Manado for less

Book by the end of this month (January) and you'll pay the reduced price of £1205 for available departure dates throughout 2010. This includes flights from London, transfers, and seven nights' B&B at the Kima Bajo Resort Spa Hotel, which is set within a coconut plantation, with accommodation in individual air-conditioned villas, and a sea-view outdoor restaurant. Dive pack prices with Eco Divers Kima Bajo start at £248 for eight dives.

Manado lies at the northern tip of Sulawesi, and boasts some of the finest diving in South East Asia.

Divers can expect to experience everything from the smallest pygmy seahorses and nudibranchs, to eagle rays, sharks and pilot whales in "an idyllic, tranquil diving destination with an outstanding and celebrated bio-diversity".

*  www.regaldive.co.uk