Dining & facilities
Meals are served in the open-air oceanfront restaurant: Malaysian and international dishes with fresh fish and seafood. Evening drinks are at the Coral Bar or the Gekko Lounge Bar.
Celebes Sea · Sabah · Borneo
Mataking Reef Resort
Accommodation
Find your place to stay
The resort has 5 Waterfront Beach Villas, 8 Beach Chalets, 8 Executive King Chalets, 12 Premier Deluxe Rooms, 12 Deluxe Rooms and 14 new Water Villas. Ask for Water Villa details, current availability, bed arrangements and rates when you enquire.
The island
Mataking is a private island off the coast of Semporna in Sabah. Away from the crowd, the resort brings together a pale shoreline, timber villas and chalets, an open-air oceanfront restaurant, Jamu Spa and a PADI 5 Star dive centre on the surrounding reef.
Scuba Diving
A different world,
just beneath.
The resort’s PADI 5 Star Dive Centre takes divers to more than 30 sites around Mataking and its neighbouring islands, where large pelagics and macro marine life can share a single dive. Sipadan diving and snorkelling can be arranged.
Diving at Sipadan requires Advanced Open Water or an equivalent certification. The Sipadan permit must be requested well in advance.
Diving at Mataking and Sipadan ↗Time on the island
Spa
Jamu Spa & Jacuzzi offers treatments designed as restorative pampering, in a setting made for quiet.
Celebrations
Weddings, honeymoons and anniversaries, from private beach picnics and candle-lit dinners to an underwater wedding ceremony.
Getting here
Fly to Tawau, continue by road to the Semporna jetty in about 1 hour 20 minutes, then take the speedboat to the island in about 40 minutes.
Ask for current services and arrangements when you enquire.