In my 5 years of traveling I have never experienced an owner and a place as awful as this. 1: There was no electricity. The generator they use was broken I only found this out that night when trying to sleep with no working fan, and no mosquito net (as what they advertised online). I had to sleep on the beach due to the heat, and when I talked to the owner in the morning his response was "what do you expect on an island, I slept fine". 2: The food is a scam as other comments have said before. They change the price of the meal depending on what they serve and don't tell you what your being served. I ended up paying nearly double what I expected to. 3: When objecting to the price due to no electricity the woman working there started threatening me saying she will call the police and I won't be leaving that island. I work and live in Dili. I have had no issues with getting scammed until now. Avoid this place at all costs.

The place I stayed for 2 nights. Nice and friendly staff. It’s quite simple and no-frills. Rooms do not have air-conditioning, the prices vary depending on garden room or sea view room. Food prepared in the kitchen was delicious, they also have vegetarian options. Dive instructors go out everyday depending on the number of divers, if you’re snorkeling you can also follow the boat. Depends on distance covered, the dive price also varies, starting from $60. I made some very nice friends at this resort. There is also wifi unlike at other resorts.

This place is so beautiful. The grounds are very well maintained and everything is neat and clean. The staff are so friendly and welcoming and the food is comforting and delicious. I highly recommend this place if you're planning to dive or snorkel. The sea view room is worth the extra money to have a shower inside and views of the ocean from your room. All toilets at shared facilities and pit toilets. The rooms are basic but comfortable and cleaned daily.

Very good experience! The rooms are very well adapted to the surrounding nature, with comfortable beds, protected with mosquito nets (essential!), electricity access, fans, a locker (with a key) and a private shower (cold water, naturally). The food is very good! You have free access to drinkable water and coffee. They have homemade ice creams which are very tasty. The location is amazing for you to have a quick swim (you're literally 30 to 50 m from the water) and watch an amazing moonlight. The staff is really friendly and always willing to help. Be prepared with some cash for you to pay any local consumption.

Fabulous place with great people and a great house reef We stayed for 2 weeks and could have stayed much longer. The cabins are great, lots of places to lounge and relax. You can snorkel right from shore and the house reef is amazing in both directions. They do dive trips but also took great care of us as snorkelers and we went to spots on all sides of the island with them, each of which was great in its own way. Nice breakfast included in the morning and then you have the option of having lunch and/or dinner for an extra $10 and these were all delicious, varied and cooked very well with vegetarian options available. There good wifi in the common areas and nearby cabins. The location is just a short walk from the pier. The island itself is a gem and the reef honestly some of the best we have seen in the world. The people here were just great; really friendly and helpful throughout. I already miss this place and am thinking about my return trip.

We have been here for 10 days and loved everything ❤️ about it.... The huts 🛖 are roomy and beds very comfortable, food is nice and everyone is very friendly. All huts and rooms get cleaned daily and linen changed every second day ....everything is spotless and clean . The views are to die for and all the feedback about the snorkelling and diving is top class 👏. Highly recommended this place to anyone comming to Atauro 😍

We did snorkeling couple of times there...snorkeling autauro is one of the best experiences ever...the staff there and very friendly and they make sure that you experience the snorkelling or dive at the fullest ..Totally we njoyed it to the fullest 😍😍😍

Stayed 3 nights in Atauro Dive Resort. Rooms are simply but comfortable. Great food for breakfast, lunch and dinner, nice spots and hammocks to relax, helpful staff and, which is very unique to Timor-Leste, a good working Wifi!! I could work on my laptop in the restaurant between the dives. I did 3 dives which were incredible, the one directly at the reef next to the resort was probably my favorite.

Great spot, comfortable rooms. We had a beach front room with a shower, all toilets are shared. Fantastic reef directly out the front. Easy walk from the ferry, friendly service.

This place is great! If coming to Atauro, I would definitely recommend staying here. The staff were wonderful. Fabienne and Marty truly wanted us to have the best experience possible and are so friendly. Marty knows the dive sites here like the back of his hand so I would definitely recommend scuba diving with him. The plant based food is delicious. Home cooked, locally sourced, healthy. The only thing I would say is bring some earplugs with you as depending on where your room is, the generator might keep you up at night. Thanks you Atauro Dive Resort for your wonderful hospitality.

