INDONESIA

New Kasawari Lembeh Resort!!
"Luxury in Lembeh" Northern Sulawesi
see www.kasawari.com


Package Includes: • Deluxe Villa Acc • 3 Boat Dives Daily • All meals • RT Airport transfers

Nights	#of Dives	Deluxe Villa (8)	Kasawari Villa (2)	Nitrox Pkg
4 Days/3 Nights	6	$645	$785	$45
5 Days/4 Nights	9	875	1035	65
6 Days/5 Nights	12	1120	1320	86
7 Days/6 Nights	15	1365	1605	102
8 Days/7 Nights	18	1595	1870	122
9 Days/8 Nights	21	1815	2135	142

Single Supplement: Deluxe Villa $95 Kasawari Villa $140 per night Group Policy: 9 paid receive 1 FOC
Accommodation Only: Twin or Double sharing with full board meal service and transfers Deluxe Villa $155 Kasawari Villa $195
Additional Dive: $40 Nitrox A La carte: $ 8 per tank
Payment Terms: To secure booking a non-refundable deposit of $150 per person is required. Full payment must be made 45 days prior to date of arrival.

A report on Kasawari Resort by Tony Wu (Fins Magazine, Singapore)

My visit to Lembeh was courtesy of the new Kasawari Lembeh Resort. I have only one thing to say — Every dive resort in the world should be like this! In all seriousness, Kasawari is one of the best dive resorts I’ve ever visited. Over the years, I’ve dived all over the world, and I’ve been fortunate enough to visit some awesome destinations. Like most dive travellers, I go to far-flung places to see marine life, and I’m accustomed to putting up with minor inconveniences — from poor airlines to less-than-ideal accommodations, and everything in between. As long as I see what I’m looking for, I’m quite tolerant.Staying at Kasawari, however, was a sheer joy. First, it’s a boutique resort, with only 10 cabins, for a maximum of 20 guests. To call the accommodations “cabins” doesn’t quite do them justice though. They’re more like “villas”, something you’d expect from a luxury resort in Bali or the Maldives. The rooms are spacious and extremely comfortable, with large bathrooms, an outdoor shower, and wonderfully hot water (an absolute must for diving Lembeh).

Second, the resort is specifically geared toward photo and video buffs. The camera room is the biggest I’ve seen anywhere — 17 workstations, each with two charging points and a storage shelf. Even with all my gear spread out in the usual chaotic clutter, there was plenty of space — so much so that I felt obliged to make an even bigger mess than normal. Here’s the kicker — the resort has a very well thought-out system of placing your camera gear in baskets. The dive crew take your cameras to and from the dive boat in the baskets, where they’re locked down into custom-built racks to hold the baskets — no worrying about camera parts flying everywhere! And after the dive, the crew bring the cameras up to the enormous dive platform, where they dunk your gear (still in the baskets) into huge freshwater rinse tanks! When you want to work on your cameras, the crew carry your cameras (again still in baskets) to the camera room for you.