Kusu Island Resort

How To Get There

Guests can fly into the Bali, Jakarta or Manado international airports and connect to Labuha via Ternate. From there, Kusu Island Resort staff will take you to the resort via car (20 minutes) and later a speed boat (40 minutes).

Dive Overview

Halmahera is the largest of the Indonesian Maluku Islands. Being tropical, it is covered with lush forests that remain intact and unspoilt. All across the island, majestic volcanoes rise out of a calm sea fringed by pristine beaches of white sand. The surrounding coral reefs offer exceptional conditions for scuba diving, swimming, and snorkeling.

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Accommodation Overview

The Kusu Island Resort offers guests 8 beautiful villas. These 72-square-meter villas are built on stilts over the ocean, offering both a breathtaking ocean view and complete privacy. Each open-plan villa is unique, complete with sustainable design features and furniture. The villas are outfitted with either a king-sized bed or twin beds, are completely air-conditioned, and come equipped with a mini-fridge and a room safe. The bathrooms are equipped with Balinese-style showers with hot water, as well as sustainable toiletries and sun lounge towels.

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Ocean Villa

Escape to a luxurious 72-square-meter villa on stilts, featuring breathtaking ocean views, sustainable design, and complete privacy.  All villas can contain double beds, but only 4 of them can fit twin beds.

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Room price based on double occupancy

Food & Drinks

Guests are served meals three times a day, as well as afternoon tea completed with freshly baked delicacies. Coffee, tea, and fresh fruit are also available throughout the day. The restaurant is built by the sea with a full window facade. Complete with comfortable couches and coffee tables and built with sustainable materials, the restaurant is the ideal spot to relax and enjoy the ocean view.

North Mollucas Dive Overview

Scuba diving in North Mollucas is not only exceptional but also extraordinarily varied: wrecks in Ternate, emerald waters and schools of fish in Tidore, vertiginous and pelagic walls in Bacan, drift dives in the Patinti Strait, not to mention beautiful coral gardens.

You can expect to see an abundance of small and medium reef life including barracudas, surgeonfishes, bumphead parrotfish, trevallies, giant trevallies, spadefish, Napoleon wrasse, tunas, bonitos, waow, manta rays, and mobula rays.

There is also some excellent muck diving with highlights including pygmy seahorse, frogfish, leaf fish, and scorpionfish.

All this to a backdrop of black coral forests, gorgonian fields, soft corals, and so much more...

Diving Conditions

• Water temperature 27C - 29C.
• Medium - strong currents (depending on themoon phrases in this area)

Dive Center Information

Dive Center Overview

Conveniently located at the end of the jetty, the Kusu Island Resort Dive & Water Sports Center offers easy access to the magnificent house reef. Featuring a camera room and personal equipment storage area, the dive center is sure to cater to a diver's every need. There is also a small shop section where guests can buy souvenirs. Due to the limited amount of snorkeling and diving rental gear available, guests are requested to reserve the required equipment at the time of booking. Kayaking in wooden boats is also offered.

Dive Center Features

• You can choose to dive air or nitrox
• 1:4 guide to guest ratio
• Full set of PADI courses in English, German, Spanish and Italian
• Equipped with Bauer compressors and 4 diving boats
• 11-liter and 15-liter tanks available
• Aluminum tanks with INT and DIN valves (DIN adaptors are also available)
• Camera room