Swim in the morning is allowed from 8am. They will not be allowed before, do not try. However, in the evening you can not go to the pier until 19:00. Per day made 3 floods of 1.5 hours
I'm lucky. The first 4 days were full calm. Although everyone write that the hotel is mostly wind and waves. 5th day small waves. 6 and 7 days black flag. And for 6 days and up to 10 o'clock in the morning of the seventh day it was possible to swim with the black flag. Then the pier was closed.
In the early days she fused to the island to the north. When a calm against the current is easy to swim. Time to the island and 40 min (very slowly) back to the hotel. At a calm, south to the next hotel swim for 30 minutes, back against the current for 40 minutes. Pisces a lot. One day floated in a cloud of different fish along the whole reef, thousands of fish. It is nice, but there is no admiration for the reef. Wingers, ballistodes, bodys, unicorns, alutles, butterflies, etc. enough.
From the essential.
Orlyak - 2 times, turtle - 1 time, mourna - 5 times (you can swim with it for a long time), barracks (huge, more than a meter, thick) - 3 times, blue -eyed slope - in other places full, and here only 2 times, electrical slope (large as an eagle) - once.
Much has been written about the hotel. Wai is bad. Normal, good food, staff are friendly. Very little green in the territory. The hotel is not 4 stars at all, but I was indifferent because I was going behind the sea. Go 40-50 min to the airport. Late arrival - dinner in the room. When leaving, you need to release the number at 12:00. If later, the surcharge is $ 20. But at the same time the bracelet is left and you can use the restaurant and bar. When leaving, she sat in the forehead from 12 to 16, sofas/chairs are comfortable, you can even sleep waiting for the transfer.
Holidays - mostly Russians, which was strange because she read the reviews that there were no Russians. The first 4 days were a lot of people, even the beds were all busy.
Then many left, but still the Russians.