Chuuk diving

[davinajmyers]

I'd love any recommendations/info on best dive sites and operators on Chuuk, diving from land, next month / December. Thanks in advance!

 

[Tracy]

I just got back from spending a couple of weeks at Blue Lagoon. The diving and guides were amazing. The hotel was good enough. They don't have hot water, but the water is warm since it is 85 degrees everyday.
Most of my group had functional AC in their rooms.
I would go back, it was a great trip.

 

[coldwaterglutton]

I just got back from spending a couple of weeks at Blue Lagoon. The diving and guides were amazing. The hotel was good enough. They don't have hot water, but the water is warm since it is 85 degrees everyday.
Most of my group had functional AC in their rooms.
I would go back, it was a great trip.

Which operator did you dive with? Or is the diving through the Blue Lagoon?

 

[noads99]

I just got back from spending a couple of weeks at Blue Lagoon. The diving and guides were amazing. The hotel was good enough. They don't have hot water, but the water is warm since it is 85 degrees everyday.
Most of my group had functional AC in their rooms.
I would go back, it was a great trip.

Yes, the BL Hotel certainly isn't the best but to be fair everything worked in 2023 including a little hot water. Rooms were clean and the beds were OK but the restaurant was the biggest letdown. Wifi at reception was just about OK for emails.

 

[broncobowsher]

Blue lagoon has there own fleet of boats and guides.
Map on the wall with a description of each of the wrecks.
You pick what you want to go see. Both in terms of the wrecks and what you skill level is.

If you take on of the live aboards, you dive what the boat takes you to. Weather that is what you want to dive or not.

 

[Tracy]

Which operator did you dive with? Or is the diving through the Blue Lagoon?

We were on the Blue Lagoon boats.

 

[Tracy]

Yes, the BL Hotel certainly isn't the best but to be fair everything worked in 2023 including a little hot water. Rooms were clean and the beds were OK but the restaurant was the biggest letdown. Wifi at reception was just about OK for emails.

The beds were the hardest beds I have ever slept on. That said, my back felt absolutely amazing after two weeks on them. Maybe I should get a firmer mattress for home.
I was very pleased with the restaurant. The food varied from edible to good and they had an impressive selection of menu items.
The wifi at the lobby was acceptable at night/early morning, but nearly non existent at high traffic hours. There was also wifi on our balconies but none in the rooms.

 

[broncobowsher]

Was in Blue Lagoon last year. Wifi was added to the rooms.
Restraunt has a very large menu. None of the food was bad, but sometimes a little different than you would normally expect. Was there just before the supply ship arrived and we would have fun with what are they out of today? Even with that, I am a picky eater and never had any issues with meals.

If you are going here for a dive vacation, would you rather have the good dives and fair food, or fair dives and good food? It's a 3rd world country. Not going to find a pampered 5-star resort.

 

[runsongas]

I honestly don't get why people go all the way to truk don't just spend a little more for the master or odyssey. the blue lagoon is bottom 3 of all places i've ever stayed, up there with a hostel that doubled as a homeless shelter in the UK during the pandemic and the airbnb in romania that looked nothing like the pictures where I thought I would be kidnapped and have my kidneys stolen. i've stayed in 10 dollar hostels in southeast asia that were in better shape.

 

[clownfishsydney]

I have been to Chuuk Lagoon six times over the past 33 years. I have come to the conclusion that land based is best. For the same amount of $, you can stay longer, dive only twice a day but do longer dives and more of the deeper wrecks.

I think the only land based operator to use is Blue Lagoon. Nothing fancy, some might think the accommodation is not up to their standard, but it is a third world country (well part of a country) and has gone downhill since I first went there in 1991. Despite this, it is worth the effort, although I don't plan to go again as I think I would be disappointed now as I saw the wrecks at their best.

See a link to my pages on most of the wrecks. Michael McFadyen's Scuba Diving Web Site