Atlantis Puerto Galera Resort
Philippines, Asia
Atlantis Dive Resorts beachfront resorts operate as an all-inclusive, dedicated dive resort.
The onsite restaurant offers an array of breakfast choices, and lunch and dinner are three-course chef-prepared meals with a menu that changes every day. Atlantis caters to all dietary needs. the food and beverage service also includes snacks in between dives and coffee and tea throughout the day.
Being a dedicated dive resort, Atlantis offers unlimited diving with up to 5 scheduled boat dives a day (four-day dives and a night dive)! All dives are guided boat dives, normally on speedboats (but sometimes on Bankah boats), about 2-10 minutes travel time from the resort, returning to the resort in between dives. All dive guides are locals, and home grown, with an excellent eye to show divers all the small wonders of the Philippines.
Operating the same as Atlantis Dumaguete with all-inclusive dive vacations, excellent food, and exceptional service, Atlantis Puerto Galera is a 40 rooms hillside resort, built in charming Flintstone-style, at the center of Sabang Beach, 1-5 minutes boat ride from over 30 dive spots!
Atlantis Puerto Galera offers divers a great opportunity to see diverse marine life, with vibrant walls, vivid reefs, and sandy areas. From wide-angle to macro, Puerto Galera is considered to be one of the most biodiverse points in the Coral Triangle (and hence the world), with schools of colorful reef fish (anthias, butterfly fish, batfish, and more!), hundreds of species of nudibranchs, eels and rays, mandarin fish, and more! Formations include swim-throughs, canyons, walls, and pinnacles. Visibility ranges from 50-160 feet.
Puerto Galera is situated on Mindoro Island and is accessible via land transfer from Manila Airport.
Hotel facilities include:
Dining:
- The Atlantis Restaurant: The hotel offers guests a unique dining experience. The restaurant uses fresh local products and flavors cooked to an international standard. There are daily changing blackboard lunch and dinner menus, theme nights with buffets, as well as lunchtime Mongolian Wok. Yummy! Alternatively, just sit down at the Atlantis Restaurant’s spacious bar for a cappuccino or a cocktail between meals.
- Seaview Bar: The beachfront cocktail bar, also known as the “50 Bar”, is where most people start their evening before heading off for dinner. Listen to great music, meet new friends, and enjoy the company of Atlantis’ dive staff while overlooking the ocean. The bar opens at 3:30 pm and closes at midnight.
Swimming Pool: Guests can refresh themselves in the private pool or relax in the sun. The pool is filled with non-chlorinated water and sheltered by trees – a perfect place where you can also enjoy a relaxing massage.
Retail Shop: Everything you need while away from home. It stocks practical items such as sunscreen, t-shirts, swimwear, sarongs, caps, and beautiful silver dive jewelry. It also offers a complete line of dive equipment, accessories, and computers as well as souvenirs, fragrant soaps, and native art. There’s also lots of fun stuff for kids as well as travel books, fish books, and postcards.
Conference Room: The cozy Conference Room comfortably seats 15 with desk space for 25, complete with climate-controlled air conditioning, whiteboard, LCD projector, TV and video, and wireless internet. This room is ideal for small business meetings.
Massage Room: Where you can unwind from a hard day’s diving and add the perfect finishing touches to your vacation. It offers manicures, pedicures, body scrubs, and much more.
Internet: For guests who need to stay in contact with home, Atlantis is equipped with high-speed broadband connection either LAN or Wi-Fi. It also provides Internet computer rental for those traveling light. Should you need a wireless connection the front desk is more than willing to assist you – wireless is available in the whole resort.
For experienced and novice divers alike, the resort boasts an SSI facility. Whether you use the dive shop as your base from which to explore thirty or more close dive sites, the place to start your adventures and become certified, your introduction to Nitrox, technical diving, rebreather adventures, or as the place to start a career in diving, the Atlantis Resort Puerto Galera has it all!
The dive center facilities and education programs include:
- 60 Individual purpose-built equipment storage cubby-holes that keep your equipment dry and organized
- High-quality Scubapro rental equipment
- Spacious comfortable boats
- Purpose-built training pool
- A dedicated camera room
- Hot water showers in the dive shop
- Multiple compressors for Air, Nitrox, and Tri-mix
- Retail shops
- Marine Life Presentations
- SSI Courses
- SSI Specialty Courses
- Nitrox Courses
- Rebreather and Tech Diving Courses
- Discover Scuba
- Discover Scuba Diving Programs
- Dive Trips and Liveaboards
When taking a break from diving, there are many activities to be enjoyed in the surrounding area. Leisure activities include Kayaking, Snorkeling, Hash Run, Jet Ski, Gym, and Golf. Tours include Paradise Reptile Zoo, Sunset Cruises, Tamaraw Falls, Mangyan Village Tukuran or Hidden Paradise, and Beach and Island Hopping.
The resort motto is “Come as a guest – leave as a friend”. Start your journey to becoming a friend by contacting us today for the latest special packages.
If you would like to learn more about Atlantis Resort’s sister properties, please click here for information about Atlantis Resort’s Dumaguete, and click here to learn more about Atlantis Resort’s Liveaboard, the Atlantis Azore’s!
Pictures courtesy of Atlantis Resorts
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