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Layang Layang 88005, Malaysia | Full-board + 3 dives from $318++/ppn
Important Note: Layang Layang will be closed throughout 2023, and plan to reschedule their operation in 2024. For further information, alternative resorts, or 2024 bookings at this resort please email us at bookings@bluewaterdivetravel.com or call us at 310-915-6677 and we will gladly help you plan your dream dive vacation!
Layang Layang Quick Pitch
The serene and beautiful island of Layang Layang is nestled into several beautiful coral reefs. With comfortable accommodations and tropical serenity, it is a dive traveler's haven.
Quick Information
- No of Rooms: 86
- Dive Center: On-site. Welcoming guests from March until July
- Amenities: AC, ensuite bathrooms, private verandas, mini-fridge, televisions, lounge/bar, pool, bird sanctuary, conference room, wifi, souvenir shop, Nitrox
- WiFi: Yes, free
- Nearest International Airport: Kota Kinabalu International Airport
- Airport shuttle: Yes
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Accommodations - Resort Facilities - Package & Rates
Dive Information - Dive Center Facilities - Underwater Gallery
How to Get There
Layang Layang is located 300 km northwest of Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysia. Guests fly into the Kota Kinabalu International Airport, then board a domestic flight to Layang Layang.
Dive Overview
With coral walls plummeting over 6,000 feet and hosting a wide range of corals, macro life, and sharks including schooling hammerheads, thresher sharks, and leopard sharks, Layang Layang Island is a diver's paradise. Layang Layang Island Resorts on-site dive center offers a large range of dive options and courses, placing careful emphasis on reef conservation.
Accommodations
Types of Rooms, Amenities and Photos
All rooms are fitted with plush pillows and luxury mattresses to assure out guests of a good rest. Sleep in the comfort of our oversized Hollywood twin size beds and look forward to an ultimate dive experience. With a separate living room and extended private verandah, the suite room offers an incomparable stay on this magical atoll. The suite also comes with its own private Jacuzzi bath tub, TV and satellite channels.
Standard Rooms
Designed along the concept of a traditional Sabahan longhouse, the Standard room is a cozy room with a rustic feel. With extra large twin beds and ensuite bathroom, it offers a comfortable and refreshing stay after a day of dive adventure.
- 28.33 m²
- Twin beds
- Private verandah
- Ensuite bathroom with rain shower
- Guest amenities
- TV with ASTRO channels
- Air-conditioning
- Coffee & tea making facilities
- Writing desk
- IDD telephone
Resort Facilities
Layang Layang Resort Features
- 86 air-conditioned room with extra size beds, private shower, mini bar, telephone, private verandah, TV and coffee and tea facilities.
- Swimming Pool, Snorkeling and Migratory Bird’s Sanctuary
- Restaurant of 150 pax capacity serves Asian and Continental Spatiality.
- Bar Serving exotic cocktails and refreshing soft drinks.
- Souvenir shop & Conferences room
- Dive center
Layang Layang Resort Food & Drinks
All-inclusive meals consisting of Asian cuisine with international influence. Meals are served as either buffet-style or as daily menus.
Package & Rates
Layang Layang Resort Rates
Important Note: Layang Layang will be closed throughout 2023, and plan to reschedule their operation in 2024. For further information, alternative resorts, or 2024 bookings at this resort please email us at bookings@bluewaterdivetravel.com or call us at 310-915-6677 and we will gladly help you plan your dream dive vacation!
Dive Information
Dive Overview
Offering a kaleidoscopic underwater world like no other, the island is dubbed as one of the world’s best dive destinations with its breathtaking underwater scenery of vibrant coral walls and the pristine, large sea animals in the crystal clear water where visibility is between 30 and 60 meters year-round. Hammerhead sharks, pygmy seahorses, Jacks and Barracudas as well as rare manta rays are among the unique marine lives here.
Dive Sites
- Gorgonian Forest - One of the main areas of hammerhead sharks, its most beautiful feature is the dense forest-like formation of gorgonian sea fans that line the drop-off wall. Schooling fish large and small are abundant here and the hard corals are spectacular. Sponges of fantastic proportions grow along the walls and the sea whips spear the blue.
- Crack Reef - A relaxing dive site with lots of reef activity and gravity-defying corals, spongers, sea-whips and sea-fans. The fish tumble down the walls side and then race back up the wall as if going to the surface for air. Turtle cruise indifferently along the steep walls and white-tip sharks drift by lazily. It's called Crack-Reef because the dive begins on a large vertical crack in the wall that starts at the surface and plummets to 40m+.
- D’Wall - A vertical, straight-down free-fall, it is an amazing piece of nature with the drop-off starting in 1m of water and abruptly dropping into 2,000m of water. The wall plummets to the depths so mind your buoyancy and depth of control of a 40m limit. Schools of surgeons and jacks cascade down the face of the wall like a waterfall.
- Dogtooth Lair - This is a one-in-a-million dive. It has all that one could wish for from large to small of both fish and corals. Turtle gently glide along, schools of fusiliers and surgeonfish swim by, and swirling horse-eye jacks move like
- twisters across the thick and healthy coral formations. There are overhangs and ledge to be explored. One can find stingrays asleep next to white-tip reef sharks.
- Bird Island Sanctuary - The underwater wonder has some competition above water – Bird Island, where countless migratory birds seek refuge within the huge lagoon.
- Navigator Lane - This is magnificent dive with an abundance of healthy corals, sea fans, whips and fantastic hard coral formations so dense that you cannot put your hands down without damaging the corals! The dive is one of spectacular color and breathtaking beauty. Hammerhead sharks are seen here on a regular basis and in great numbers.
- Sharks' Cave - Start the dive on the edge of the drop off in 3m water and drift down the face to a sand ledge where Leopard sharks rest. Move slowly and carefully, you’ll be able to get close to them. Swimming past sea fans, whips and coral formations, you’ll see tuna and reef sharks glide by the come in close. You then find yourself in front of Sharks' Cave.
- Snapper Ledge - Snapper Ledge is a safe and easy dive with magnificent corals and colorful reef fish. For photographers, it’s a good spot for wide-angle, macro and close-up, when the sun is directly on it. One can simply drift along with the current and relax-lah, as we say in Malaysia.
Dive Center Information
Layang Layang Island Resort Dive Center Overview
The in-house PADI Dive Center is professionally run by a team of 10 experienced and qualified instructors who shared among themselves a total of thousands of dives at Layang Layang Island. Diving facilities and courses are comprehensive and interesting.
Dive Center Features
- PADI Dive Center headed by certified instructors with a team of qualified dive masters
- A team of dive boats that will get you to various dive sites within 10 to 30 minutes
- Equipment for rent: BCDs, regulators, fins, masks, snorkels, wetsuit, dive torch.
- 300 units of 80cu ft aluminum tanks
- Bauer KAP 180 compressors
- 20 sets of BCDs and regulators
- Lots of fins, masks, booties, weights and belts
- PADI Diving Courses conducted regularly
OTHER INFORMATION
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
- Electricity: 220 & 110 V
- Time zone: UTC+8
- Languages: Malay & English
- Accept Credit Cards?: Yes, Visa & Master Card
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