This all-inclusive, private-island dive resort off the southeastern tip of Sulawesi, Indonesia, offers diving every way imaginable. However, it's quite a haul to get here. All guests must fly into Bali and spend at least one night there before flying into the resort's private airstrip on a charter flight.

Once at the resort, guests choose from one of 26 lodging options, which are split into four price points. The most expensive and luxurious are the four waterfront villas, with high,

This all-inclusive, private-island dive resort off the southeastern tip of Sulawesi, Indonesia, offers diving every way imaginable. However, it's quite a haul to get here. All guests must fly into Bali and spend at least one night there before flying into the resort's private airstrip on a charter flight.

Once at the resort, guests choose from one of 26 lodging options, which are split into four price points. The most expensive and luxurious are the four waterfront villas, with high, loft-style ceilings, four-poster beds, and dark tropical-wood décor. The remaining 22 bungalows are tiered into "select," "standard," and "garden" options. All rooms have king or twin beds, air-conditioning, and Internet access.

The property has an open-air dining area where guests meet for meals, a kids' club, and a boutique store, and there's a spa with a full-range of massages and beauty treatments.

But true to its dive-resort status, most of the resort's energy is focused on the undersea action. The on-site dive center has rental gear, a nitrox fill station, a dedicated camera room, and dive-training facilities offering everything from introductory dives to technical diving.

Just a few yards offshore, the resort's house reef runs parallel to the island's coastline, stretching for more than three miles. Guests can make unlimited dives on the house reef. It's accessible either by walking off the beach or dock, or divers can use the resort's "taxi boats" throughout the day, which will drop them anywhere along the house reef and pick them up again after the dive is over.

Wakatobi also runs three daily boat dives to any of the more than 40 dive sites in the surrounding Tukang Besi/Wakatobi Archipelago. These dive sites are best known for their macro life—small, strange critters camouflaged in the reef—and underwater photographers should enjoy hunting this quarry. It's worth noting that there are very few large marine animals in this area, so if you're looking for sharks and big schools of fish, consider a different destination.

In addition to the comprehensive dive possibilities available from the resort, Wakatobi also operates its own 115-foot live-aboard yacht, the Pelagian, offering seven-, ten-, and eleven-night itineraries to a variety of Indonesia's far-flung diving regions.