Thalassa Dive & Wellbeing Resort Manado

Resort

Amazing resort, beautiful authentic large rooms, fantastic food, wonderful people and staff and OUT OF THIS WORLD DIVING experience. Highly recommend both resorts in Lembeh and Manado. Great value too.

Very friendly staff, you arrive like guests, you leave as friends, professional dive center.

Best place to dive in manado!

Great experience and a good time to dive and stay.

Absolutely loved this place. Great diving, well organized, great staff and doing a lot for the local community.

Friendly staff, delicious food, good guides, perfect room, good service. Nice diving sides. Everything is good no complaining. This place is a little paradise.

One word: AMAZING!
Loved staying at Thalassa Manado and Thalassa Lembeh, both amazing and great staff. Just left but already missing it!

Thalassa is an exceptionally welcoming place from the moment of arrival until departure. Staff welcomed us warmly at the airport and on arrival at the resort the warm welcome continued. This resort has the unique ability to combine professionalism with the creation of a relaxed and relaxed environment. Rooms were comfortable and spacious with tasteful decor, the grounds were beautiful with cosy lights in the evening, food was exceptional and all staff super friendly and polite. One of the most impressive aspects of the resort was witnessing the input to local communities and the extensive support given. It is without any hesitation we fully recommend this place!

This is the best place in manado for diving. Staffs and instracteres are very kind and friendly, all meal are delicious. If you want to see tatols or micro fish, you should chose this resort.

Just about to leave for the uk
Had an awesome time superb staff accommodating to your every need
5nights In Lembeh island resort, muck diving is a must do
5 nights in manado reef and wreck diving Bangka island a must do dive site absolutely beautiful
Big love to all the staff for making our stay memorable god bless to you all
Fred & Rachel xx❤️

Just returned from a fantastic holiday in Manado and Lembeh. 2 beautifull resorts in their own way. Very friendly people around you who helps you with everything. We already came as friends but left this time as family Thanks to Simone and staff! Till next time.

3th holiday at Thalassa. As usual great dives, good food and a fine bungalow. The new Thalassa resort at Lembeh is top class. Thanks to the guides who find the most wonderfull creatures and thanks to every one else. They really do everything to make your stay unforgetable. Good reasons to go there for a 4th time. Simone keep up the very good social work! Also a good reason to choose this resort.

Comfortable, well-equipped boats. Systematic operations. A nice, airy restaurant to relax in after your dives. Excellent chef and delicious Indonesian food. Thalassa checks all the boxes for an excellent dive operator. But that’s not what makes it stand out. It is special in how it has become an integral part of the local community. The person at the heart of it all is the formidable-looking but gentle-hearted owner, Simone. Simone has a remarkable life story of how she uprooted herself from the Netherlands to create a second life in Indonesia. I barely got an iceberg-tip’s worth of anecdotes in my few days of chatting with her and it is another tale to tell. Fast forward to the resort today, it is the little things that clue you in on what a unique community Simone has helped build. We drove through the village with her daily and she could get no more than a couple hundred of metres before someone waves to her from their house or friendly-honks her from a motorbike or truck. At the resort, the staff are friendly, jovial and dedicated. She’s not just another expat running a business that employs a few locals. She helped to set up and still teaches in the village school. She finds platforms for their award-winning musical group to perform. She deals with youth problems. She trains them up in different roles to work in the dive and hospitality sector. Many of her students and staff have gone on to other parts of Indonesia as dive masters/buddies/operators.

Great location, dive boats, dive guides, accommodation is ok, meals are reasonable.

One of best dive operator in town…

Picture perfect friendly resort with great diving. This place is a diver's paradise. The comfortable well shaded boats take you to sites where there are more varieties of coral and fish that you could see in a textbook on coral reefs. The staff on the boats do everything for you and the dive guides are great. On shore there are comfortable cabins to stay in and a large classy open walled dining area to enjoy the all included delicious meals, mostly buffet style. There are only a few downsides which relate to being in the tropics — a few mosquitoes here and there and it gets pretty hot and humid if you choose not to hang around in your air conditioned room all day. But with the fantastic views from the gazebo on the pier it's all worth it. We had a fantastic time.

The Wi-Fi is slow and only works in the lobby. And you need to login again every 10 minutes using a long and hard to enter Wi-Fi password. 3G signal doesn't work which means you can't even use mobile data. Pool area is nice but there's 0 shade. Since this is resort is almost on the equator no shade is a total joke since you'll get burnt in a few minutes. No wonder no one uses the pool. Lots of road noise. After paying $160 per night for a superior room and then listening to cars and motorbikes day and night it isn't relaxing Staff are nice and this place has potential — they just need to fill in some missing dots like internet throughout the resort and shaded areas by the pool.

We had a great experience with this dive resort. Absolutely loved the friendliness and experience of the staff. The diving was very well guided and boat well captained. We will be coming back!

Timetravel to the 90ies. Old and dusty restaurant, unsafe and not really welcoming pool area. Food is poor. Bar is more or less not there. The whole resort needs a renovation. The only good thing are the nice people there.

Not lukky there. Never the same dive guide. Dive spots chansing in the morning whitout you get info. Rooms fine and big. Food fair notting special.

This place is top value and a very good dive location. The staff are great and really try and help out. I will be back for round three next year! The food was better than last time I came and a number of the rooms have been improved as well. The dive guides are great and have fantastic eyes… don't tell me you can find the stuff they find… you won't. I also like the fact that the resort invests so heavily in the local school and the environment… top marks.

Nice people, great Dive site.

Global: Best place to stay in North Sulawesi — Manado. *** Especially when diving *** Very much divespots, each of them is beautiful. This is very good DiveResort, the best i've ever bin to. It was e very pleasant stay at Thalassa. The Resort: Rooms are standard, but very good. Everything you need is available. Warm/Cold Shower, Air-conditioning, Fresh water drink. Clean and healthy rooms. Swimming pool, Wifi is available. The food taste very good, every day they have different food. Breakfast, lunch and diner. ScubaDiving: Thalassa's diving crew is professional DiveTeam that knows the best divespots arround Bunaken, Bangka and Lembeh. I had a great time in Thalassa and when I'm close to Manado, I would definitely visit Thalassa again. I had a great time and stay in Thalassa. Thank you.

Last week, 4/12 to 4/19/2014, I stayed at the Thalassa Dive Resort with a group of 15 divers from the bay area of California. We went diving almost every day and without a doubt Simone and her staff really went out of their way to address our every need; indeed, the bungalows were clean and very comfortable and there was total quiet (the type of quiet one really appreciates after a day of diving). The dining room was very nice and gave everybody the opportunity to socialize and and generally have a wonderful time discussing the day's most wonderful diving. I would not hesitate to stay at the Thalassa again in the future and not only to dive, but also to enjoy the beautiful gardens on the property and most of all to do laps in their great 100' swimming pool. Jim, Mendocino County, California.