In the province of Maluku, Indonesia, Spice Island Divers nestles comfortably on the west shoreline of the main seagoing thoroughfare to Ambon city. The topography to the west of the island reaches depths beyond 2,500 meters and it is not uncommon to be eating breakfast at the resort and see Whales passing by… Overview Continued
The majority of nationalities can receive a 30-day visa upon arrival. Please check with the Indonesian embassy within your home country. The closest airport is 15 minutes away, Ambon, Indonesia. Transfer from the airport to the resort can be arranged when booking.
“Having completed 26 days diving between Maumere, Flores and Sorong, Raja Ampat I cannot emphasise highly enough how much I enjoyed my 3 days diving with SPice Island Divers. Simply the best part of my whole trip.”
Featuring both Seafront villas and Garden rooms, Spice Island Divers have plenty of accommodation to suit your budget. The rooms are spacious, offer very comfortable beds, air-conditioned and can accommodate single, double or twin occupancy. The grounds of the resort are extremely comfortable, quiet and very relaxing.
The resort also features an open-sided restaurant that serves a variety of local Indonesian dishes to tantalise your tastebuds. Following your evening meal, you can relax at the bar and/or the lounge area or one of the beachfront loungers watching the sunset.
Diving along the shores of Ambon is known for its muck diving. Each dive site blends into the next so on those rare occasions when currents become strong you can simply drift and still sea aquatic life. The macro life in Ambon is simply mind-blowing. Every dive site is crawling with critters and the exceptional dive guides at Spice Island Divers know where and when to find specific animals.
The only way to describe the dive operations at Spice Island Divers is that they are jaw-droppingly precise, pristine and clinically detailed. The equipment area, tank and compressor rooms are cleaner than a surgeons operating table. Airlines over camera baths is a great touch and lead into the air-conditioned camera room with individual stations for charging, cleaning and storage.
The ratio of dive staff to guests is staggering so do not be surprised if you have not 1 but 2 dive guides searching for critters during your dives. The largest dive group we witnessed during our stay was 3:2, that’s 3 guides to 2 guests! Expect to see many nudibranchs, pipefish, ghost pipefish, frogfish (including the psychedelic Ambon Frogfish), blennies, Skeleton shrimp, Harlequin shrimp and much much more.
Ambon is an amazing dive location and even if you are not a critter hunter we are sure you will be amazed by the aquatic life beneath the shoreline surface.
