Onong resort has 7 wooden cottages, built in the traditional Minahasa style (from the north of Sulawesi). All cottages are designed according to European standards, bathrooms with running freshwater, hot shower, ceiling fan and air conditioning. There are two different levels of cottages, Standard and Superior, the lasts really large, with two big windows towards our private beach, the sea and Bunaken Marine Park. (One of the Standard Cottages is a family cottage with an extra room with two single beds for kids and/or friends).
The interiors are simple and functional with comfortable beds. The windows
and a ceiling fan ensure a natural cool breeze if you do not want to
use air conditioning. Each cottage has its own terrace with a stunning
view over the Bunaken National Marine Park. Sitting on your terrace
you can enjoy the sounds of the waves breaking on the beach.
Before dinner you might want to enjoy a cup of tea or an aperitif on our private beach and have some time to talk about the experiences of the day with other guests. In our restaurant we offer a quite extraordinary mixture of Indonesian traditional recipes, Italian and international cuisine. Many of our guests say they never had food as good as this in another hotel before!
The Celebes Sea calls you for swimming, diving or snorkeling every time. Our house reef, very close to your cottage, offers a huge number of fascinating animals for macro photography. Most of the diving from Onong resort is on the Bunaken coastline where the diving is at stunning walls that go down to 300 meter or more. Most of the dives are "drift-dives" with currents between moderate and quite strong. Our boats with their skilled crew will be stand-by to pick you up as soon as you surface.
After two dives in the morning you go back to the resort for the lunch at around 1 pm. After the lunch you can spend the afternoon as you want. Around 4 pm there is the possibility to go on the boat for the afternoon dive, you can dive on the house reef or just relax on the beach. Around 6 pm you can join the night dive on the house reef and see completely different creatures as you can see in the daytime.
Although diving at the Bunaken reefs is diving at its best we also organize trips to the Manado Tua and Montehagen Island every week as well as Mandarin fish dives and soon also Fluor-escent diving, a new and astonishing way of night diving. With Fluorescent diving you will see the underwater world in a way you never saw it before! To read more about Fluorescent diving read the page on our Celebes Divers website.
