Sea Gypsy Village Resort & Dive Base

Sea Gypsy Village Resort & Dive Base is a family-run resort on 5 acres of the north-east coast of Pulau Sibu, with 350 m of sandy beach facing Pulau Tinggi. Rimba Resort is about 750 m away.

Its 28 rooms are all sea-view chalets: Malay chalets with a king bed, two-room family chalets and budget A-frames. Meals are full board only, with Malay, Indian, Chinese and Western cooking; the resort describes its kitchen as halal, and there is also a bar. On the resort’s price page, Malay chalets are RM400 per person per night, two sharing, and A-frames RM250, plus service and SST. A supervised kids’ club runs in the evenings, and Dan’s Nasty Frogmen, an accredited PADI dive centre, runs Discover Scuba on an artificial reef off the beach. A shared van leaves Holland Village MRT in Singapore daily, RM165 per person each way. Guest reviews often praise the kids’ club, the food and the long-serving staff.

The catch is comfort, extras and season. There is no air-con, by policy, and no water heaters, and the resort has no Wi-Fi. Reviews often mention drink prices and sandflies. Cancelling with less than 7 full days’ notice costs two nights, and check-out is at 11 am. The resort publishes no monsoon dates, so ask before booking from November to February.