Manta Dive Gili Air Resort Reviews

Great staff and clean, spacious room with outdoor bathroom. Highly recommend if you’re staying in Gili Air, especially if you’re planning to go scuba diving as well. We will be back for our next Gili Air trip

The small garden rooms are nice, hidden among lush plants. You can snorkel and see corals after leaving the hotel, but the hotel only has two hair dryers in total. If someone borrows it and doesn't return it, you won't be able to dry your hair. 

It was a chic hotel, with spacious rooms, a balcony with comfortable sun loungers. The food was very tasty, a pool bar with smiling staff. I will definitely come back again

When I asked if the bathroom was in the room, I heard the answer was yes. Indeed, there was a toilet in the room, but it was an open toilet located outside. unique and good The location was good as it was close to the port. It's just east, so it's hard to see the sunrise, but you have to walk a bit to see the sunset. As the bathroom is outdoors, there are a lot of ants and insects, and they come into the room.

Отличный отель: номера просторные (у нас был номер с видом на сад, не бунгало), приветливый персонал, отличные пляжи рядом чтобы покупаться и загорать. Завтраки скромные (по меню), но вкусные, я бы поставил 4/5 по наполнению и вкусовым качествам. Если вы дайвер вам также сюда, здесь есть абсолютно все необходимое для погружений. В общем и целом 100% рекомендация.

We loved our stay at Manta Dive Resort! When we first arrived, the staff were so welcoming and hospitable giving us recommendations and helping us feel comfortable. We loved the hut we got to stay in. It was very clean and cool. The outside bathroom was so spacious, clean and private. Walkable to some great sunset spots and great restaurants. We were able to be dropped off by our private transfer right at Manta Dive’s beach! We loved the breakfast as well as the restaurant attached to Manta Dive. Overall, an amazing stay. There are amazing sunrise views from this hotel! So pretty and peaceful. We also loved seeing the hotel staff feeding and taking care of a couple of kitties that hang out around the hotel! We loved this place and could not get over how beautiful Gili Air and the views are!!

We stayed here with our 3 daughters to complete their open water certification. The professional organization of this crew is so amazing!! All dives where carefully planned so our dives would align with those of the girls. Great respect for the whole crew taking care of the divers with great enthusiasm with lots of laughter. I’m missing them already. We will return for sure! Thumbs up! Also the resort itself had all comfort we needed. The rooms are very clean and were cleaned every day. There is great laundry service next door which is very convenient. The resort also comprises a Mexican restaurant with gemerkt food and cocktails.

This is a great resort if you are into diving. The rates are great and the dive crew first rate. This is my second visit and it did not disappoint. Rooms are neat and clean with a great restaurant attached for a relaxed breakfast prior to diving. Well done Manta Dive

We had a short but great stay at Manta Dive Resort. Room was comfortable, good working air con and clean. Real fast was included and delicious with several options to choose from which is nice for multi day stay. We did one day of diving and the team was wonderful, rental equipment worked well, dive guides and boat staff were wonderful. The manager Rob was very helpful as well. Highly recommend as a place to base out of in the Gilis to explore and do some diving!

