Stayed 2 nights. The accommodation is great, it’s quite simple but also clean and has everything you would need. After sunset you can sit on the end of the pier and watch the plankton, stars and fire flies, due to the resort being far from the road, it is completely silent and feels like you are on a deserted island. It is really really amazing. The kitchen could be better but that would be my only (light) criticism. The dive side however is a joke. No one asked to see our licenses. No one asked when we last dived. The dive leader, came out, said something about being tired and then spent more time and energy telling us about how great her boyfriend is and how he had just left etc etc. Not asking the basics gave me a bad impression but we went ahead anyway. The dive gear and management of is really poor. BCD they gave me had tangled straps and had weights in each pocket that I didn’t spot until after 2nd dive wondering why I was so heavy. The only bootys they could give me had a massive hole in one toe. One of the fins that they gave my wife was broken, The boat crew mixed up my wife’s weight belt between first and second dive and she struggled during the second dive. The guide generally paid no attention. Again no one knew when we last dived and we went to 27M max depth on first dive. even when I signalled to him that she was not ok on second dive, he just carried on. Thankfully we have experience between us to manage these things but for a diver with less experience, this whole situation would be be dangerous. We could never find anyone to log our dives, they promised emails which we never received. All of this together signs of poor/disinterested/lazy management everywhere that extend through the whole diving environment. Given the brand positioning of this resort, we were really disappointed. We checked out and instead went to Amun Ini up the road. Better dive crew, smaller dive groups, better equipment maintenance and better site selection. We spoke to a group who had been diving for a few days with Magic and they saw nothing but nudis. Our first dive with Amun Ini - Emporer Fish, larger schools, we saw bigger fish on every dive. Guide was better in every way. It costs more but you get what you pay for. I really hate to be so hard when the accommodation people are so nice. If you are not diving, stay here you will love it. Otherwise I would look elsewhere.
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