I just went to Tioman in Febuary. but i drive there from JB, 1 hour drive to Mersing. The ferry ride is really long. So be prepared if you gonna take ferry there. There are 4 stops. I stay in Sallang (last stop). quite a nice place. The chalet is clean and near to beach.
price also reasonable, RM180 for triple sharing. Seafood is good. price wise around RM150 for BBQ dinner. 3 person, but we wallop a lot.

A bit of tips for you. Please bring a lot Mosquito repellent, Me and my friend kena sand fly gigit like mad. they are like mosquito, but they come in swamp (yes, swamp means like 30-40). We kena at least 100+ bites. 1st 1st didnt notice much as the sun burn is very painful, so didn't feel the itchyness. after 1 week when your sunburn get well. The sand fly bites will itchy like mad. SERIOUS. At a moment i was thinking will i die because of this?

3 things to bring and its a MUST.

1.Mosquito repellent spray. (please bring a good one)
2.Sun Block (invest a bit, me and my friends did put on sun block but tak good enough, still kena sun burn)
3. Aloevera gell (when u kena sunburn, you will need this badly).

not really 3 big eater actually. i go with 2 amoi. hahaha. not ask u bring shieldtox la. ask u bring those mosquito repellent spray. those water prove ones.
There is a town where the airport located. pretty run down town if u ask me. I would advice u to stay in Sallang. The water near the town is pretty bad. U wont see much stuff unless u swim out.
Sallang at the Jeti it self u can see many nice fishes. And the water is in much better shape. Picture from my friend FB who is a diver that went with me. too bad I am not a diver, so i bring another amoi snokerling only.



This post has been edited by Lester1987: Jun 5 2013, 07:48 PM

not sure about kampung juara. didnt go there because the people say tide is very strong. In fact even those waters in the west coast is very strong when I go there.
went out swimming also will feel dizzy and need to swim 2-3x harder coz the current keep pulling us away. the other amoi I bring didnt know how to swim.
I also feel dam scared to go down the sea with her. I went to Redang as well around May 2011. I would say the current in Tioman is 5x stronger than Redang.
1 of the reason is because Tioman is far away from the mainland. Redang is just 30mins - 1 hour speed boat ride. Tioman is almost 2 hours high speed ferry ride. a lot further compare to Redang.