All excellent. Beautiful boat and nice details on individual rooms, lots of shade and great A/C. The diving was excellent, excellent divesites choices and working around strong currents. Everyone of the crew members is so friendly and helpful. Excellent food. After every briefing I turn into my divemaster ( Ronald ), give him an ordered list of creatures from the briefing and he finds them all for me!!!
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Walter
All excellent. Very professionally run operation, well-maintained vessel, disciplined operation. Diving : Again, professional and disciplined. I felt comfortable and safe at all times. Also very fun, good people, they took care of everything!! Service and friendliness was outstanding!!! Massages were wonderful!! Especially impressed with variety and ability to prepare off-menu dishes on request, great service!!! Everyone worked really hard and cheerfully, we are so appreciative, thanks!!! We had our 30th wedding anniversary here and the chef baked us a cake, it was a delicious surprise and became a group celebration. We had a great last night party, made the whole boat feel like family.
Bruno
All excellent. Essentially, a floating 5-star hotel!!! It was my first time in Indonesia and I thought it was fantastic and great variety of critters and marine life, colors and corals… Crew was top notch. Although I can see Komodo is a busy area, the itinerary was perfect planned and we had a great time. Our dive guide Hery was extremely knowledgeable of the dive sites and could spot all sorts of amazing critters. Cruise director Guillermo was ever present and eager to make all the group super comfortable above and below water.
Best food I had on a boat!!! Very flexible with special requests. In my search for the best liveaboard in Indonesia I came across the Arenui a few years ago, but never got around planning a long trip. Finally I was able to find space for the Komodo trip and it paid off big time!!! This was the best diving trip I have taken so far. Despite being a solo traveller I felt very comfortable as the crew did a fantastic job all around. The diving was amazing and we were able to see everything on the wish list!!!!
Carolyn
All excellent. As always, totally excellent!!!! Very gracious and thoughtful staff, an honor to be here.
Jeff & Shelley
All excellent. Cabins are excellent and roomboys are great at taking care of you. Guillermo does an excellent job overall and especially the briefings. We thought the entire staff go above and beyond to make your trip the best ever. Fery was a great divemaster and was so informative and helpful. Mario and Kadek are the greatest!!!
We feel it’s the little things you guys do that set you apart. We appreciate the attention to detail. Guillermo was so enjoyable!!! I love to hear his stories at dinner, we will be back!!!
Seon
All excellent. The boat and facilities for diving were amazing, the beds extremely comfortable and the camera stations were awesome. The care that Guillermo takes into planning each dive day and sites did not go unnoticed, Guillermo is one of the best cruise directors I have ever met, you can see his passion for diving and for the care of his guests.
What makes any dive trip memorable is the crew. Arenui has an amazing staff and the divemasters were awesome, we dove with Hery and he was our divemaster in Misool eco resort, we were so happy to reunited with him, he is one of the bests!!!
Dana
I just said to my husband that I never been on a vacation completely, utterly stress free with no worries.
Lisa and Guillermo are the Arenui, of course with Luigi as they never miss a thing and absolutely everything runs smoothly (Siska also was wonderful an asset a great help). Not an easy accomplishment they and the staff, front stage and behind the scenes are fantastic!!! Coming back in Mar 2021.
Shelley
All excellent.
Loved the coral, but got a little bored with muck sand but this is just my preference.
FERY was the best!!! I very much appreciated the special attention he gave us!!!
Totally enjoyed kitchen staff and stewards, loved their happy attitudes and smiles. I truly enjoyed myself and for this, you should give great credit to Fery, Lisa and Guillem!!!
Kevin
This was a fantastic trip from the beginnings to end. Prior to the trip Siska was amazing in coordinating details and country logistics.
Cruise Directors did a great job with dive briefings and organizing our dive days, they were super informative, helpful and fun to have leading the trip.
The staff were top!! They really went out of their way to assure we had a great time. The entire effort allowed me to truly have a stress free and enjoyable and relaxing vacations, thanks!!!
Everybody was extremely helpful and had a sincere desire to please.
Hery was an awesome dive leader, he was great at finding and pointing out things/ sea live of interest.
Heather
Such an amazing team and crew, thanks to everyone for all the attention to detail and a well-planned trip. Cruise Directors do a tremendous job to take care of everyone. Hope to be back with you all soon!!!! And thank you for Brian’s birthday!!
First liveaboard and we had an amazing time, now I can honestly consider myself a diver.
Loved having the fresh fruit all the time, the options through the day, the celebration treats are a nice morale booster and much appreciated.