We have an upcoming boat trip in 2026 January to Raja Ampat north area (From Sorong). We would like to spend a week before this trip on KRi island.

Do you have any recommendations for dive base and accommodation? We would prefer relaxed diving with many photo/video options, so a good house reef is preferred.

Thanks in advance for the suggestions

Marcell

I was this year bei Tabari... forgot it... I can't recommended it. No house reef to dive.

It's depending of the budget but my experience was not really good ( the main problem was a group of 10 french divers, from Paris... they was ... no I'll say not more... ☹️🤮 )

If you want to read my report in french it is here Séjour plongées aux Raja Ampat et Lembeh du 23/02 au 18/03/2025 - Compte-rendus de voyages - Plongeur.com - Le site de la plongée sous marine

It's easy to translate.. If you have some question feel free to ask me in MP. You can write in german.
It's easier for me as english ;)

@Nikolausz

We spent 10 days at Sorido Bay (Cape Kri is a 5 min boat ride away...)

It's more expensive than most of the dive resorts in the region, but it was really (really) good (food, service, diving...)

The house reef is right off the dock. There were a number of turtles, a few black tip reef sharks, and several (large) cuttlefish that seem to fairly used to seeing divers (did not flee - just backed up and watched us).

Thanks for the input. We have narrowed down our selection to Yenkoranu, Warahnus and Turtle dive centre-homestays.

Has anybody experience with those?

2 hours ago, Nikolausz said:

Thanks for the input. We have narrowed down our selection to Yenkoranu, Warahnus and Turtle dive centre-homestays.

Has anybody experience with those?

No, but I had really good feedback from Tarzan Diving. The problem was I didn't find an available home stay when I organize our trip.

8 hours ago, Nikolausz said:

Thanks for the input. We have narrowed down our selection to Yenkoranu, Warahnus and Turtle dive centre-homestays.

Has anybody experience with those?

Yenkoranu, a lot - but last visit was in 2017 and things have changed radically, so I really can't vouch for them.

All i can say is that it was the first homestay with a somewhat reliable diving operation, with guides that were working on liveaboards (Jason for instance), and excellent, especially around 2015.
Started by the Sauyai family, traditional clanic "owners" of Kri / Mansuar Kecil.

Spent a lot of time there, "helping out" as well. Now it's really grown into something else, so you would need to look into recent reviews. I really don't know who's working there anymore, most of the guides I still know are working on boats on the Komodo-Raja routes.
At one point they had some individuals then foreign couples run the dive operation, really not sure how it is nowadays as it's a complicated working environment 😅

I'm sure you have already, but do check https://www.stayrajaampat.com


Yenkoranu homestay on an early 2015 morning - the treeline to the right started being cut with the 2016 homestay boom. Max Ammer's Papua Diving / Kri Eco Resort is further down on the left.

Edited yesterday at 12:52 AM1 day by bghazzal