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Hi, I took a blueO2 boat - I can't remember which - about 5 years ago. They price about $120 per night if I recall. Not the most expensive. I was happy. To the specific issue of fire. I can't give any advice. It's the worst fear I have - fire on a liveaboard. Unfortunately we place a lot...

Yes.. around day full dive day 3 (day 1 was only a day check and night check dive, day 2 was a full day of diving) It went ok in the moment. Without getting into every sentence I felt heard and understood. The impact as it turns out was really only on the briefing. He would discuss the dive...

Yes. That sounds like a pretty similar itinerary. We also did the blacktip beach. I would say within our boat the current you experienced also had to do with who took you out. The elder gent who my wife finished her week with seemed quite skilled at turning and avoiding fighting it...

item #1 - My wife is awesome...I just married well. However thank you. item #2 - Honestly if someone's been diving an area long enough it probably doesn't matter where they were born. This person had a lot of dive experience, just very little on these sites. He was a great cruise director...

See pics attached. The dive site list is almost complete. There was a dive the 7th day before we headed back to sorong. The map is basically accurate. The numbers relate to dive numbers. We went "off the map" to the north crossing back and forth over the equator, I think it was day 3.

DIVING Ok, this is a scuba forum, well we are finally down to the diving. We scheduled a liveaboard that was 7 nights - and did a Raja Ampat North Itinerary. I'm not going to mention the boat because I have some criticisms and I'm not sure if I'm being fair...I'm not ready to publicly trash...

I wanted to post this here, in case someone looking into Raja Ampat could find it helpful. First - I'm going to have a lot of opinions below, so it's nice to have some frame of reference to my point of view: My wife and I have been diving since 2006. We have 400-500 dives logged. Most of our...

I did a trip 5 years ago. 7 days BDE out of hurghada with a BlueO2 boat. It was the last week of may/first week of June. Mantas: no We saw: 1 thresher Countless oceanic white tips Hammerheads on 3 days of the trip Their may have been a 4th species but if so I can't recall it. We saw the...

Just returned from LOB in RA a few days ago. We were there for new moon. During boarding briefing the rules on gloves was mentioned but on this particular LOB it was not policed at all. During virtually all day dives current was a issue covered on the briefing. On about half the dives some...

I ended up loading the bluebird app. It seems most locals prefer grab app. My bluebird app worked fine and gave me an option for electronic app payment if I was hailing a cab as well as if I ordered a cab on the app. Cost for bluebird is reasonable compared to what I'm accustomed to paying...

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My apologies to both of you. Yes - at times I do have trouble with impulse control. Indeed I could have googled it - for that matter I could have asked for a soliloquy about tipping from ChatGPT. I was hoping to have a conversation about what personal experiences in Indonesia are, and...

Ok. For f*** sake. Am I allowed to close a thread? My God the internet is filled with a bunch of f***ing keyboard knuckleheads. All I wanted to know was the tipping customs in indonesia. Several people stepped forward with their experiences (thank you!). Almost instantly the parade of...

Yeah, I visited the site but in other places I've noted local airport staff seem to have variance with what's documented on the site. Sometimes for the better sometimes the worse. Example: they say that domestic airport counter checking at jakarta isn't avail >120minutes preflight. But you...

I have 2 layovers in Jakarta. On the way down (to sorong) and back. On the way down: does anyone know many hours before a flight Garuda will let you check bags? Can I check them with Garuda 3 hours before the flight? 6 hours? Between jakarta and sorong I have a gap in time I don't need to...

This is reminiscent sounding of India big city traffic. The wife is in for a real treat. It took me a month in India to get use to it. A buddy of mine took me out to dinner on the back of his motorcycle I remember thinking "well, the company pays my medical bills on a work trip".

There are a lot of sites out there that mention the visa and some of them may be 3rd parties that then do it for you...this is pretty common for other countries. Visa app services that take care of everything for you. This site claims to be the official one, and is what I used. I am curious...

I would politely suggest that wrapping a helpful response in criticism of what you assume is someone's culture or beliefs undercuts the helpful message by putting the recipient on the defensive. In the America's (North South Central and Caribbean) the hospitality industry is largely tipped...

Hello - First time visitor to Indonesia next month. Have some questions about tipping. First: outside of diving, who do you tip, and how much is customary. I've travelled to developing countries before and generally have likely grossly overtipped, which is usually less problematic than...

There was one point I wanted to call out for anyone using this for travel guidance...If you get the Visa on arrival online/electronically E-VOA) the Indonesia online portal where you apply for it says it has a 90 day validity, for a 30 day entry. Meaning you have up to 90 days after getting it...