Lembeh Resort is a boutique-style resort, situated on Lembeh Island and perched above the beautiful Lembeh Strait of northeast Sulawesi. The resort is surrounded by lush tropical gardens and blends perfectly into the landscape. With a 3:1 staff ratio Lembeh Resort is committed to offering you a high level of service. The resort’s location in the middle of the Lembeh Strait means 35 dive sites are accessible by boat in 15 minutes or less. When you’re not diving you can cool off in the resort’s freshwater swimming pool or relax on the comfortable sunbeds in the shade of an umbrella. The pool and sunbeds are just meters from the sea and offer stunning views of the surrounding volcanoes and spectacular sunsets across the Lembeh Strait.
Cliffside Villa
Lembeh Resort’s Cliffside Villa is a private sanctuary of stunning views which sets the benchmark for luxury accommodations in North Sulawesi. This beautiful villa is perched on a green hillside, surrounded by colorful floral gardens. All stays in the Cliffside Villa are complimented with a private butler service. You’ll receive a cell phone which can be used for direct service and your needs will not only met, but exceeded. So go ahead and jump in the pool, enjoy a romantic candlelight dinner or simply relax and indulge.
Premium Luxury Cottages
These beautiful cottages provide a slice of tropical living with their semi open-air bathrooms and modern amenities. The cottages are designed to ensure that you experience Lembeh with a touch of luxury. All cottages offer stunning sea views and offer spacious living with large double beds, sofas and both indoor and outdoor seating. Enjoy the dramatic sunsets over the Strait from your verandah after a day of diving. These are the perfect accommodation option for those who want to unwind and kick back with all of the comforts of home – and that little bit more.
Hillside Luxury Cottages
These beautiful cottages are spaced well apart and staggered along the hillside offering incredible views over the Lembeh Strait from spacious private verandahs. After a day of diving relax with a sundowner and watch the sunset over the ocean or unwind indoors on a comfortable sofa. Hillside Luxury Cottages feature generously sized semi open-air bathrooms, ample storage space, and tasteful decor. Both twin and double configurations are available.
Garden View Rooms
Garden View Rooms are beautifully nestled in lush tropical gardens. Wander along well groomed walkways or just sit back and relax on the verandah while enjoying the tropical sounds, local fauna and flora that the Garden View Rooms offer. These rooms are perfect for those who would prefer to have everything on hand. The restaurant, boats, dive centre, camera room, pool and lobby are all located within close proximity.
After an amazing day of diving, unwind by treating yourself to a relaxing massage at Lembeh Resort’s spa. Select from a range of treatments from a 30-minute reflexology session to 2.5 hours of pampering.
Lembeh Resort Restaurant & Bar
Lembeh Resort’s newly remodelled restaurant & bar is centrally located on the upper level of the main building with beautiful views of the pool and Lembeh Strait. Breakfast is usually served buffet style with a wide variety of fresh tropical fruits & juices, bread, cereals & yogurts, oven-fresh pastries & homemade rolls, western and Indonesian dishes and cooked to ordered omelette bar. Lunch is usually a buffet as well, with an assortment of salads, a soup, western and Indonesian dishes and homemade desserts. Dinner is served a-la-carte, when the chefs prepare a wide selection of international & Indonesian cuisine catering to all tastes. For drinks you can enjoy a bottle of wine from their temperature controlled wine room, sip a refreshing cocktail or simply have a cold local Bintang beer while sitting at the bar. Morning & afternoon snacks are also served, and tea & coffee are available throughout the day in the dining area.
Indonesian BBQ nights
Lembeh Resort also features Indonesian BBQ nights where you can enjoy a delicious spread of BBQ meat, seafood satays and Indonesian dishes, while being entertained with song and dance by the local Sunday school choir.
Poolside Bar
The newly built poolside bar offers freshly made snacks between dives, ice-cold beverages and coffee & tea. If you are so inclined order an espresso, café latte or a homemade ice cream after lunch. Beautiful sunsets and ice-cold Bintang beer or tropical frozen cocktails are a superb way to end your dive day.
At Lembeh Resort each diver has their own spacious, personal locker area with drying pegs for boots and hangers for suits and BCs. There are long benches for kitting-up and a briefing area with big whiteboards to help you plan your diving program and keep an eye on the day’s events. A full range of dive equipment is available for rent, including special U/V lights for viewing luminescent critters and coral. The resort has a state-of-the-art membrane Nitrox compressor, multiple air compressors, dive boats that are custom-built with divers comfort and convenience in mind and a spacious camera room that’s just steps away from the dive boats. In the camera room private workstations with power plugs (both 110V and 220V) are available for everyone and just outside there are rinse tanks and air guns.
Diving with Lembeh Resort
Lembeh Resort offers the following dives (subject to change)
-Guided house reef dives any time early morning until late night
-Guided boat dives at 08:00 / 10:45 / 14:30*
-Guided Mandarin Fish boat dive at 16:45
-Guided night dive at 18:30
-Guided late night dive (after 20:00)
-Self guided house reef dives are available any time
*Morning options: dive and return at 08:00 and 10:45 or double dive depart at 8:00 and return at 12:15
Diving the Lembeh Strait
For macro photography it is hard to compete with Lembeh in North-East Sulawesi. Open up any coffee table book featuring macro critters and you can be sure Lembeh’s name will appear again and again. The list of critters that can be encountered at Lembeh is endless. During our last visit to Lembeh the diving blew us away – it was even better than our first visit and the Blue Ring’s we had come to see were there in abundance. It definitely pays to do your research if you want to photograph a particular critter! Our dive sites included famous names like Nudi Retreat, Hairball and Nudi Falls and the array of critters we encountered was spectacular – Hairy Frogfish, Juvenile Warty Frogfish, Robust Ghost Pipefish, Hairy Octopus, Flamboyant Cuttlefish, Wunderpus, Mimic Octopus, Hairy Shrimp, Lembeh Sea Dragon, and Pontohi Pygmy Seahorse all made their way in front of our camera! But in places like Lembeh it is not just about finding and photographing these critters, if you stick around you can easily watch each of their unique behaviours – Pygmy Cuttlefish feeding, Lizardfish hunting their prey, Goby and Shrimp living together and our highlight – two Blue Ring Octopus feeding and mating!
