Val Saknenko

Review of Lembeh Hills Resort

Your best friend in Lembeh!

Your best friend in Lembeh!
I attended the Underwater Macro Videography Workshop with Sascha Janson in July 2017. From the very first minutes after arrival to the resort we felt like we visited our old friends, who missed you for years and are very happy to finally see you, and who are trying their best to make your stay as enjoyable and comfortable as possible. All resort staff was very friendly and helpful. They memorized first name of every guest, and were greeting everyone by their first name.

If there is any personal event, they will make sure that it is celebrated as well. I did my 100th dive during this trip, and they carved a water melon for me and decorated my bed. It was very touching and much appreciated.

One of the advantages of going to a such remote place is that most guests are very experienced divers (and in this case UW photographers), and being surrounded by such an experienced group of divers was an extra benefit. With my 100 dives I was one of the most 'junior' divers (not by age although).

The Workshop with the Award-Winning UW Photo/Video Pro Sascha Janson that I attended was very intensive and was delivered very well. Sascha kept the group very small (4 people), which had many benefits. I was not surprised that I learned a lot, but in our group there were two very experienced UW videographers, who mentioned that the workshop was very useful to them as well. In addition, Sascha was very helpful not only with giving tones of tips and tricks, but also with equipment. It felt like he knows and could fix anything.

Our boat crew was excellent, and critter hunters, Fandy and Vadly, were amazing in finding all those small critters that Lembeh is famous for.

My wife, who is not a diver, had a very good time as well. She took a trip to the village, had massage every other day (Angel is an excellent masseur) and went with us to a few dive sites for snorkelling.

Overall, we were very satisfied with the resort, and we would give it a nickname "Your best friend in Lembeh".

Big THANK YOU to the resort management, Morten and Petra, Lauren and Sascha, who created such genuinely friendly atmosphere and made our stay such a pleasure. We hope to see you again in the future.