Agnes Gateway Hotel

How To Get There

Munda and Agnes Gateway Hotel are the most readily accessible places outside of the capital. Once you reach Honiara after flights from either Brisbane, Nadi or Port Moresby, Solomon Airlines domestic service has at least two flights every day into Munda from Honiara, and one or two inbound flights from Gizo daily. Pre-booked visitors who have requested transfer assistance will be met at either Noro Port or Munda Airport. The transfer time from the port to Munda is about half an hour by bus or canoe. The transfer time from the airport to Agnes Gateway Hotel is just three minutes' walking!

Dive Overview

The dive center offers in excess of 30 dive sites in and around Munda and the surrounding reefs. They regularly explore and locate new and exciting sites.

[Read More: Solomon Islands Dive Travel Guide]

Accommodation Overview

Agnes Gateway Hotel offers a range of accommodation from suites and stand-alone cottages to budget rooms and backpackers dormitories. The guest rooms are either twin or double bedded and all have their own facilities. The triple backpacker rooms and dormitories, share facilities and some have a shared kitchen for self catering. All rooms are mosquito netted and fan cooled. They are serviced daily.

Food & Drinks

Roviana Restaurant is open from early morning until late, and serves a range of local dishes and English cuisine for breakfast, lunch and diner.

Dive Information

Diving In Munda

The diving in Munda is very special and magical - possibly some of the best sites in the world. Spectacular walls drop off to over 600 meters. Grey, Blacktip and Whitetip Reef sharks routinely patrol, as do Hammerheads. Eagle rays, Dogtooth Tuna, Barracuda and other pelagics are also common. Encounters with any of the species of big sharks and rays are always exciting, and divers who prefer macro subjects will be enthralled by the smaller critters such as Pygmy Seahorses, varieties of Anemone fish, Spiny Lobsters and Fiery Dartfish. Mundas reefs are in pristine condition, with lush hard and soft corals and gigantic sea fans. Snorkelers will mesmerized by the extensive, intact coral gardens in the shallows. In addition to the reefs and abundant marine life, Mundas seabed is littered with wrecks from WWII, with fighter planes, bombers, a Japanese freighter and a recently discovered dump site with tanks. Visibility varies from 15 to 40+ meters. The wet season tends to begin late December and tapers off in March, although they dive year-round.

For divers who want to extend their bottom times or increase their safety margins, they offer Enriched Air Nitrox fills. Do keep in mind they are in a remote area and Nitrox fills are not always available.

Dive Center Information

Agnes Gateway Hotel Dive Center Overview

The Dive Munda is an intimate and friendly operation with a customized approach to your diving needs. Their great local staff on board, led by an experienced Instructor Trainer, will offer you incredible diving paired with personalized service. Whether you have never dived before, wanting to become a dive professional or you have already logged thousands of hours underwater, they plan their diving around you. The center stocks a range of well-maintained rental sport-diving equipment, including Nitrox and our boats are equipped with oxygen and other first aid necessities. They have two 7m fibreglass boats fitted for diving and powered by Yamaha F100 four-stroke outboards as well, another 7m boat fitted with a Yamaha 40HP engine.

Practical Information

• Electricity: 220V
• Time zone: UTC+11
• Languages: English, Pidgin & Roviana
• Accept Credit Cards?: Yes (Visa & Mastercard)