Getting to and from Bunaken & Lembeh

Whether you dive Manado and Bunaken or dive Lembeh, you will have to fly into the Manado International Airport. There are regular international flights from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, as well frequent domestic flights from most major cities in Indonesia.

Singpore to Manado

Direct flights every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday with Silk Air (subsidiary of Singapore Airlines), takes approximately 3.5 hours. For prices, check out the Silk Air web site. This can be the most expensive option but is also the easiest.

Tip: Check with your travel agent, if you fly with Singapore Airlines to Singapore, sometimes they will add on the Silk Air flight for very little extra.

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Check out Lion Air website

Booking Internal Flights Its cheaper to book internal flights from inside Indonesia. Lion Air issue eTckets, this means that we can book the flights for you and send you the tickets via email. Check out booking flights for more information.

From Kuala Lumpur with Air Asia

Perhaps the cheapest route to Manado is via Air Asia, one of Asia's largest budget airlines. The direct flight between KL and Manado was cancelled in Feb 2010, but its still possible to get AA flights to cities in Indonesia followed by internal flights to Manado (MDO) with Lion Air with very little transit time as follows:

via Jakarta:
DEP KL 0700, ARR JKT 0805 (AA)
DEP JKT 1330, ARR MDO 1740 (LionAir)

DEP KL 0950, ARR JKT 1050 (AA)
DEP JKT 1330 ARR MDO 1740 (LionAir)

DEP KL 1315, ARR JKT 1415 (AA)
DEP JKT 1830, ARR MDO 2215 (LionAir)

via Denpasar (Bali):
DEP KL 0925, ARR DPS 1230 (AA)
DEP DPS 1830, ARR MDO 2215 (LionAir)

DEP KL 1055, ARR DPS 1355 (AA)
DEP DPS 1830, ARR MDO 2215 (LionAir)

via Ujang Pandang (city in South of Sulawesi):
DEP KL 1340, ARR UPG 1705 (AA)
DEP UPG 2030, ARR MDO 2215 (LionAir)

Lion Air is the largest budget airline in Indonesia, and typical prices would be JKT-MDO US$65-100, DPS-MDO US$80-100, UPG-MDO US$40-60. We can buy the Lion Air flights to Manado for you and get the cheaper internal prices, the tickets issued will be eTickets that we can email to you.

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Already in Indonesia? - Domestic flights to Manado

There are regular flights from Jakarta & Bali, up to 3 or 4 times per day. If you need help booking internal flights, we can book these for you, and eTckets are issiued that we can email to you. Check out our web site booking flights for more information.

Tip: There are regular flights from most European cities to Jakarta & Bali. Your travel agent can advise on best options, but cheap flights are with middle east airlines like Emirates, Gulf Air and Qatar Air. The only problem is that they go via a city in middle east like Bahrain and Dubai, and there is often long wait for flight to Indo.

Night Flights

Its possible to get some cheaper night flights to Manado that are scheduled to arrive at about 10pm, for example with Lion Air. If you take one of these flights then we cannot promise that we can transfer you to the resort that night. There are two reasons for this:

• in our experience these flights are always delayed until about 1-2am. There is never any information from the aiport/airline, we just have to sit and wait for the plane to eventually arrive, and its just too difficult to expect boats and resort staff to wait for the transfer/check-in as well.

• its dangerous to drive the boat at night, especially for the 45-60min transfer to Bunaken, as there are many logs in the water that can be hidden in the dark.

We will try and transfer you that night, but it may be that you have to stay a night in Manado and then transfer to the resort early the next morning. If this is the case, the person meeting you at the airport will have all the details of the hotel and the transfers.