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Sipadan Mabul Resort


resort with chalets on the beach...
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The Sipadan Mabul Resort, or SMART as it is known locally, sits ideally on 10 acres of prime real estate on the southern shore of the island of Mabul. It's all chalets on a sandy white beach, dotted with palm trees here - the winner of our 'Dive Resort of the Year' award in 2009, a true paradise.

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Rooms: 46
Diving in: Sipadan, Mabul and Kapalai
Dive type: Boat and beach dives
Divers: Max. 92
Enriched air nitrox is available hereInternet is available here
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Mabul is truly blessed with its prime location in being able to offer diving at nearby Sipadan Island in addition to its own world-renowned macro diving havens, and that of Kapalai too. We know the diving here is excellent and that you'll probably want to see as much as you can. That's why Mabul beach dives are free of charge and enriched air nitrox is available.

Sipadan Mabul is perhaps the best equipped of the resorts here for non-diving activities. It has its own swimming pool and there are sea kayaks available for when you're feeling energetic and fancy having a look around the island by sea. The resort also has free wi-fi available for guests.

If you want to get in touch with local cultures and people, the nearby fishing village provides a great venue for meeting and getting to know the locals.

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rooms, beds, bathrooms, views...
There are 22 deluxe stand alone chalets and 24 standard rooms. The stand alone chalets are much larger than the standard rooms and closer to the beach.

All the rooms have:
  • Air-conditioning with individual controls
  • Sea-facing verandah
  • Fan cooling
  • Private shower with hot and cold
  • Bedside lamps
  • Seating
Hot water in all rooms ensures comfortable washing off after a day of diving and lying on the beach. Air conditioning keeps all cool in the tropical climate.
SMART Deluxe stand alone chalet - twin room with air conditioning

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diving details...
When park guest permit numbers allow, there is a 3 or 4 dive trip to Sipadan (including packed lunch). Alternatively it will be a 3 dive day around the great macro diving of Mabul and Kapalai.

Dive boats are:
  • 6 fibreglass boats and 1 wooden dive boat
  • Maximum 10 divers per boat
  • Optional personalised underwater video service
Divemasters are provided on all diving day trips as well as drinking water, hot drinks and lunch.
SMART speed boat at the jetty, ready to take you diving in Sipadan

Extra interest excursions include guided dives into Turtle Cavern at Sipadan, and dives on the SMART-sponsored artificial reef at Mabul - quite a success story. Specialty diving, such as a Sipadan night dive or an early morning dive to see the thresher sharks and hammerheads, can also be arranged on arrival. Sipadan is approximately 25 minutes ride away from Mabul.

Sipadan Mabul Resort offers both recreational and technical diving, with nitrox forming the most popular request in the latter category. Unlimited and unguided shore dives with your own buddy are available free of charge.

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Customer reviews: 

"The dive master genuinely wanted us to have the very best dive experience for every dive; she worked hard to make this happen. The on-the-boat service was also excellent. Really liked the storage bin process at the dive shop. There was always fresh water available to rinse our equipment." - Marie Winkler-Sink, USA ...

"The entire staff were very friendly and obliging. The dive equipment was state of the art and well maintained. Furthermore the board and lodging was excellent, too. To sum up, I'd like to say that we felt like in paradise. The place is not easy to top." - Tobias Neier, Austria ...

"Excellent diving trips, divemasters are very good and friendly. Animations width music or enything else in the evening, will be nice. And unfortunately we can't get bungalows on water." - Zoran San, Slovenia ...

"The staff was extremely friendly and helpful with all of our needs. There was always someone around, if you needed anything you didn't need to look far ... The boat captain and assistant were also great - always a smile and laugh for you. Excellent service from helping you into your BCD to serving tea at the surface intervals ... The divemaster was wonderful. Extremely knowledgeable about the sites. And interested in showing you whatever you wanted to see. Somehow they always managed to find it, no matter how small or rare." - Ahlinn Yamane, Hawaii, USA ...

"Wonderful chalet, relaxed atmosphere, friendly service, nice people, beautiful surroundings, good food, great diving." - Stefanie Schulen, Germany ...

"Very nice resort on a beautiful island. Very professional staff at all levels making us feel very welcome. Equipment and boats were of excellent standard and run by people who knew what they were doing." - Jon Ultimateangling, UK ...

