Thalassa Dive & Wellbeing Resort Manado

Staff: Universally praised for being friendly, attentive, and hospitable. Guests felt welcomed and supported throughout their stay.(based on 2 reviews)

Second visit to this area. This is the new resort with a very different feel to the previous resort. Excellent dive staff and the diving was brilliant. Great skipper and dive guides. The food at lunch on the boat was delicious. The coral reefs very healthy. So much sea life and so many relaxed chill turtles. The water was a beautiful 28C with mostly excellent visibility. The resort isn’t near the water so it’s a quick five to ten minute trip to the boat each day which isn’t a huge problem. Gives you a chance to view the local area which is fascinating. A few things could have improved my stay - the single rooms were up very steep stairs and they were really quite small and pokey. I didn’t enjoy staying in the single room at all compared to my mates that were couples staying in the lovely villas. I would pay more next time to have a villa! The single rooms were also next to the dive shop so there were shenanigans, tanks banging and the compressor running until late and starting early. I wore my headphones to bed. If you book a single room take ear plugs. The food was quite repetitive - I don’t eat seafood but I’m quite happy to eat vegetarian and the vegetarian food turned out to be acceptable most of the time. The fresh fruit for desert was great but otherwise the deserts were an adventure. I would have liked to have more of the local dishes which they cooked at the Lembeh resort. The restaurant was just so hot in the evening - more fans would improve the eating experience vastly - or vents in the roof to let the hot air out. The massage was excellent but if they did them down in the pool pavilion away from the traffic noise it would be so much more relaxing. Overall a good value holiday with everything you need. A couple of tweaks and upgrading to a villa would make all the difference. I will definitely visit again - the diving is really spectacular.

We had a lovely time at Thalassa dive resort. Staff were super kind and welcoming and always had happy smiley faces. The diving was great with really competent dive staff. Simone and Arjen have done so much for the local community and their passion for the island really shows. They are happy to organise tours for you. We did the Tongkoko national park tour which was amazing, we saw the Tarsier and the Bear cus cus which was a real highlight as well as the Highland tour which was nice to see. Bunaken marine park was incredible, amazingly healthy reef which is hard to find now! So many turtles (huge), soft corals and a wide array of life. Very much looking forward to returning.