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| budget lembeh resort for photographers... |
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Set in a quiet bay on Lembeh Island, NAD Resort & Dive Center is a great modestly priced Lembeh Strait diving option for underwater photographers and experienced divers.
Rooms: 14
Diving in: Lembeh Strait
Dive type: Boat & beach dives
Divers: Max. 28
 
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Diving the Lembeh Strait is a huge drawcard for underwater sharp-shooters and Nomad Adventure Divers are focused on providing a photographer experience. The resort is managed by pro underwater photographers and they have planned the dive centre around these needs, with a logical diver flow after diving. There are lots of large rinse tanks, then a camera drying room and a charging and editing room. Nitrox is available for qualified divers to maximise bottom time and photo opportunities. The clubhouse possesses a projector for photo and video shows.
Also available in the resort is a complimentary wi-fi internet, great for keeping in touch with family and friends back home. A free laundry service is an unusual welcome addition, allowing divers to bring their own equipment and not worry too much about packing lots of clothes for the trip.
The resort is easy to get to, being only a 15 minute boat ride from the arrivals pier over on the mainland. The dive sites too are only a few minutes away from the resort, so you can be gazing at stargazers, mimicking octopus and gawping at the jawfish, just as soon as you're kitted up and the dive guides have given you the '3-2-1' call.
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| rooms, beds, bathrooms, views... |
There are 10 simple but charming rooms set in a curved terrace around the garden, and 4 Deluxe double bed bungalows with Balinese style bathroom, all with balconies with beautiful seaviews. Each room has a large glass façade meaning the rooms are light and open to the vista across the Lembeh Strait and the distant mountains.
The rooms all feature unique hand-made furnishings and decorations, and have en-suite bathrooms. With a jungle backdrop you can fall asleep to the sound of the resident tarsiers.
All the rooms and bungalows have:
- Air-conditioning and fan cooling
- Private bathroom with hot water shower
- Towels and soap
- Seaview and gardenviews
- Balcony with outdoor furniture
- Reading lights
- Drinking water
- Round 2-pin power sockets (adaptors available)
- Clothes rail and shelves
- Dressing table (Deluxe Bungalow only)
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| diving details... |
Nomad's run dive trips throughout the Lembeh Strait and around the island so you can see all the area's muck diving as well as its coral reefs and wrecks.
A membrane system for enriched air nitrox (EANx), small groups and photographer facilities help make Lembeh Strait diving with Nomads a great experience.
The 5 dive boats feature:
- 6-12m fibreglass/wood hull with 1 x 85 HP or 2 x 40 HP engines
- Shaded area with entry & exit ladders
- Dive guide for every 4 divers
- Maximum of 8 divers per boat
- Coffee, tea, drinking water, fruit and local snack
- First aid kit and oxygen
- Towels
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The dive boat usually leaves at 8.00 hrs for 2 dives, and returns for lunch at 12.30 hrs. There is an afternoon dive at 14.30 hrs, a dusk dive for Mandarinfish at 17.00 hrs, and a night dive at 17.45 hrs, depending on the number of divers. Boat journey time is 2-30 mins. Unguided shore diving is free of charge for stays of 5 nights or more, and the resort have sunk 3 wreck on the house reef to attract marine life into the small sheltered cove.
The dive station has a large kit up and dive briefing area, rinse tanks, hot water showers, and 2 camera rooms with charging and cleaning facilities and computers for photo editing. The resort staff will conduct all equipment handling and rinsing for you.
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| Customer reviews: |
"Bernard and Julia can accommodate their guests (really well), it is almost like a family! The guides are very qualified and we made extraordinary meetings, we had in the possibility of choosing our sites. The rooms were simple but comfortable and very good food." - Coralie Ancelin & Eric Duchenet, France ...
"The food was fantastic, always enough, always choice, always diverse and always tasty. The New Year's Eve party was fantastic, not a single bad word and everybody, including staff, owners and guests had a fabulous evening." - Michel Engering, Netherlands ...
"Diving service was very personalised, probably because the resort is catered for a small pool of divers, so we had the chance to know the managers and guide well. Facilities met our expectations for what we paid." - Jeremy Chan, Singapore ...
"Very good staff, dive guides and boat men all very helpful, knowledgeable and friendly; efficient service, the same with the restaurant staff." - Philip Amswych, UK ...
"The service was great. All tanks were set up on arrival and divers had to do very little. Gear was even rinsed off for us and laid out to dry for departure. The resort is on the budget end of the scale so it is not the fanciest with all of the bells and whistles, but the value is very good and the rooms are functional." - David Probert, USA ...
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