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Sipadan Kapalai Dive Resort


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Built on stilts over a sandbank, the Sipadan Kapalai Resort is a unique water village which gives you the thrilling experience of watching reef fish swimming underneath your water chalets during your leisure time. Winner of our 'Dive Resort of the Year' award in 2010, this is the place to go to for an idyllic ocean holiday.

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Rooms: 41
Diving in: Kapalai, Sipadan and Mabul Island
Dive type: Boat and beach dives
Divers: Max. 82
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This environmentally friendly resort stands alone on the mile long sand bank of the Ligitan Reefs located in the Sulu Sea. Your days will be filled with sun tanning on the beach or your private balcony, and marvelling at the world class dive sites around Kapalai and Mabul, as well as day trips to Sipadan Island with its outstanding wall dives. Each trip ends with great food and freshly cooked snacks after diving.

If you've never tried macro diving before, then you're in for a treat - what a place to start! Shore diving at Kapalai is free of charge, as is the wonderful snorkelling, where you can watch the spectacularly colourful mating mandarinfish, right under the resort jetty. It's easy to fall in love with macro diving when it's this simple!

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The Sipadan Kapalai Dive Resort is a charming wooden water village built on stilts with 41 individual water chalets, all with private balconies and en-suite bathrooms.

All the chalets have:
  • Fan cooling
  • Sea view, beachfront balcony with chairs
  • Private hot water shower and bath
  • Towels and toiletries
  • Bedside lamps
  • Seating area
  • 220 volt power points
Double room chalet at Sipadan Kapalai Dive Resort

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diving details...
Diving around Kapalai is exceedingly easy because of the generally shallow dive sites. The resort offers speedboat trips with 3-4 boat dives per day to its neighbouring islands of Sipadan and Mabul, except for 2 dives on the day of arrival (depending on arrival time) and none on day of departure.

Where park permit numbers allow, you will make a 4 dive trip to Sipadan. All Sipadan dives are done in the morning with refreshments served between dives and the dive boat returning to the resort in time for lunch. Alternatively it will be a 3 dive day around Kapalai and Mabul.

Dive boats specifications:
  • Monohull dive speed boats
  • Twin engine
  • Maximum 10 divers per boat
One of the Kapalai speed boats, used for diving at Sipadan Island, Malaysia

Dive guides are provided on all diving day trips as well as refreshments. Unlike the other resorts in the area, the dive boat returns to the resort in between dives. Boat journey time is about 15 minutes.

Night dives, jetty day dives and sunset dives to see the mandarinfish, are available free of charge with a dive buddy.

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Customer reviews: 

"The service was friendly, professional and fun. Equipment could have been a little more suited for the individual ... more female wetsuits for rent. But food, service and all staff were excellent." - Kira Goodwin, Canada ...

"Equipments are in good condition. Our children had just their open water certificate. My younger son is just 12 years old. We had a dive master for our family. He was very patient and helpful. We appreciate the perfect organisation of the dive centre. Everything was ready when we arrived for diving. We are really grateful for the help (putting on the equipment) from the dive crew. Between 2 dives - juice, water, tea, coffee were always served." - Yan Lin, France ...

"Very good resort, well organised, friendly staff, however staff sometimes incorrectly set up my gear e.g tank band too lose which was disppointing. There were many optional dives that I struggled to find a buddy for as a solo diver and feel that maybe a board for 'buddies wanted' or similar would be good; but other than that no complaints!" - Paula Walters, UK ...

"Because non-divers have nothing to do there except snorkeling & eating, basically Kapalai's really good for those who wanna go for diving only. They should arrange some activities for those who are not diving except the snorkeling. I meant if there's such as trips to the near islands with a tours would be nice." - Salem Hussein, UAE ...

"We had our own gear with us but the service was really good. Kapalai took care of our equipment and made diving really easy, e.g they even helped me to put my fins on. =) Facilities were really amazing too and the buffet food was tasty." - Marjaana Torkkeli, Finland ...

"The resort was excellent, well maintained, wonderfully organised and all the staff were incredibly friendly. The food was fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed the holiday and would definitely recommend it." - Lindsay Underwood, Hong Kong ...

"We have really enjoyed our stay. Great food, very friendly staff and amazing dives. All DM great guys. We wish we could stay a while longer." - Marcello de Valle, London, United Kingdom ...

"You are very lucky people that you have this virgin piece of nature. It is fantastic. Take care of this place to be able other people to visit and enjoy Kapalai paradise!!" - Irina, Moscow, Russia ...

"Awesome diving spots!! Had a really great time here and this is one spot I will definitely come back to. Thank you to everyone who has made this trip such an enjoyable one!" - Wei Woh Goh, Singapore ...

"The resort itself is beautiful and I thoroughly enjoyed my time there - I only wish I could have stayed longer. Needless to say, the diving was exceptional!! I have been dreaming of diving Sipadan for many years so had high expectations, in spite of which my mind was well and truly blown!" - Nicki Hearne, United Kingdom ...

"I thought the staff was for the most part excellent, some are much better than others ... Facilities were excellent." - David Probert, USA ...

"Very unique resort! Everything was well organised, from the pickup, the dives, the accomodation, the food and the overall service. The resort has tremendous amount of staff, and everything was above expectations." - Sophie Ballara, Switzerland ...

"The people at Kapalai are extremely friendly and the resort itself is heaven. This ensured we all had a great holiday." - Amund Frislie, Norway ...

"Absolutely fantastic. Great service, friendly staff, good food. A dream destination." - Jana Marit Schuele, Sweden ...

"I just wanted to drop you a line as you organised our stay at Kapalai and we had a fantastic time. We had a really lovely bungalow, great food and sensational diving - it couldn't have been a better few days. We only wished it were longer! The staff you have at Kapalai are exceptional and looked after us well. I have already passed on your details to quite a few friends who saw the pictures and were impressed!" - Vicky van Veeren, South Africa ...

"Everything excellent at the resort - the people were great, the accommodation was stunning, the food was good and the diving was beyond belief on Sipidan." - Alistair Brown, United Kingdom ...

"The dive and dive support teams were of very high standard as were the hospitality of the staff and comfort and cleanliness of the facilities." - Mahgoub Hassan, United Kingdom ...

"Staff at Kapalai were very helpful, welcoming beyond expectations. The facilities were very good and the food was fantastic." - Veronica Smith, Australia ...

"Resort facilities are excellent; rooms are beautiful; staff is friendly and diving was excellent." - Gaelle Ulvoas, France ...

"Staff were very polite and service was excellent. Accommodation was excellent with very nice view from terrace and on the night time water is lighted and you can see turtles, stingrays etc." - Lars Ojansuu, Finland ...

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