Atauro Island is regarded as one of the hidden gems of world diving. The reef is just mind-blowingly good. Kilometre after kilometre of incredible reef, millions upon millions of fish, hundreds of species. The water is warm and the visibility is incredible. Atauro Dive Resort has two dive boats, Saffy I and Saffy II, and all the gear you would expect from a well-run and professional dive school. Volker has thousands of dives under this belt, and it shows. Downside? Not much really. Atauro can be complicated to get to. For Australians, flights to Dili, the capital of Timor Leste, presently only depart from Darwin, and getting to Darwin from any other Australian capital can be expensive. Flights to Dili are also not every day. Once you are in Dili, you will need to either catch the Mission Aviation Fellowship flight to Atauro (a little six seater hitting a dirt strip on Atauro) or get a ferry or fishing boat from the port at Dili. The boats are much cheaper but take much longer. None of them run daily, so I would suggest that the first thing you do is plan your transit from Dili to Atauro and back, then build the rest of your arrangements around that. This may require a night or two in Dili, which is a bit of a hole. The luggage allowance on the MAF flight is only 10 kilos, but extra can be purchased. If you have a heap of gear get the boat. All diving equipment is available onsite, so just bring your personal faves. On Atauro itself, the resort is quite basic. It's a place to sleep between dives. The rooms are basic wooden huts with thatched roofs, but conspicuously clean and well maintained. The bungalows have their own shower; the garden rooms and the dorms have a shared shower; neither has hot water, but you won't need it. Toilets are shared, long drop with western style toilet seats. Three meals a day are made on site for $10 each. You get what you get, there is no menu, but honestly the food has been fantastic. Fried chicken, whole baked fish, excellent steamed vegetable, curries. They cater to vegetarians and diet restrictions. Oh, and you have to try Saffy's come made ice cream. People come from all over the island for it. Electricity can be intermittent. The mains runs for 4 hours in the morning, and 4 hours in the evening. Volker has a solar system and a generator, but if these don't work when the mains is off, you don't have power. So charge your electronics when the power is on. The dive equipment is solid. I did 16 dives using tanks filled on site, and did not have a single problem. Sound diving procedures were practiced at all times during the dives. Most entry is back-roll entry from the boat, and your DM will likely use an SMB on ascent but it is not really necessary, the reef is essentially empty. Nitrox is not available, nor are any of the weird gases for you tech divers. All dives are no-decompression dives. Remember, the nearest decompression tank is in Bali, which is a long way away. It's generally not considered OK to let your no-deco time go below 10, 8 at the very least. Drop tanks are not customarily released. But there are no wrecks, and there is nothing better to see deep than you will see further up the wall or slope, so why go deep and go into deco? Night diving is available as a shore entry. Dives are generally organised each evening for the next day. The DMs will tell you what dives are on, and you let them know if you want to come. Simple. Dives are USD60 each, and a three-dive boat tour on the West side of the island, which basically takes all day, is USD180 including lunch. Night dives cost USD80. All dives include a guide. If you are keen you can easily do 3 dives a day, and 4 if people are up for a night dive. If you want one of those dive trips where you live in luxury but then have a dive here and there, Atauro isn't for you. If you're after a real adventure, and dive after dive on some of the very best reef in the world, this is for you. I absolutely loved my time here, and I will be back.

We had a brilliant stay here in Dec 2023 over New Year. Really friendly place, staff were cool. Room was basic (dorm room) but it was great for the price, exactly as expected. Food was super (make sure you request the meal in plenty of time - food options very limited on the island!!) Diving is just stunning - there is just so much to see and Atauro in general is so great, so beautiful. Communication before we arrived was great - Volker was so helpful and replied to my questions so fast. We were also very grateful for I always give at least one negative point - here I would say that it needs to be clear how much cash you need to bring with you! Its our problem really, but we didnt bring enough cash (if you do lots of diving, you need a lot!) so we had to do some stressful international transfers. There is no ATM on the island and you cant pay by card!