Usually divers don't look much at accomodations only honeymooners and tourist looks for 5 star facilities. It won't be bad if one can do both but priorities always goes to dives.  After two or more dives a day, you will be so hungry and tired you can practically sleep anywhere even those live aboard dives. You won't even notice the sea sickness. Do you feel hungry after a dive? I do, all the time ,LOL. I dived in Koh Lipe before when the place was a fishing village, we seem to enjoy it too, it more of the dive experience even the corals were mostly dead. Best was the superman dive where we dive at a straits between two islands and current was strong. We jumped into the water at one end and the boat pick us up at the other end. No finning at all, just like superman, flow with the current. Visibility was good though.

Welcome aboard!! My personal view, I do care much on where I stay and with who I dived especially DC services towards customer. Normally I will choose my accomodation then DC as the 2nd criteria. Btw, most of diver that I know wouldnt care much about their bed

Haha. Guess my sinus not bad enough for me to feel the difference. Lol.

No la. I'm only at rescue. Putra tec diver edi leh! Nice! Hehe.
I still quite noon actually. Depend on my bf a lot. He doesn't let me dive without him.
Omg how can you not know. Haha. Laguna is quite famous for their wide range of buffet. Berjaya the buffet not that nice and went I went there to stay, it was damn expensive also. But high end hotel la, expected la. 
I went to pulau dayang last November and saw a baby whaleshark. It was very nice. But the weather and accommodation and the trip there was terrible. When I'm on the computer then only I share. Now using phone hard to type.

And yea. Usually dive motels are budget wan.

For me, Malaysia Dive Resort are far way behind international standard which turn me off to visit. Tourism Department should do something about this for example in term incentives and so on. In term of location for diving, I don't see much different if compared to Asean country but different is how they developed the places to international standard. When I dived with Aquamarine Diving Bali and also stay at Wakatobi Dive Resort, I speak to some of European diver which complaint of dive accommodation in Malaysia and tell me why they choose Indonesia and Thailand instead of Malaysia. Btw, some of them don't know where is Malaysia located

If you're looking for good accommodation, then you have to go to hotels which are at least 3 stars and above.

Most of the dive resorts I can tell you, the accommodation is horrible. Even in Redang, if you follow DC dive trips, most of the time it's the cheapest rooms and they will give you hotel like Redang Bay which is not up to my standards. Also, most of the time, you will be living in dorms.

When I went to Dayang last year, omg the room was horrible. It's a 12 person dorm room long house thingy with around 6 rooms. All made of wood. No aircond, only a wall fan. Electricity only comes from 6pm to 6am. Lightings is very limited, curtains have holes. Common toilet with no hot water. Some toilets filled with sand on the floor. Wet toilet (something I really cannot stand!). Food wasn't that nice, just basic to keep me from fainting. Didn't eat much cause not tasty. Oh and no towels, no blanket, no house keeping, not much place to hang things. The jetty was all wood as well, and I got a splinter caught at the base of my feet, damn painful.

Oh and the boat ride to the island was like sooooooo long and sooooo terrible. I think it was like at least 3-4 hours long on the way there. We left at midnight and reach the island around 3 or 4am and everyone was so sleepy still need to listen to briefing. Then while we were in Dayang, it was actually the starting of the monsoon season (November), on the last night, heavy rain and storm, very strong wind. Blew off some of the wooden house zinc roof tops. Some of the dorm rooms were leaking, lots of towels/bikini/rashguards hanging outside all blown away. The waves was scary. So on the next day when we went back, I think the boat ride was a whopping 5 hours or so. I don't know as I practically was next to the toilet bowl all the time vomiting all the way back. Ughh.

But the beach was not bad, dive was good. Saw whale shark which was awesome. The sea and scenery was wonderful. The visibility and underwater world is pretty good. Just the trip there and the accommodation is horrible.

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Added on April 6, 2011, 12:31 pm
This is true. But Sipadan and Mabul is different. They cater for foreigners more so their standard is higher.
Also, West Malaysia is one of the cheapest place to dive. I guess that's why the services aren't that good either.

@kelvin

Yeah, the price at Sipadan was expensive but still a level below other countries dive resort which offer at same price, but that was because Sipadan was so famous.