Darlene worked on a liveaboard before and she would have loved to work with a crew of this calibre. Boat: georgeous boat, awesome room, exceeded expectations. By far this is the best boat we have ever been on. Diving: best diving I have seen in years. Crew: directors Lisa and G were very friendly and informative. Very well organized, always felt like we were in the best hands. Stewards Anto and Kadek were very attentive. Loved Anto’s sense of humor. Divemasters and tender drivers were friendly and fun. They are clearly having a good time and it’s infectious. Food: Excellent. great food in massive quantities.
Archives: Testimonials
Katie & James
A big shout out to G and Lisa for being amazing cruise directors. Crew: BEST CREW!!! Idy is the greatest divemaster we had the pleasure to dive with. He is attentive, safety orientated and knowledgeable. Anto and Kadek made our dining experience a total joy. Food: Excellent, very yummy! The kitchen staff was wonderful even about little things like no garlic in my vegetables 😉
Ethan
This was a great trip and I am glad I was able to make it! Boat: the boat was fantastic. Diving: excellent. Crew: Couldn’t ask for better! Food: Excellent.
Diane
Loved the goodie bags passed out. Very classy – and what a wonderful memory to take home (the video). I can’t wait to return!! would highly recommend this “gem” of a boat to ALL! Diving: been all over the world and the diving in Raja Ampat is way up on the top of my list! Crew: they are the best of the best. Keep every one of them! Food: five star!
Jerry
Boat: best and most beautiful boat in the world! My 10th liveaboard and the Arenui is head and shoulders above the rest! Diving: best diving I’ve ever done and I’ve been diving for 50 years. Got to snorkel and play with two mantas on the surface. Biodiversity and health of the reefs the greatest!! Crew: could not be more helpful, kind, courteous, solicitous and attentive!! Every one. Food: my belly had gotten larger.
Noel
This was my third time on the Arenui. It is by far one of the best liveaboard experiences in the best part of the diving world – Indonesia. I’ve been to Bali/Komodo twice and thought diving couldn’t be better until I dived Raja Ampat! Diving: the best I’ve seen!! Crew: crew couldn’t do enough for us! They were fantastic!
Sue
Diving: briefings excellent! Crew: stewards excellent!
Michelle & Mike
While everything on the boat and everyone make for the prefect trip, I have to say Debbie and Jerry bring an amazing energy to the picture! It is infectious and spreads outward to the crew and guests. It was all extraordinary. Very grateful. Diving: I love diving again! Thank you! Crew: very special crew. Unbelievable service and FUN! Food: extraordinary.
Janet & Ramsay
Ramsay and I enjoyed our first Arenui experience in June 2013 so much, we came back! We were not disappointed! The Cruise Directors – Debbie & Jerry – are the best we’ve ever had. Professional, fun and totally engaging. If we come back I would hope to have them as directors. Our last dive – Wednesday March 8 – Pulau Wai. We were waiting for mantas – I turned around to look behind us, in case they were coming from that direction and Ronald our divemaster, had taken off his fins – put them on his hands and was pretending to swim like a manta – he actually DID look like one and made us all laugh under water! What a great guy!! Boat: our second time on the Arenui!! Hopefully our last. As before – the boat was the epitome of luxury liveaboard travels. Clean, roomy, safe and fun. Diving: wonderful diving!! Debbie & Jerry did a great job of getting us to our dive sites, giving great briefings – and making our dive experience memorable and one we would like to do again. Crew: our divemaster – Ronald was wonderful – attentive, always aware of where we were, what was going on around us and looking out for our safety and comfort as well as making the dive experience as exciting and interesting as possible. We will never forget – “masks on!” “position, position!!” “1 – 2 – 3 – go!”. Great fun! Food: excellent and plentiful food.
Cynthia
A great boat and crew. Fabulous diving. Only good things to say. Absolutely NO negatives. Great dive directors/crew. Debbie is the BEST 🙂 Boat: A++ for everything.