Starfish
Posted 14 March 2013 - 05:41 PM
Edited by giulian, 15 March 2013 - 04:55 PM.
Sting Ray
Posted 15 March 2013 - 12:32 AM
The original people at kri island have two resort one upmarket and one medium
Look for Kri resort, I checked this one but then ended up on a liveaboard they have a great reputation this is where dr Allen identified the most number of species on a single dive
Triggerfish
Posted 15 March 2013 - 11:04 AM
We have just returned from our second trip to Kri Eco Resort. Accommodation is basic, wooden huts on stilts over the water and no hot water; doesn't sound all that appealing but the huts are fantastic and we took a £5 solar shower which solved the hot water problem! You can always do a night dive to get a hot mandi at the end of the day. The food and the staff are fantastic. Lots of people commented on how good and how varied the food was compared to other places.
The diving was out of this world. We dived with the oceanic mantas on 6 occasions and with the reef mantas twice. We saw everything from tiny pygmy seahorses to huge shoals of bumphead parrot fish. We did some long day trips to Fam and to The Passage and ticked off most of the 20 nearest dive sites to the resort. Maximum is 6 guests to a boat usually with 2 guides and most sites are within 20 minutes. I can get very seasick but didn't need my scopoderm patches at all.
As I said, it was our second trip to Kri and things were certainly much slicker this time around. We generally left on time, got to the site and our guides always checked the current prior to jumping in. Boat cover was great and we rarely dived a site with other divers on it.
Sharon
Starfish
Posted 16 March 2013 - 03:49 PM
Thanks, interceptor and frogfone, Kri appears to be a popular choice. The use of a portable solar shower bag/pack is indeed a very good idea.
regards
Sperm Whale
Posted 21 March 2013 - 06:22 AM
Max Ammer, the owner of Sorido Bay and Kri Eco resorts is a very special man and I find it a privilege to spend time with him.
I buy my own photographic kit. Diving equipment manufacturers and diving services suppliers get even-handed treatment from me whether they choose to advertise in the publications I write for or not. All the equipment I get on loan is returned as soon as it is finished with. Did you know you can now get Diver Mag as an iPad/Android app?
Wolf Eel
Posted 24 March 2013 - 07:55 PM
I Have stayed at Paupa Paradise had a great stay and will be back there again later this year.
Damselfish
Posted 25 March 2013 - 09:05 AM
I stayed at Raja4Divers this past December and loved it, the resort is beautiful and the diving operation was very good i thought.
Moray Eel
Posted 10 April 2013 - 11:52 AM
As other have said, Kri is special. They have Cape Kri as their "house reef", which during my 20 days stay in Raja Ampat was the best dive I did. Loads (4-5?) of pygmy seahorse, clown frogfish, blacktip, whitetip, napoleons, and very big schools of barracudas and snappers. And Max is a very nice host as well.
/Björn
Wolf Eel
Posted 10 April 2013 - 02:02 PM
Papua Paradise is very nice cabins which are separated from each other (ie no shared walls), the food was good and they didn't mind that we brought our own beer in from town and used their refrigerator to keep them cold. Nice diving there was only one dive that I didn't like (partly because mask broke). I would recommend doing the hidden bay and passage trip as this was very interesting and spectacular. You can see some of the diving that I experienced on the vimeo link below. The found was good and plentiful. I can't compare to a live-aboard in the area though it seems that sometimes they are on a strict itinerary with set dive sites which at times would not be at the best time for the tide or the fish life isn't there at time, we had a very good guide actually the site manager at the time who would check the dive site first before deciding on whether or not it was worthwhile.
And gallery of what I saw while there.
http://mattiovaska.com/gallery/119145
Matti
