Bluewater Travel

Only 5 star experience with “bluewater travel”! Laura has been helping me arranging my diving and land trips/ simple and very complex. She is very knowledgeable and has years of experience in the field. She genuinely cares about her costumers. Every trip I booked with this operator was outstanding. I highly recommend Bluewater travel for diving holidays .

We've booked several trips through Bluewater. Tim and Sabine have proved superbly competent and communicative. They understand what types of travel we enjoy and what we don't. I was also extremely impressed at their handling of our trips when COVID shut down the world; they were able to work with the boat operators to rebook us after the world reopened.

We've just returned from a month of diving in North Sulawesi. Having no experience using Blue Water Travel I reached out to the team on a cold call. I was quickly directed to Sandrine, an agent with experience in the area we wanted to visit. With keen attention to our list of hopes and wishes she designed a three destination trip that checked all the boxes. We began in Manado at the Murex resort and it was clear that Blue Water Travel was our agent. We were given the white glove treatment, for the next 3 weeks my wife and I had our own personal dive guide. We dove many of the Bunaken National Marine Park/ Manadotua sites for a week of wall diving at it's finest. When an issue arose requiring three days of construction work to a damaged jetty at the resort Sandrine arranged for boat diving in the afternoon at no cost. Next stop was Bangka where our deluxe hillside room was not only very private but also newly upgraded. We left the walls of Bunaken for what turned out to be a great mix of macro diving and more beautiful reefs. After 7 days on Bangka we were transfered by boat to the Lembeh straits, we did 2 dives along the way (an added bonus). The resort that Sandrine had suggested for accomodations was the Lembeh Resort, they collaborate with Critters at Lembeh that runs the dive operation side of the house. At each step of our adventure Sandrine was available to us by email, phone, and text. Her commitment to customer satisfaction did not end when we paid the balance for the trip. Always willing to take the next step with us she even arranged for us to dive Nusa Penida in Bali after we left Sulawesi. The team at Blue Water Travel is professional and patient...actually thoughtful in every detail. Thank to Sandrine, Tim and the rest of the team for helping to make our trip an incredible experience.

I’ve always loved joining liveaboards, but sometimes it gets tricky trusting a boat and booking directly. I’ve had my fair share of issues dealing with boats canceling multiple times, having leaks, and unprofessional staff. Nobody wants to spoil a dive holiday. Thankfully, I met Tim of Blue Water when he visited the Philippines. Now booking a liveaboard just got easier as Blue Water can help me filter out the good boats, and decide on the best months for my dive destinations. There is after sales in Blue Water too, as they can recommend nearby hotels, etc.

All things said, I am very much satisfied with the service of Blue Water. I recommend consulting and booking with them for any dive-related trips. I'm sure to book with them for my next liveaboards!

I have booked 2 trips with Jaime Smith at Bluewater Travel recently.
I have had excellent service and results. Some of the booking has been in fairly remote parts of Indonesia, I tried booking myself but not able to. Jaime was able to negotiate the difficulty of sending money to remote Indonesia without problem. From now on Bluewater Travel will be my “go to” for all my dive travel.