A fabulous dive holiday!! Friendly, attentive staff: everyone knew my name from day 1, which is especially important for a solo traveller. It’s a beautiful resort, with comfortable accommodations, with everything you need. The dive centre is well-equipped. The dive staff are friendly, professional and helpful. The diving was magnificent. A photographers Mecca! The boat crew and guides so helpful and knowledgable. The grounds were immaculate, the pool sparkling. Meals were delicious, beautifully presented and served. I loved the communal seating and made many new friends during my stay. It happened to be my birthday while I was there - it was an amazing all-day celebration, including my room being decorated, and culminating with an amazing birthday cake at dinner.
I really hope to return one day soon. I highly, highly recommend Magic Oceans Resort.

Band of Bubbles dive group Philippines 2024!
See my review on their sister resort Magic Islands!
This was absolutely the BEST vacation we've EVER BEEN ON!
The logistics moving our group of 22 around to and from Magic Island and then getting us over to Magic Oceans was a seamless work of art! It even involved a couple relaxing ferry rides in "first class!"
But the resort is just astonishing! The staff is overwhelmingly efficient and helpful. The dive boats were very spacious and comfortable.
And the diving ..... WOW! The coral gardens were just indescribably gorgeous! Was so mesmerizing being carried along by the gentle current watching thousands of fish swarming around the brightly-colored coral of every imaginable color!! And turtles! They were EVERYWHERE!
Highlight of the week was our morning trip to dive with the whale sharks. It was a quick 1 hour van ride to this magical place (I can use the word "magical" fifty times describing this vacation!) was pleasant. When we got there the Magic Oceans staff were ALL OVER IT! All of our equipment was brought in another van and was ready on the shore. After a quick briefing we waded into the waves and were helped into our gear and off we went. Just incredible drifting alongside these beautiful, enormous creatures! A memory our group will ALWAYS have!
Knowing we would be depresses as our two-week journey came to a close, they threw a going away party, complete with a live band!
There literally are not enough words to describe this amazing experience.
If you're a scuba diver: you MUST dive the Philippines. If you dive the Philippines, you MUST stay at the Magic Resorts - Magic Island and Magic Oceans. Period.
The only negative about this trip was that they've now ruined my diving for the rest of my life! LOL! Nothing can ever compare to this diving...

We arrived, having had a week on sister resort Magic Island. At Magic Ocean all the guests were from Netherlands and several were big groups from dive clubs. All the dining tables were long and communal. Not surprisingly they were all engaged at dinner speaking to each other in Dutch so we sat at the end of a long table but didn't really speak to them. It would have made sense for staff to make separate tables for 2 right away for people who didn't speak Dutch. They did this eventually but it was a slow response.
We had booked for breakfast which was excellent, as well as dinner and I wish we had opted for breakfast only and just paid for a la carte from their menu, which has pages of great Philippino food on it, because dinner was definitely catering to a palette that likes bland, familiar food. There is plenty of it but it often arrived tepid. We asked about getting local food at dinner and eventually they brought us great dishes like Becol Express and Sisek but we went through some real communication issues to get it so I didn't feel well fed at all for the first half of our week there. The bar and accommodation is lovely and the dive staff are great. On the boats you are given generous amounts of fruit such as watermelon during the break. One thing I was surprised by was that some divers threw the skins in the sea. It takes 2 minutes on the internet to see that even fruit skins can harm marine life and disrupt the ecosystem. Why as a diver you would want to do that I don't know. We asked the dive centre to include this in the briefing and that bins are provided, but they did not. The diving was great, it is all macro apart from the many turtles and the coral is in the best shape I've seen anywhere. One final thing I would say is check your bill thoroughly. We were charged for almost $180 dollars worth of Nitrox which we had already paid for in Magic Island resort but it is easy for a guest to miss that kind of thing on the bill. Remember that you're paying a 5% credit card surcharge so any overcharging will include 5%.