This was our second visit to Manta Dive at Gili Air, and we are already booked to go again in six months' time. We stayed at their garden bungalow accommodation and dived every day with them. We're both dive instructors with a lot of diving experience, but are also both past retirement age and appreciated the extra care the boat staff and our dive guide Mul took with us. The air-conditioned accommodation is excellent, with bottles of drinking water in the room, to supplement the drinking water that is freely available in the outdoor reception area. The bed is comfortable, though for our liking the pillows are a little too thick and huge. There is a fridge and a safe and a semi-outdoors bathroom, with plentiful hot water and a laundry service is available. Each bungalow has a private outdoor verandah with a drying rack and seating. Bring mosquito spray for the evenings, as there is a plug-in insect repellant, but they are persistent! For early risers, the 6.30am sunrises over Lombok island are spectacular. We observed many try dives and Open Water and Advanced dive courses being taught by the patient, knowledgeable and relaxed but safety-conscious Manta Dive instructors. Rafi, Ayu and Mariana are only mentioned by name because we did not get the names of a couple of others, who were also exhibiting excellent practice. We don't think we have ever seen such careful attention paid to beginner divers in our 25 years+ diving. Nothing was too much trouble, and we are sure this is why divers of all experience come back time and again to Manta Dive. Last time we visited, we dived with an excellent guide named Opik. Unfortunately he was off sick this time, but our young guide Mul was an equally perceptive, attentive and welcome replacement. He worked for two weeks to ensure that every dive was an unforgettable experience. We saw white-tip sharks, turtles, blubberlip snappers, but even more amazing, considering one of us has fairly poor eyesight, were the seahorses, weedy scorpion fish, leaf fish and nudibranchs that he took infinite care and time to show us. Divers are placed in an experience-appropriate small group with a guide/instructor. Breakfast is included in the accommodation price, with muesli, fruit, yogurt, juice and coffee, or cooked alternatives. A simple but varied lunch is also available after the two dives in the morning. We are pushed to think of any negatives, except maybe, as everywhere on Gili Air, you could find a lot of smokers in the outdoor areas of the dive centre - you might want to position yourselves upwind!

Everyone is super friendly, the rooms are basic, but very clean and tidy, however your not going to spend too much time in the room anyway. The diving is excellent. My partner and i took the beginners dive. Our instructor was Zac, he's a top bloke and helped my pattern immensely as she was really struggling at first. She is now completely hooked on diving and we are already looking at our next trip and will be back to dive with the excellent team at Gili Air Manta dive. Thank you all so much!

We stayed for 10 nights and went diving with them for 3 weeks. Chose before we arrived to try a second accomodation with a private pool but could have happily stayed here for the full 3 weeks. We stayed in a deluxe bungalow, room is a nice size, bed is comfy pillows are great. Aircon works well, bathroom is beautiful with roof over most but shower area open. There are 2 small dipping pools with 10 loungers between them, which never seemed to be crowded. Good location for the main street from the port which has great restaurants and a bit of shopping on offer. Far enough away from the Mosque for the morning prayers not to be intrusive. Rob and the crew at the dive centre are amazing. Took the time to make sure we had everything we needed, made sure we got to go to all the dive sights over the course of our stay. Had advice for places to eat etc. Manta Dive offer a 2 tank boat in the morning and a single dive boat in the afternoon. On the boat they have pure oxygen, first aid, water, spare equipment and snacks, tea coffee for between dives. Our guide, Opik was so experienced he knew all the dive sights really well and would always make sure we went in away from other groups so we didn’t need to worry about being surrounded by other divers. They also do dive courses here and there is a third pool at the back of the complex especially for the courses. Recommend for both accommodation and diving.

It’s no good exaggeration to say this is one of the best places we’ve ever stayed anywhere in the world, especially at this price point. The huts are so comfortable and clean, outdoor bathrooms likewise. Mini-fridge, good air con, huge bed. The pool area is small but lovely. The Dive Centre here is the heart of everything so there are always people around to give you advice etc. The staff are wonderful. Breakfasts gorgeous and fresh. The snorkelling area outside hotel is abundant; you’ll almost definitely be able to swim with turtles 💜 We so desperately don’t want to leave…

There is no better place for diving in Indonesia in my opinion. I was three times in Raja Ampat and it is perhaps a little better diving, but getting there is a problem, whereas Gilli Air is within a boat-ride from a major international airport! And once your get there you find a friendly, competent and widely popular Rob who runs a tight boat and looks after every little detail, be it connecting you to fruit seller or making sure that you meet the frogfish he had in mind! My bathroom was an absolute dream, open air, clean, always hot water... Can't wait to get back