Tabari Dive Lodge

Brigitte and her team will make you feel at home. Snorkeling and dive trips are wonderful, the team is top!!

What can I say except that I spent a dream week, everything was perfect, the landscape, the comfortable bungalow with its feet in the water, Brigitte and Jeff are super nice, friendly, generous hosts who share their passions places and diving… I strongly recommend this address, and I will return there as soon as possible ❤️

I would 100% recommend to stay here. The bungalows are simple, but the view is out of this world. The food is really nice (healthy!) with great variety. Yes the shower is brackish, but you’ll be ok! The reef on the island is great for snorkeling, and the sunsets… words cant describe those.Special thanks to our divemaster Like. Who was super friendly and knowledgable. And of course to Brigitte, for her amazing hospitality skills.

Little paradise on earth!In love with this place, we went to Tabari for the second timeHeavenly accommodation with a preserved coral reef. The place is worth the thousand excursions offered. The room is worthy of luxury comfort. (fan, very comfortable mattress, cleanliness of the accommodation, multiple amenities that make your stay pleasant on this desert island)Staff always available and smiling. Transmitting their love for marine life and their traditions.A couple of owners who always listen to our every request and care about their customers. A nod to Brigitte who made my stay peaceful and reassuring with my pregnancy. No need for a hospital, she will repair your injuries and watch over you.Thanks to Olen and Nikson for all the sea trips, very good guide!Thanks to the staff for the culinary delights!If you want to live a timeless travel experience I recommend this place.Thank you for these two wonderful trips over the last two years. Emeline and Sacha

Back in France we are nostalgic for our stay/diving.We warmly thank Brigitte, Fred and their team who made our stay wonderful.A stay in Robinson Crusoe but with the maximum comfort that a small island can offer.From breakfast to evening meal everything was perfect.The communication beforehand, the help on arrival, the welcome, the accommodation, the dives, all delighted us.We highly recommend them.Good luck to them and see you again.

Tabari Dive Lodge was an unforgettable stay for us. We had a great time with the guests, Brigitte and Jeff and their team.This place is synonymous with friendliness, comfort, the food is delicious and varied, the snorkeling or diving excursions are incredible, the experience of being alone on an island...I can only recommend you to stay in this hotel!

If you want to experience an enchanted break on a small island in the Raja Ampat archipelago... then don't hesitate for a single second... You will be in Paradise and alone in the World.Thank you Brigitte and Jeff for your welcome, your dedication and your kindness..Everything came together to spend an unforgettable week in a zen and super friendly atmosphere.The diving center is incredible and the location of the island allows you to do a lot of spots, all different from each other.Thank you to the whole very professional team.Snorkeling at the foot of our bungalow is also perfect.Sunrises and sunsets will forever remain in our hearts.

Our week at Tabari Dive Lodge was perfect in every way: the bungalows are very pretty, the setting is magnificent, the food is delicious and the dives are incredible with great equipment. As soon as you set foot on the pontoon, you already feel at home!A big thank you to you Brigitte for your welcome and all the work you do in this little corner of paradise. We are already looking forward to coming back.

We stayed at that incredible place for 9 nights Tabari is quite a precious discovery in Raja-Ampat area. It is on Pulau Merpati, a tiny island. It takes about an hour to get there from Waisai by a speedboat only. The trip like that will take for about an hour. Brigitte and Jeff, and their incredible team make the stay of their guests unforgettable and comfortable.Tabari means:- family-like environment away from the civilization- daily shark feeding- mind-blowing sunsets- picturesque house reef with turtles and other sea creatures- exquisite French / Indonesian cuisine- diving guided by careful and experienced staff at various sites- marine trips to neighboring islands- sounds of exotics birds and tides- Milky Way in the night sky, which one cannot tear their eyes away.The electricity is available in the morning and evenings; when it is on, the internet by Starlink works like a swing.The bungalows are cozy with the WC and shower. The real gigantic shell is adapted as a wash basin. There are canopies over beds. There were on almost no mosquitos during our stay in late July. At times you can spot some little cute geckos in the bungalow, they hunt insects. There is a hammock on the verandah of a bungalow, so it is nice to chill there enjoying the view.Room cleaning is on the daily basis. Bath and beach towels are provided, which is very comfortable.Meals are served 3 times day at the large table with all the guests seated round, then it is nice to discuss with other guests what has been seen and experienced during the day. We felt at ease like in a real family. Tea / coffee, cookies and some fruit are available at the kitchen during the day.The house reef is magnificent, very vibrant, diverse, soft and stony corals, many sea creatures!Bridget carefully organizes transfers from Waisai and back, she can agree upon a taxi from the ferry to Sorong airport, she is a helping hand with all the issues. Overall, she is wonderful lady and a perfect hostess! Tabari is definitely a place to stay.It is worth going there in spite of limited electricity / the internet, no AC and always cool and salty shower in the bathroom. But you are to know what you are striving for while going there.

Let me start by saying that a friend of mine went in my place, since I got sick. I report his words below. "I usually don't write reviews, but the indecency of the pillows forces me to write. The excuses I was given (the pillows were like this only in my room, according to them they clean the island once a month, raise the already high price for installing a desalination plant, the control of wildlife to protect it from ingesting poisoned mice, they don't know of home stays that cost 35-50 euros with their services, well I do) they are an insult to my intelligence, so please avoid. The pillows are full of mold and stains, smelly and sticky. Who knows how long they have been like this since they are BLACK. Of course the place is remote, without fresh water with a lot of humidity. These are explanations that a homestay can give me local but I don't accept them from a lodge with European managers who go to town more or less every day and occasionally might take the mosquito nets, pillows, sheets, pillowcases and towels to a laundry if they can't wash them properly. And instead they put a pillowcase over those shameful pillows. This says it all about the respect they have for their guests and the management of the place. Looking carefully, many things were dirty (I repeat, the managers are European and should have a different standard): under the bed it is not swept, above the top shelves it is full of sand, the mosquito net is all stained, the fan (between the (other unusable because tiny) is all encrusted with dead midges and other black dirt. For 80 euros a night I ask for the essentials: a clean bed and bathroom.They have a problem with mice (as obviously the island is not virgin) which they kill with poison, regardless of wild animals such as birds of prey and reptiles which can then feed on the poisoned mice and die.The quantity of food is small, as if they wanted to save money (I speak for myself, perhaps other people find it sufficient).I didn't do any activities with them by choice because they didn't offer anything new to what I'd already seen previously and the price was still higher than elsewhere.The water in the bathroom in the room is salty, for the price they ask they should equip themselves with a desalinator. It's salty, not slightly salty as they would have you believe. The degree of salinity varies slightly depending on the tide. And during the time I was there it often rained, so it doesn't depend on the rain. In local homestays where there is no fresh water they often go to get it from the springs, here they tell you that we are on an island in the middle of the ocean and so they wash their hands of it. By the way, it isn't even mentioned on their official website, so one arrives and is in for a surprise.The island on which the Lodge is located, which they advertise as deserted on their official website, is not deserted at all (the adjective desert in Italian means uninhabited, I don't know if it has the same meaning in French): on the opposite side there are three settlements, some of them are employees, but there are also other families.Furthermore, the island is full of plastic not only in the bush but also on the beach.I have been coming to Raja since 2009, I am currently in Raja for a year, I know the inconveniences of living in a "remote" place and all the problems. So I can say that this property is way overrated.