"The SMART diving staff were friendly, professional, very attentive and saftey conscious, making our dives really wonderful experiences where we could just concetrate on the superb marine life without any worries. Patrick was our dive guide and he was brilliant and so were the boat staff. Both the equipment and facilities were great too. There were always books on hand to help us identify the marine life we had seen. We couldn't fault the dive team, their equipment and facilities.
The atmosphere of the resort was very friendly and the food was excellent. The rooms were good too, although we could have done with a mosquito net, and the shower was very weak. The rooms and resort were kept very clean. The transfer to the resort ran very smoothly indeed. We were very impressed!" - Nadia Lanman, UK ...

"NICE SERVICE, SMILING AND HELPFUL STAFF, EVERYTHING WAS WORKING AND HIGH STANDARD." - Jesper Lund, Denmark ...

"Every aspect of the service was excellent. From the pickup at the airport to the greeting, had a really great time there. Great food, friendly staff." - Ben Connelly, Australia ...

"Staff were extremely friendly and competent and flexible." - Peter Wallace, Vanuatu ...

"Everything was up to date and the dive operator and staff were all amicable. This was my first experience diving and the entire experience was great. I couldn't have asked for a more personable staff." - Danny Doncan, USA ...

"Staff were great - from dive master to boat operators and helpers - friendly, approachable and knowledgeable." - Gek Me Lim, Australia ...

"We had a wonderful vacation. The diving was incredible, facilities were good. Rental equipment was very good; dive staff very professional." - Kate Killberg, USA ...

"A resort created for the divers ... every details have been thought of keeping in mind divers expectations. Excellent dive equipement, optimized diving schedule and absolutely amazing staff." - Letitia Lair, France ...

"It was GREAT !!! Specially the staffs around made us just feel at home, rather better than home. They are so cheerful, humble, hospitable, courteous, patient and customer ervice oriented. The equipments were well maintained keeping in view the safety standards. The place where they were stored was really good. Really mouth watering, fresh and tasty food. The facilities provided were second to none." - Ali Reza Tehrani, India ...

"Everything was excellent except for the pre-dive briefings which I thought were always too short and didn't give enough information, e.g. no diagram of the dive site, very basic description of the dive site, no information about wildlife that could be expected to be observed. Also, the DMs did not take time to discuss what was seen or give personal feedback on diving skills etc. The DMs were lovely people but I feel could offer more to the guest diver to make the dive experience better." - Andrew Spedding, UK ...

"Staff was very helpful, organized, knowledgeable and accommodating. The facilities were good, relaxed and comfortable. The only thing we didn't like was the fact that the boats ran on 2 stroke motors which stank (lots of blue smoke) and left oil slicks on the water. I think it would greatly improve the enjoyment of the trip if the boats used better 4 stroke motors.
Also we found that the amount of litter on the beach and in the water disturbing. I know the village contributes greatly to that problem and the resort tries to keep things tidy but when you see plastic bottles and bags and cans floating on this beautiful piece of paradise it makes you wonder.
The staff were excellent. The food was adequate but was often not kept very hot. Most meals were lukewarm. Personally I'd like to see more fruit and fresh vegetables." - Cynthia Nyboer, Canada ...

"I certainly had a great time. Everything was brilliant and I was really pleased. 5 out of 5 all round. The attention to detail was brilliant by the staff." - Richard Chere, UK ...

"The whole experience with Sipadan Mabul Resort was fantastic and memorable. We had a very warm welcome the moment we were picked up by the boatman in Semporna. The resort is extremely organised and the service overall was excellent.
We were very impressed with how they were on time for every dive planned and also for the way they organised/ assembled/ cared for our diving gears. We loved the fact that the staff on the boat even remembered everyone's diving gears and helped us to get ready before each dive and they were all friendly and helpful. The divemasters were also very friendly and professional. We enjoyed our dives so much that we are missing the islands now. The food was good and enough to eat, and we enjoyed our room as well." - Ennee Schultz, Australia ...

"The boatmen were excellent and our dive master was okay. We were on one drift dive with 11 people with one guide! The best diver to guide ratio was when we went to Sipadan and there were 7 divers which was great. We rented BCDs and regs and all were newer.
The facility was very nice. Our first room did not have hooks, hangers or a safe and it faced the village so a little noisy. An individual cabana was available after our first night and it was much better and the bathroom was a huge improvement. The price difference was not great so in the future you might mention that to customers.
The tax an alcohol is really high and the best buy is the wine. I ordered a mixed drink that was very small with little if any alcohol and cost about 18 US$." - Tamara Johnston, Guam ...

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