Welcome to
Hippocampus Beach and Dive Resort
Resort
The resort is located directly on Malapascua's white Bounty beach and offers a family
style and relaxed atmosphere. Alltogether 18 rooms have been integrated into a natural
tropical garden with many coconut and various flowering trees, ferns and orchids.
Each room has a european style private bath and a large roofed verandah
with view of garden and partly sea. Furnishing is in colonial style and includes a spacious
double bed or alternatively two single beds.
The larger and more stylish superior rooms are equipped with airconditioning, hot shower and
fridge, these rooms may serve as triple room also. Four deluxe rooms, likewise with
airconditioning, hot shower and minibar are located very attractively on the beach with
undisturbed views of the turquoise blue sea.
A newly installed communal power net or our own noise proof generators supply electricity
around the clock, voltage is 220 volts and rooms have philippine and european power outlets.
Hippocampus uses its own small waterworks in the island interior which supplies
almost drinking water quality (not self-evident on Malapascua!).
WiFi internet access is available for guests without charge.
Dive Shop
A dive shop, operated by SeaQuest is very conveniently located underneath the restaurant
and offers everything a diver can think of. SeaQuest is one of the oldest and most experienced
dive operators in the country with sister shops in Moalboal/Cebu and Alona/Bohol. Tanks are silently filled
outside the resort using a powerful WF compressor and a Nitrox mixing unit. 15 complete and state of the art
Cressi Sub diving equipments are ready for rent. With his team of local diveguides and boatcrews Roland, manager
and instructor of the Dive Center, offers four boat trips every day, on demand also to parallel destinations.
All PADI courses up to divemaster level are available. Nitrox is standard and in addition to typical outrigger
boats also a fast speedboat is used in Malapascua, which makes most dive sites accessible within just minutes.
SeaQuest emphasizes on personal service and for example individually cares for photographers and non-photographers.
All dives are accompanied by experienced, mostly local guides, who know the specialities of Malapascua's underwater
world extremely well. Diving is generally in small groups of about four and regarding the superb dive sites around
the island (also see Diving page) exceptional experiences can be almost guaranteed.
Environmental and Nature Protection
Hippocampus plays an active role in a conservation project initiated in 2009, which aims at protecting
important dive sites and underwater sanctuaries by armed patrol boats. Since May 2010 daily patrol runs
are carried out and very encouraging results are already visible now. Hopefully illegal fishing activities can be completely
eliminated soon. A key success
element is also a better education of the local communities.
In several aviaries in the resort philippine birds are kept and bred, including the endangered nicobar
pidgeons (Hippocampus is also a registered wildlife farm).
