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Plusses: comfortable bed, excellent anti-mosquito setup, good air con and ceiling fan, excellent food, nice (though not extremely efficient) staff, attractive grounds, nice pool though hard to get in and out of it, good boats for snorkeling excursions. Minuses: terrible wifi: usually non-functional in the room, when functional is slow. Electricity went off several times and water once. Hot water insufficient. Sink doesn’t drain. ”Ocean view” is a lie - the rooms look out on the garden. Not all-inclusive: you pay extra not only for beer (which is reasonable) but for half the food choices on the menu (not reasonable). Most disappointing of all, the snorkeling is much worse than billed. The “house reef,” touted as ”packed with beautiful corals and a variety of marine life,” is in reality practically nonexistent. At many excursion sites all a snorkeler sees (aside from turtles) is extensively bleached coral and a few tiny fish. The only sites with halfway decent snorkeling are on Siladen and behind Bunaken.