we were there in low season, so we were lucky to book a nice timber seafront cottage with straw roof and spacious wooden terrace. we preferred the timber bungalows. first row is the best the sea is close-by and one has an uninterrupted sea view. the bed is firm. the room has ac. and a large fridge. this bungalows is exactly as shown on booking.com the common outside dining area is a bit spartan, there is a sort of bar area, but because there were only 4 guests this area was empty. all this will look nicer if there are more guests. there is a dive hire store, but no boat. a few scooters available to rent. (i would reserve one in advance) Large very affordable Bintangs available, the food is the same as everywhere else. booking.com writes about a pool, but it is only the sea, which is safe to swim in. they also say that the bungalows have side sea view, also untrue, they have full frontal sea views. Jasmin is the senior staff woman, and she is very helpful and speaks very good english.

the toilet/wc, next to the inside breakfast building needs improvement. if the resort is fully booked they need more beach loungers/day beds

For the price we pay, it's an absolute bargain to have the beach in front of your own cottage. The room size is super. Clean and wel taken care including the aircon. Breakfast is simple but satisfying, you can order pancake, fried rice and scramble egg. The black rice bread is unique. The beach is maintained well and reasonably clean. We did the snorkling too and it was getting much much better. We went to pangabaan island for snorkling for such a great price for a day trip. The view was breathtaking. Only half hour drive and 45 minutes boat from here. Massage can also be ordered to your own room. I would recommend Sea World for!! everyone

Where to start. The beach location is wonderful. The room that we had looked onto the beach and was just superb. Snorkling was great and the whole site was pretty quiet. Staff are super helpful and friendly. This is a very special place. So much so that we cancelled plans for other spots and drove 5 hours back for another 4 day stay.

Hard to think of any negative. I guess its true that if you go off this site, ie wanter along the beach beyond the site the beach becomes very tatty. But that is a good reason to stay on this beach. The town is also no at all attractive - so again - dont bother with town. Again - for us these are small criticisms. The place is wonderful

Large resort area along nice quiet beach. You can enjoy beach almost alone with fishermen (just few on the evening). Garden bungalows are a bit old but spacious and clean and aircondition is well adequate. Nice small balcony in front. Beach villas however looks really nice and new. Great breakfast with enough options. Food in the restaurant is average, good if you don't miss spicy food. The manager Alfred is nice and can help you with travel bookings. Personel very friendly always.

Location is isolated so you need transportation if you want to move around. It was also very quiet (which is nice) but means that even if I stayed several nights there were nobody else to share boat trip to islads - nothing that hotel can efect and maybe just bad luck.

Beautiful location right on the beach, and under palm and coconut trees. Very kind and helpful staff, they help us to change our flight ticket from Maumere to Ende as the airport is closed. The best Indonesian food restaurant we had in Indonesia during 3 trips. Very delicious food and very tasty...we tasted many on the menu and we were never disappointed. Very good breakfast (pancake, eggs, fruits, toast, jus...) Our cottage room were very comfortable and clean. Very good snorkeling on the left side of the beach and also we recommend the day trip Snorkeling with the hotel. At the end, big thanks to Alfred the manager for his help and kindness. He took us to a day trip to very authentic Flores village, one of our best experience in Flores. If I go again to Maumere, I will stay there again in Sea World Beach Dive.

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Nice room, quiet location off the main road, beautiful beach front with lovely coral garden to the left. Awesome sunset views. Peaceful water, white sand beach. Fell asleep on the deck chairs so easily listening to ocean waters lapping quietly. Good massage (1 person at a time in room) tasty food. Reception arranged our snorkelling trip easily.

I thought the dining staff were a bit unfriendly. I had to go inside to order my food when we were the only guests at the restaurant.

Everything. We've been travelling for ten months, and this was the best value for money we had on the whole trip. It's directly at the beach, which is clean and amazing. The huts are exceptionally clean, bright, and huge. Food is great. Service is perfect. An airport taxi was organised for us very early morning. We could only stay one night, but would have loved to stay a week.

It's very difficult to find! Don't trust Google Maps directions. Find -8.641859,122.308093 on the main road, follow the sign and keep going past the "closed" signs and the old security building until you nearly reach the sea.

Lovely garden setting on the beach with a little cabin "village" in the forest by the sea. The sea is beautiful and calm so it's great for swimming. It was very quiet when we were there but they still put on a nice breakfast and tasty dinners. Very relaxing environment and easy to spend the day by the beach.

It is a bit of a walk to any convenience store so if you don't have a motorbike or car it is a bit isolated.

The beach bus very nice, clean, right in front of our cabin. Food (breakfast, dinner) was very nice.

What was a little odd was that it appeared only ourselves and one other person were staying there. The dive area seemed a little neglected, although we were not seeking to dive. We were not really walking distance to anything, although the staff were helpful in getting us a hire car to visit the town sights/shops.

The location was beautiful and the snorkeling to the left of the beach was incredible! Room was spacious. Overall a good value for the money.

AC struggled to cool the room, there was an overhead fan which helped, but still pretty warm for sleeping. Resort ran out of alcohol of any type 2 different days, very loud music playing 24 hours a day nearby (for communion celebration). Nice place with lots of potential, but needs some preventative maintenance and renovations.