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Atmosphere Resort and Spa

$2599 USD / 7 nights

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Atmosphere Resort and Spa offers a relaxing setting on a coconut plantation on the island of Negros Oriental. The resort is perfect for families and offers babysitting services and diving opportunities for children. The resort offers return airport and ferry shuttles, Warrior Gym use, and complimentary snorkeling on the house reef with equipment. Atmosphere Resort prides itself on offering accommodations suitable for adaptive divers and the dive team welcomes adaptive divers to the underwater world.

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All of the resort’s accommodation comes with complimentary breakfast, California king beds, solar heated water, eco-friendly personal cosmetics, coffee, tea, fruit, air conditioning, WiFi, flat-screen TVs, and a mini-bar.

The resort offers fourteen Deluxe Suites that all look out over the lush green lawn and tropical gardens. From the hammock or day bed, you can relax and hear the water running gardens. The rooms are furnished with a desk, widescreen TV, WiFi, and an outdoor rain shower in a private garden. Each suite has a California King bed with the option of twin beds, and a third bed can be added.

The Garden Apartments offer spacious lounges with spectacular dining areas and kitchens. The resort offers eight Garden Apartments, all have a veranda with an outdoor lounging area and a hammock. These rooms feature a master bedroom floor to ceiling windows, an indoor-outdoor bathroom with solid mahogany vanity with two sinks, and a daybed.

The six Premium Suites are spacious deluxe rooms that are perfect for two guests. There are large living spaces, sizeable bedrooms, and lounging areas. The indoor-outdoor bathrooms have double sinks and appointed terraces. There is the choice of a California King or a twin bed

The Family Suite Rooms are the resort’s newest rooms and have space for a family of four sharing the same room. The suites feature an area with plenty of room for two double beds or one double bed and one twin, a seating area with comfortable lounge chairs, and a flat screen TV. The indoor-outdoor bathrooms have double sinks, rain showers, and large pocket gardens.

Premium Pool Suites are spacious deluxe rooms for two guests, but have extra amenities, including a terrace with a private infinity pool, and a California King bed with the option for a double or twin bed. There are four Penthouses that are the most spacious accommodation suitable for up to four guests. The Penthouses feature a master bedroom and a guest bedroom with ensuite bathrooms, fully-fitted kitchens that overlooks a huge living and dining areas, and outdoor balconies perfect for dining and relaxing.

At Atmosphere Resort, guests dive amongst the Apo Island walls, and the stunning coral and schooling fish are just a short boat ride away. The dive centre is PADI-certified and offers a wide range of courses in multiple languages. There are instructor courses, photography classes, and marine life presentations. Beginning divers, snorkeler, or experienced photography will always find something new to learn.

Divers can expect small groups with four divers per guide and up to five dives a day. There are night dives offered with no minimum number of divers to schedule a trip, and complementary nitrox for EAN-certified divers. There are several marine life presentations a week, a marine biologist who can dive with you, PADI Instructor Development Courses seven times a year, two in-house photo instructors, and a dedicated camera room. The resort offers babysitting onboard boats and snorkel guides for kids. Hot chocolate is offered after night dives. The Atmosphere dive team offers technical instruction, advanced nitrox, trimix, and side-mount diving. Full technical gear is available and rebreathers are supported.

Apo Island has been a marine sanctuary for more than two decades. The Island has some of the most diverse collections of coral in Asia Pacific. There are over twenty dive sites, with many just minutes off the Apo Island shore. The Cogon reef dive site has a maximum depth of thirty meters and is known for its fierce currents, a perfect site for experienced divers with drift diving experience. The reef offers an assortment of soft corals and sponges to be encountered at this site. There is often a family of bump head parrot fish and the occasional giant trevally. The house reef has a maximum depth of thirty meters and is great for reef and macro diving. The reef is one of the largest coastal sanctuaries and is often done as two or three separate dives. There is another large reef just in front of the resort where soft and hard coral mix with sponges down to twenty-five meters and an array of macro life including mantis shrimps, harlequin shrimps, frogfish, leaf scorpion fish, and ghost pipefish. There are packages that offer unlimited scuba diving, diving off the beach, boat diving, day trips, dusk trips, and night trips. The night trips are great for spotting mandarin fish while the fluoro dives are perfect for seeing the sea in a new light.

