Shangri La Rasa Ria or Nexus Resort Karambunai? Whr to dive?

Planning on going to KK last minute. Heard Sipadan not good for novice divers. Have 3 kids-11,12,14yr old. Which resort do you recommend? Dive Operator? Dive location? Any help appreciated.

Shangri La Rasa Ria or Nexus Resort Karambunai? Whr to dive?

Hi,

Both Rasa Ria and Nexus hotels are based approx 30-45 mins out of Kota Kinabalu town. There is no real diving / snorkling to do at these sites.

Diving near the Kota Kinabau town area is often done around the Tunkul Addul Rahman Marine Park (TARP). Snorkling and Diving is done just off the islands about 10mins boat ride off the coast of KK town centre.

The resort hotels in town itself are either the Shangri-La Tanjung Aru or the Sutera Harbour.

Was diving last weekend around TARP in the warm waters and saw loads of fish and even a turtle.

I personally use %26#39;BorneoDream%26#39; (google it) for my diving/snorklng trips in the KK (I%26#39;m an expat living in KK).

So you can compare, other dive operators in the KK town area tend to have their offices on the ground floor in Wisma Sabah building in KK town centre.

Hope this helps

Paul

Shangri La Rasa Ria or Nexus Resort Karambunai? Whr to dive?

Thanks Paul. I will email Borneo Dream Divers. We would love to see a turtle while diving!! Didn%26#39;t see one in Phuket. We%26#39;re expats in Shanghai. Looking forward to our KK trip!

Our children - aged 16 and 17 years dived with www.downbelow.co.uk in August this year. They had a wonderful time and we recommend this dive school highly. We stayed at the Rasa Ria and, to be honest, it was a chore going into KK every day for the diving. Would suggest you stay in KK. The diving takes place at TARP and the location used by www.divebelow.co.uk is like a paradise island. Hope you all enjoy it!

Just replying to the person who used Dive Downbelow, I have just completed a Divemaster internship and i can highly recommend them!! They were very proffesional with me and the facilities amoungst other things were awesome, they have a great base station on the island within the park and it just set them apart from the rest.

All the staff were great and are all very friendly and i found there dive shop in town very usefull but spend a lot of money!

The link above is wrong thw correct one is:

http://www.divedownbelow.com/

We just came back from 2 weeks in KK, 1 week at Tanjung Aru and 1 week at Rasa Ria. Excellent time all-round but the diving was superb. We went with www.divedownbelow.com who were just brilliant. Richard and Jo had a establsihed firm in the UK and now have a great team in KK and have just achieved 5* PADI Instructor training status, which is the real quality stamp.

they%26#39;ll sort out some great dives and days out for you and if you have time for a day trip, ask them to take you to TIGA.

You%26#39;ll feel safe with these guys and they can accomodate your needs, whatever they are. No added extras either!

Hi Hi,

I never stay in Shangri-la Rasia Ria before, so I have no idea if they can arrange diving trip for you. But in Nexus they can arrange diving trip and that will be in tungku Abdul Rahman Park Islands which take about 20 minutes from KK jetty.

OR you may try have a look at Lankayan Island. Good for snorkeling and also diving, even suitable for family with children. The Island not that crowded, max cap only 60 guests. Big chance to see turtle nesting and hatchling. You can google and find out more about Lankayan from the internet.

Voa

The name of the company is Downbelow and its email address is following: dive@divedownbelow.com

Quite obviously rubbish !

As the owner of the company i can assure all that this is not true we have had no snorkel clients fitting the description and no complaints from any guests at all !

If you had any genuine problem why was it not voiced at the time ? and anyone who has visited our centre would know you are not truthful as your story just does not add up !

We put our heart and soul into giving guests the best service and will continue to do so with safety being the number one priority.

Please read the genuine feed back and you will find all very happy clients.

Very sad that this is how low people will go.