Hotel Santika Premiere Seaside Resort Manado presents an excellent range of accommodation options from deluxe rooms to cottages and suites, all overlooking the deep blue coloured sea.
This beautifully adorned four-star hotel with 101 rooms is located on the mainland facing Bunaken Island. It is located only 30 minutes away from the city centre and 40 minutes away from the airport. Hotel Santika Premiere Seaside Resort Manado is certainly a prime destination for most divers, and offers the best accommodation you’ll find in Manado.
Included are such facilities as a restaurant, café and lobby bar overlooking Bunaken Island. Thalassa five-star diving and water sports centre, land sports facilities, drug store, tour bookings, the Amarylis Spa and Fitness Centre and specially appointed rooms equipped for the handicapped.
There are four generously attractive pools including sunken bar in the main pool, children’s pool, diving areas and private suite pools.
Accommodation:
The Garden Bungalows have such facilities as air-conditioning, television, telephone, mini-bar, coffee and tea making facilities plus bathroom with hot and cold water including a bathtub. From the private terrace you look down on the luscious tropical garden. This one room bungalow has a low partition wall to make sure privacy is maintained when sharing the room with a third person.
Diving Holidays:
The Manado area offers a generous slice of the world’s best scuba diving and snorkelling, with plenty of different types of diving on offer including drift, deep and wreckage. The main attractions in this area are the vertical walls and attention grabbing rocks, as well as the fantastically colourful and varied marine life. North Sulawesi was almost exclusively discovered by divers. The answer as to why is obvious; it is one of the richest and most diverse locations in the world.
Specialists claim that in Bunaken National Park alone, you can discover in excess of 58 different genera and sub-genera of corals and in addition an estimated 2000 species of fish. This number becomes even larger if you add the extra species that can be found located in the Bangka Archipelago and Lembeh Strait. This is because here three large water masses join together; the Pacific Ocean, the Sulawesi Sea and the Indian Ocean, combining a rich resource of nutrition to feed the numerous species.
The tidal currents and the grand diversity in the underwater landscape also play a part in contributing to the richness of this underwater paradise. In total the area offers in excess of 150 dive sites and is ideally suited for any level of experience.
Thalassa Dive centre facilitates the best possible diving and snorkelling in the most unique and flexible way. The walls and slopes of Bunaken National Park offer a great wealth of big and small underwater life and the staff will even challenge you to create a wish list for whatever you would enjoying seeing that is smaller than 1 metre and is indigenous for the local area. Because you will dive only in very small groups, maximum 4 divers with 1 guide, the possibility is very high that you will cross everything off your list before you leave.
