Octopus Resort offers three types of accommodation: budget, premium, and family villas. The budget option includes two different styles: a private bungalow and the garden bure. The private bungalow is a great option for couples and is furnished with a large king bed. The garden bure is great for groups and families of four adults. All budget rooms include a ceiling fan, shared private bathroom, in-room safe, towels, and housekeeping. Premium room styles include the premium garden bure, beachfront bure, poppies luxury lodge, the point beachfront suites, and the deluxe beachfront suite. These choices can accommodate anywhere from two to four adults and include all of the same luxuries as the budget rooms as well as a private balcony or porch. Some also offer Wi-Fi, TV, complimentary mini bar, and an outdoor hammock. The family villas include a two-bedroom beachfront villa and a three-bedroom villa that can accommodate up to six adults. These include air conditioning, Wi-Fi, a king-sized pillow-top bed, and private chaise lounges and umbrella.
The resort’s restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner included in the meal plan rate. Breakfast includes in-season fruit, toast, preserves, cereals, yogurts, tea, coffee, juice, an omelet station, and other hot breakfast items. Lunch is served a la carte. Lunch includes salad, burgers, a wrap, Thai chicken curry, fruit platters, and smoothies. Dinner has a regularly changing menu that includes the main course and dessert. Dinner is served a la carte four nights a week, three nights of the week dinners are family-style, and one night is a BBQ night.
The resort is home to its own PADI dive operation that offers guests trips to explore nearly forty dive sites that include reefs, walls, drop-offs, swim through pinnacles, and two wreck dives. All sites range from three to twenty-five minutes by boat from the resort and all dives are with experienced local guides. Shore dives can be arranged upon request. There are three dives a day: one at 9 am, another at 11 am, and the afternoon dive at 2 pm. Sundays only include afternoon single or two-tank dives. The resort is known for having clear waters with great visibility and amazing coral sea fans on the walls and drop-offs. Divers often spot sharks, turtles, lobsters, tiny nudibranchs, shrimp, and crabs. There is also an array of hard and soft corals. Guests can also take part in courses or specialty dives such as night, wreck, peak performance buoyancy, photography, and drift diving. The dive shop offers all equipment such as wetsuits, fins, masks, and BCD’s. Guests are welcome to bring their own gear or rent from the resort.
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