Mindoro, Philippines dive holidays
Atlantis Puerto Galera Resort
Well-regarded beachfront dive resort that is perfectly positioned to discover the tremendous diving of Puerto Galera.
Built into the hillside on Sabang Beach, minutes away from over 40 dive spots, Atlantis Puerto Galera is the ideal base from which to explore some of the best diving in Asia.
The resort’s 40 rooms are attractively nestled amongst lovely grounds stocked with plants and flowers. Atlantis Puerto Galera is renowned for its excellent amenities and service including a dedicated camera room and well-equipped dive centre.
The waters surrounding Puerto Galera have been a designated UNESCO ‘Man and Biosphere Reserve’ since 1973 and are home to some of the most biodiverse diving in the Coral Triangle.
Hotel Services/Facilities: The resort is well-placed for both diving and exploring further afield in Mindoro. Guests can relax by the freshwater pool which offers the perfect combination of sun and shade. A range of therapeutic and relaxing Spa services is also available including various massages, facials, manicures and hot wax treatments for post-dive pampering.
Most of areas of the resort have Wi-Fi connection and internet is free during your stay.
Atlantis Puerto Galera has an on-site dive centre and a spacious 17 square metre, climate-controlled Camera Room with plenty of facilities including 30 individual cubbyholes and two desktop PCs.
Food, Beverage & Entertainment Facilities: Toko’s Restaurant has become synonymous with fine dining. Using fresh local products and flavours but made to an international standard, they offer daily changing chalkboard lunch and dinner menus, theme nights, plus a Mongolian Wok. Choose from an extensive list of cocktails and soft drinks or enjoy great coffee.
The beachfront 50 Bar is the perfect place to enjoy a sunset drink while chatting about the day’s diving with fellow guests or the dive team. Open daily from 3pm to late.
Transfers: Accessible from Manila or any part of Luzon by van to Batangas (approx. two hours from Manila) and then boat to Puerto Galera (approx. one hour).
Atlantis Resort’s 40 rooms and suites are open plan and spacious in design. All rooms have en-suite with shower, safe, TV with cable, air-conditioning, ceiling fan, minibar and refrigerator.
Deluxe Rooms offer 1 double bed or 1 double and 1 twin bed.
Seaview and Coconut Terrace Rooms each have 2 double beds and private balcony with sea view.
Executive and Honeymoon Suites have one king bed, additional living area, a DVD player and flat screen TV with cable and a coffee/tea maker.
Premier Sea View Suites have one king size bed and 2 twin beds (bunk beds), DVD player and flat screen TV with cable and a coffee/tea maker. Two of these suites also offer a private balcony with sea view.
The Family Suite has one double bed and 2 twin beds (bunk beds).
Atlantis Resort’s dive facilities support all levels of recreational divers, Nitrox as well as rebreather and technical diving. Try dives are available for non-divers, and guests can partake in SSI training courses and most specialties.
The dive centre is spacious and well-equipped with a purpose-built training pool and classroom, high quality rental equipment, a hot water shower in the dive shop, and 60 individual equipment storage cubby-holes to keep your equipment dry and organized. Fresh beach towels, snacks and drinking water are provided daily.
Packages are booked to include unlimited scheduled boat diving – typically five dives a day including night dives. Diving is generally in small groups of no more than six people and private diving is available on request. The majority of dive spots are reachable within a ten-minute boat ride from resort.
Day trips (extra charge) can be organised to Verde Island and Anilao.
The Verde Island trip is a one-hour boat ride from resort and includes a BBQ beach lunch and diving at the Verde Island Passage, a bucket-list site for Philippines diving and the so-called “centre of the centre of biodiversity” in the Coral Triangle.
From wide angle to macro, Puerto Galera offers over 40 dive sites along its coast, with great diversity from relaxed critter diving (a haven for photographers!) with an abundance of reef fish, to wonderful drift dives and the chance to see pelagics in the strong currents. Several inner bays offer shallow coral gardens and sandy patches, while the outer bay walls offer incredibly vivid corals, with canyons, swim throughs, rock formations and a couple of small wrecks with heaps of reef fish.
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