Dive Conditions

There are three seasons that affect the diving conditions in the Philippines. The northeast monsoon brings strong winds from December to March. The southwest monsoon affects the months of July through November which are wet but the ocean waters are warm. April through June are the dry months with very little winds.

November to May is the dry season in the Philippines, offering little to no rain and a nice hot and humid weather. This period of time is often considered as the best time to dive in the Philippines and is the most popular time to visit the country. Regardless, the diving season in the Philippines runs year-round, keeping in mind that some of the areas and certain marine life sightings are either seasonal or weather dependent, this includes Tubbataha which can only be dived around the months of March to June. During the wet season, typically runs from May to October, most of the dive sites remain great, the waters are warmer, and divers have the advantage of having uncrowded sites. Typhoons may occur during the wet season, particularly around July to September.

Tubbataha Reefs National Park – amazing biodiversity. Tubbataha is home to no less than 600 species of fish, 360 species of corals (about 50% of the coral species in the world), 11 species of sharks (including tiger sharks, whale sharks, and whitetips), 13 species of dolphins and whales, nesting hawksbill and green sea turtles. You can also see manta rays, schools of barracuda and tuna, and smaller marine life like nudibranchs, ornate ghost pipefish, seahorses, and frogfish.

Anilao, Batangas – best muck diving. The long list of small-scale sea life and critters that you can find in Anilao includes nudibranchs, frogfish, seahorses, cuttlefish, and pipefish. But don't leave your wide-angle lens at home. Beautiful coral reefs, turtles, huge schools of jacks, jellyfish, and the occasional reef sharks await in Anilao.

Dauin, Dumaguete – the luxury destination. The variety of marine life that you can find along the Dauin Coast include various types of frogfish, dragonets, pipefish, nudibranchs, blue-ring octopuses, bobtail squids, mandarin fish, seahorses, cardinalfish (with eggs), various shrimps and crabs. The main diving season in Dumaguete is October to early June, but the prolific marine life of Dauin can be found all year round, so there’s no worry of missing out.

Moaboal, Cebu – amazing sardine baitballs. Scuba diving in Moalboal is diverse and very vibrant. Think big schools of fish, beautiful walls, canyons and caves, and fascinating macro life. Pescador Island offers some of the best dives in the Philippines, featuring a dramatic wall with colorful soft corals teeming with anthias. Then there is a large cathedral on the west side of Pescador which makes a nice background for dramatic underwater shots. You can also see schools of barracuda, beautiful caves, reef sharks, and also smaller marine life like nudibranchs and frogfish

Puerto Galera, Mindoro – stunning white sand beaches and diverse dive sites. Canyons provide plenty of action with strong currents. For divers interested in wrecks, the three sunken boats of the Sabang Wrecks offer a fascinating dive trip. Don't forget to include a day trip to dive at Verde Island during your stay in Puerto Galera. Its passage is known to offer some of the highest biodiversity in the Philippines. Nudibranchs, reef octopuses, frogfish, and seahorses can be seen in abundance in Puerto Galera. There are also many stunning soft and hard corals to be found while exploring the reefs of this dream destination. Like most of the Philippines, Puerto Galera can be dived all-year-round.

Anda, Bohol – the hidden gem. There are 17 kilometers of coastline to explore in Anda, with a good mix of walls, slopes and sandy muck dive sites as well as coral gardens. The diverse underwater topography and critter population in Anda are really worth exploring. Divers can see pygmy seahorses, skeleton shrimps, anemone shrimps, dragon sea moths, mantis shrimps, Napoleon snake eels, nudibranchs, and mating mandarin fish. Turtles and beautiful reef fish can also be seen in the area. Anda can also be dived all-year-round.

Malapascua, Cebu – thresher sharks abound. Malapascua is known to be the best place in the world to see thresher sharks. This tiny oasis is the only place in the world where thresher sharks are consistently seen daily. Combine that with its pristine waters and milky-white beaches, and divers have a perfect destination for a dive vacation.

Coron Bay, Palawan – the destination for wreck dives. The historical World War II shipwrecks of Coron are unique. Coron Bay used to be the harbor for World War II Japanese warships. Eleven of these ships were sunk during an air attack in September 1944. Today the wrecks of serve as reef systems, supporting a number of marine critters. Some of the residents of these wrecks include scorpionfish, nudibranchs, cuttlefish, and octopuses. Divers see the occasional reef shark or stingray, hovering near the wrecks.