanity with spa-like fixtures and nice lighting. Of course, the cabins are air-conditioned with private controls.
ESSENTIALS CABIN
Perfect for divers who prefer to focus more on the boat’s common areas and of course their diving. The standard cabin features two single beds opposite each other. There is a built-in storage for storing personal items. This cabin also has a newly-refurbished bathroom with a shower and a toilet and is air-conditioned with private control.
Dining
Wakatobi luxury dive charter offers a Sulawesi Resort experience in all respects, and that includes the dining. The dive charter has an experienced onboard chef and team, a well-equipped galley and ample storage for provisions.
Diving punctuated with chef-prepared specialties
Every day’s culinary experince begins with breakfast, prepared to your order and usually served on the aft deck. When you go back to the boat charter for a break in between a couple of dives, a welcoming selection of hot drinks and the chef’s freshly prepared snacks will be awaiting you. Our experienced chef creates à la carte menus for lunch and dinner; a tasty selection of Indonesian specialties along with Western favorites. A fine wine selection and spirits are available as well as soft drinks and juices.
THE ACTIVITIES
Luxury Diving
A dive experience that will fascinate and will be remembered. Wakatobi was created with the vision, keeping in mind geography, climate, oceanic topography and marine biodiversity. The ultimate dive experience that resulted from an extensive search to identify the perfect location, which now is one of world’s largest privately protected marine reserves. That gives you an idea of our total attention to details, which reflects in every aspect of the Wakatobi experience.
Having identified the premier location, we developed a dive resort that, regardless of its remote position, offers stunning facilities and comfort to make a dive trip, and all that surrounds it, an experience that you will cherish.
MARINE LIFE
Sulawesi island is located at the world’s epicenter of coral reef biodiversity. The greatest variety and diversity of marine life every time you dive. New and unregistered species continue to be discovered at Sulawesi.
Unlimited diving on pristine, protected coral reefs it’s all at your doorstep. Nowhere else do you have such an easy to access to miles of pristine reefs with diverse topography, life, and highlights. In other locations, you collect the good dive sites together over large areas with perhaps long and arduous boat journeys in between and might not even get close to what Wakatobi offers out there right at the doorstep.
Luxury Dive Charter
The Wakatobi dive charter’s two custom-made 18ft rigid hull inflatable dive tenders are equipped with double 50HP four-stroke outboard engines, secure stainless steel ladders, and tank racks. These tenders are comfortable and easy to enter and exit.
Diving is always carried out from the tenders as they let us transport divers directly to the dive sites more precisely than would be possible from the main charter boat. Tanks are quickly filled using whips from the main dive charter thus there’s no need to take the dive gear off the tenders until the very end of the cruise. Our helpful, camera-aware crew is always ready to lend a hand.
ITINERARY
A varied itinerary of bays, walls, and critters
Wakatobi Dive Charter’s sorties will show you a different kind of diving to that seen at the resort. If you’ve dived sites around Wakatobi Dive Resort before, you would definitely want to expand your dive adventures to the reef systems beyond the island of Tomia.
LOCATION & GETTING HERE
Location
WAKATOBI, SOUTHEASTERN SULAWESI, INDONESIA
Tranquil, remote, exclusive, yet readily accessible.
You will enjoy the peace and secluded location of Wakatobi; no traffic pollution, noise, no other divers for at least 100 miles. Nevertheless, we are far off the beaten track, our private charter flight will transport you from Bali island to Wakatobi in less than three hours, followed by a short boat ride to our dive resort and your tropical vacation will begin.
Wakatobi National Park is a marine national park located south of mainland South East Wakatobi in Indonesia. The park is well known among divers worldwide as one of the world’s best dive sites. The name Wakatobi is a composition of names of the four Tukangbesi Islands: Wangi-Wangi, Kaledupa, Tomia, and the last but not least, Binongko. In 2005 the park has been added to a list of the World Heritage Site.
Getting Here
BALI – Wakatobi
Our Wakatobi-Bali air charter is a private transfer from Bali to Wakatobi in just three hours, meaning you are saving your precious vacation time and enjoy the ease of getting to paradise. At the moment, we offer flights twice a week, Monday and Friday. You will leave Bali in the morning and arrive at the dive resort in time for a tropic lunch. Turboprop aircraft capacity is 70 seats. Enjoy ample allowances for your checked and carry-on luggage.
Flights are departing from Bali around 8am on the outward leg to the resort, and returning to Bali around 3pm on the same day. Check-in time for the charter flights from Bali to Wakatobi Resort’s private airstrip is at 06:45h.
FLYING TO BALI
Bali is well served by many international airlines that provide a broad range to suit any budget and schedule from any point around the world. International flights to Bali from the US and Europe are conveniently arranged with any of the popular carriers listed below. Our dive resort Sulawesi also offers a Bali-based concierge staff, who can arrange all details of overnight or extended stays in Bali.
Airlines:
- Singapore Airlines
- Cathay Pacific
- KLM
- Garuda
- Korean Air
- Malaysia Airlines
- China Airlines
- Thai Airways
- EVA
- Jetstar
- Virgin Australia
- Qatar Airways
- Emirates
- Asiana
- Hong Kong Airlines
Traveling from the US If you are flying from the US to Bali, you will be flying over the international dateline, meaning that you will lose a calendar day when you arrive in Bali and gain a calendar day when you return to the States.
Check out more information on Bali Airport website https://bali-airport.com/en
Arrival in Bali From the moment you land in Bali and pass through immigration post, the dive resort Sulawesi staff are there to greet you and guide you through baggage claim and customs and assist with ground transportation, including pre-arranged driver services.
PRICES & PACKAGES
LUXURY DIVE CHARTER
INCLUSIONS:
- Three tasty gourmet meals a day
- VIP greeting and assistance upon your arrival in Bali
- Your chosen accommodation
- In-room amenities: towels and hairdryer
- 24 hours tea/coffee / hot chocolate/drinking water, and daily snacks
- Aromatherapy bath products in all of the cabins
- Optional Village Tour on the last day
RATES
Per person/per night
Essentials Cabin
Double $315 / Single $540
Deluxe Cabin
Double $360 / Single $640
Superluxe Cabin
Double $440 / Single $770
(Additional adult: $320)
Master Suite
Double $520 / Single $940
LUXURY DIVING & SNORKELING
- 4 x 70 min dives or snorkels with guides from twin-engine tenders
- Snacks, drinks, and towels provided on the boats
- Full porterage for dive / snorkel gear / cameras
- Dive valet for rinsing and drying gear
- A substantial contribution to the award-winning conservation program 24/7 management on staff
- Daily housekeeping service
RATES
(Per person, per day)
Diving $220 + VAT
Snorkeling $170 + VAT
Private Dive/Snorkel Experience Manager (4 days min)* $250 + VAT
PRIVATE AIR CHARTER
Resort/Dive Charter guests (per pers):
Adults: $645*
Children: 0-3 y.o $67.5* / 4-9 y.o $540*
Non-guests (per pers)
$1135
* prices are base rates, and may fluctuate by up to 20% in either direction depending on demand.
