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When I go to Indonesia I fly into Jakarta and stay at FM 7 hotel a couple nights before heading out to Sorong. I have always flown one of the Lion air group airlines and have always had trouble. I'm going to fly Garuda Indonesia next time in September. Most live a boards will require you be out...

Must of the questions have been answered but, I will give my 2 cents on tipping. My wife and I did this trip in Nov 2020. I tip the crew on the Rea Sea Aggressor when I settle my bill on the boat using my credit card. Now tipping off the boat is another story as it is nuts. Everyone will want...

We went a few years age and we wore snorkel vests and deflated them.

I had the Red Sea scheduled for March 2020. Everything got cancelled. I've now rescheduled everything for the end of October. Fingers crossed.

Bill, Travel in Indonesia is a little different. I went from Jakarta to Sorong in January 2019 and Jakarta to Maumere and Saumlaki back to Jarkarta in March 2019 and I can only speak from experience. I had to pay for luggage in Indonesia only once. There is no rhyme or reason to it, you never...

I agree but, these flights were cancelled 6 week before my trip (this from Batik Air representative) and I received no notification from NUSTRIP that the flights were cancelled.

My advice would be to check on your flight with the airline before you depart. I didn't and paid the price. At least I got stranded in bigger places and not in a village with only one or two flights a day.

Be very careful with NUSATRIP. I booked Indonesian domestic flights with NUSATRIP for a trip in February 2019 an two of the flight were cancelled weeks before I arrived in Indonesia and was never notified. When I got to the airport in Jakarta I was told my flight was cancelled and they rebooked...

I just got back from that region March 27. The airline I had trouble with was Batik Air. They cancelled two of my flights and didn't tell me until I got to the airport. I did fly into MOF on Wings air from Makassar to MOF. When I checked in at Jakarta, I was told my checked bag could be 20Kg...

I just got back from Raja Ampat and I will share what we did. We arrived in Jakarta about 1:30 PM and stayed over night at FM7 hotel about 10 min from the airport. They were great about picking us up and giving us a ride back to the airport. The hotel was clean safe and the food was great. We...

One of the things I would look at is the size of the boats the operator is using. The bigger boats will take longer to get to the reefs and will usually dive the northern parts of the reef. If you can get on the smaller boats there will usually be fewer people and the boats are much faster...

Will be in Cozumel 20 Aug. Any news on hurricane damage?

The thing you need to know about Cozumel is that most of the hotels and dive operations are on the north west side on the island and that the dive sites on on the southwest side. If your boat picks you up at 0800 and it takes you and hour to get to the dive sites, then a 45 min dive, 1 hour...

My son and I are going 20 - 27 Aug. and will be staying at Hotel Cozumel. This will be my sixth time staying at Hotel Cozumel, stayed at Cozumel Palace last November. Hotel Cozumel is nice, rooms are clean and the staff is great. The food is good but, not great and after a week it does get old...

I've have a few airlines hold a flight for me but, it does not happen very often>

I will never understand airfares...It's unbelievable. Last November (2015) I flow from PHX to CZM for $290 RT. In February (2016) I found an airfare from PHX to CZM for $325. I blinked and it was gone. I watch the airfares to CZM and they had been running about $825 RT PHX to CZM. Two weeks ago...