You'll love Atmosphere...at least I do. Been twice and have been blown away by the quality of their dive staff (very cool muck diving), the food, staff overall and pricing--pretty much five star at three star rates. They run their large, comfortable boat over to Apo Island regularly. It's about a half-hour ride each way. Or, if you want only coral, try
Amun Ini on Bohol. Beautiful, new resort with another excellent staff and fine food. Diving is gorgeous coral with walls right off shore. Super white sand beach as well. Very short boat rides at either place and high-quality dive boats.
For the best possible experience, do both! It's about an hour and a half high-speed ferry ride (and a half hour of driving on each end) to get from one to the other. Contact Bigs Eggert at
bigs@atmosphereresorts.com and she can set you up. You'll love her and she reps for both properties. If you're doing your AOW while there, Frank at Atmosphere is a great instructor and a lot of fun. Tell him Mark says hi and to try diving in the ocean instead of the pool sometime.
Seriously, great people and fantastic facilities with wonderful diving. You can't go wrong.
Oh, I was there when the typhoon went through and neither of them suffered any damage. Amun Ini was also unaffected by the earthquake on Bohol.