Manta Ray Bay Hotel Yap

We were from 11.08 to 18.08 at the Manta Ray Bay resort and had unforgettable days there In total we made 12 dives with wonderful encounters. Highlights were, of course, the manta rays in the Goofnuw Channel and many white tip reef sharks in the Shark City

A response from the owner is at the end of the original report

It was great on Yap and MRB made a big part of that!

However: one little thing is to be mentioned: We had the Queen Angel Fish Room with the rooftop Jaccuzzi.
BUT: The water was not cleaned before we came in the room and was not cleaned throughout the week. I think it even „flipped“ to be bad during our stay, so we could not use the Jaccuzzi anymore on the last two days of our stay. That was the only negative thing, I could see.
Staff however (reception, maids, bar, restaurant, guides, diveschool etc) were all extra ordinary helpful and nice. Food was gorgeous and we definetly will recommend the MRB!

Dive school itself was great, clean, big freshwater basins for rinsing (cameras etc seperately of course) and they even had Camera tables for working on the equipment with lights, powerplugs (US/110V and EUR/230V!!!) we had own gear, but the rental ones looked in good shape. Briefings were good enough and boatrides short enough.

one fin less for the Jaccuzzi-theme...

And Detlef (head of F&B): Please arrange the menu a bit more towards Europeans with healthy food and out of that not always same kind of fish for example. Even though it was delicious, but we would have loved to get more variety throughout the week...


Response from the owner (Bill Acker)

We want to thank lakerocker for taking the time to make this report and we are glad that overall, things were good. We also take the concern about the water in the Jacuzzi very seriously and have taken steps to insure that every future guest will have clean water. Our only wish would have been that the guests contacted us while they were here so that this could have been corrected immediately to insure full use of our best room in the resort. Our maintenance people are on duty 24/7 to immediately fix/repair/correct anything reported and it’s a shame that this didn’t happen in this case.

End response

Yap - impressions

Zimmer-Roomrservice

Detlef´s food... TOP!

men´s houses

stone money bank

Yap´s highest peak view

dive spots

Restaurant MRB

pool

Queen Angel Fish Room - rooftop jaccuzzi

Queen Angel Fish Room - inside

Manta - close-up - Stammtisch

camera tables 230V EUR / 110V US

rinsing tanks - very clean!!

white Mantis Shrimp

Wir können das MRBR nur bestens empfehlen für jedermann oder -frau. Dieses Resort ist so herzlich vom Personal und auch der Chef Bill Acker ist eine sehr liebenswerte Person, der all Eure wünsche nicht offen lässt sonder umsetzt. Das Hotel ist kein Bunker und sehr familiär. Wir haben auf jeden Fall unsere Zeit dort sehr genossen und können es mit bestem Gewissen weiterempfehlen. Aus unserer Sicht ist auch ein 2ter, 3ter und noch mehr Aufenthalte möglich, denn weg wollten wir eigentlich nicht mehr.
Aber auch das Tauchen möchten wir noch mal hervorheben und ganz besonders Vertigo und Stammtisch. Diese beiden Tauchplätze sind wirklich der Hammer!!! Aber man sollte auch alle anderen Tauchplätze nicht unterschätzen weil bei jedem Tauchgang hatten wir eine positive andere Überraschung. Bitte auch wirklich nicht mit Palau verwechseln. Wir hatten hier eine Kombi gebucht und das war so absolut richtig und auch weiter zu empfehlen. Am Stammtisch hatten wir an einem Tag 12 verschiedene Mantas und am Vertigo über 40 Haie.
Wir werden auf alle Fälle wieder kommen denn es war einfach ein Traum!!!!

Vertigo Michael Arzberger