PHUKET
Boats fill and courses cap out, so the good scuba diving trips go weeks ahead. Below: the 15 to book early, what each includes, and how they differ.
Review of Phuket’s beginner scuba course to Racha Yai, with two guided sea sessions, meals, equipment, pickup, costs, tips, and honest drawbacks.
“Very good experience, had a very informative instructor and all the boat crew were friendly and welcoming”
Try two guided scuba sessions at Racha Yai from Phuket, with hotel pickup, meals, equipment, and patient instruction for beginners.
“We felt really safe throughout the whole experience (this was our first scuba dive!). Our guide was really calm and explained everything step by step! Can 100% recommend to book - and make sure you get the photo package too, these are priceless memories!! 💕🤿🪸”
Learn scuba basics in Phuket with pool training, a reef session, equipment, meals, hotel pickup, and patient certified instructors.
“The Scuba Diving for Beginners experience was out of this world. Being on my bucket list, it definitely lived up to my expectations. Thank you to the patience and great teacher, sky. I need to breath more - did not realise I was holding my breath. The fish life we saw was unbelievable, time just goes by so quickly when you are having fun.”
Explore Racha Islands from Phuket with three guided scuba sessions, meals, equipment, hotel pickup, and chances to spot leopard sharks.
“We had a fantastic time with scubadeep and our guide Brem. He took excellent care of us and we had so much fun scuba diving for the first time. I’d highly recommend booking with them!”
Try scuba diving in Phuket with a PADI instructor, three Racha Islands descents, full equipment, meals, and a small four-person group.
“I too my son on a discover scuba diving - we found the instructor, Franck to be wonderful – very clear, knowledgeable, patient, and extremely entertaining with his stories! My son and I were very appreciative of his skill, professionalism, focusRead more”
Compare Phuket scuba trips to Maiton and Racha Islands, with small groups, beginner-friendly instruction, marine life, costs, and practical tips.
“The entire trip was the best part.. the staff was extremely knowledgeable and took their time w each diver.. definitely a highlight of my Thailand experience…”
Review of Phuket’s Racha Yai snorkeling and scuba tour, with clear water, beach stops, lunch, pickup details, costs, and practical tips.
“It was nice overall but the boat was really crowded. Also, we spent a lot of time in a beach while I would have liked to do more snorkeling. Not great value for money imo”
Review of Phuket’s three-scuba-site day trip, with equipment, meals, transfers, guides, costs, timing, and practical booking advice.
“Great experience overall! Todd was an excellent instructor for our group! Highly recommend checking it out. the Diving was amazing!!”
Review of Phuket’s three-day SSI and PADI Open Water course, with pool training, five sea sessions, Racha islands, meals, and transfers.
“I had Olivier & Pommie as my instructor! Finished the course in 3 days! Absolutely amazing people and amazing experience. The dive sites are surreal. I recommend everyone to do this course.”
Review of Sea Bees’ Racha Yai scuba day trip from Phuket, with boat comfort, meals, guides, costs, logistics, and practical booking advice.
“Failed to respond for days about scheduling time for included pick up, and thus never arrived for pick up. (Although Viator support confirmed it the day before.) Eventually, late the night on the scheduled day of activity, they finally replied and blamed TripAdvisor for the Read more”
Review of Phuket’s G Beach Club scuba experience, with coral reef access, PADI instruction, equipment, GoPro footage, costs, and practical tips.
“Everything was amazing and we had a great first time experience, both instructors were very professional and friendly in nature”
Review of Aloha Diving’s Phuket scuba day trip, with small groups, flexible underwater time, lunch, costs, logistics, and booking advice.
“We had a fantastic experience diving with Aloha Diving. The whole trip was incredibly well organised – our gear was already prepped and waiting for us on the boat when we arrived, which made everything smooth and stress-free from thRead more”
Learn freediving in Phuket with pool training, Racha Yai sessions, equipment, meals, transfers, and a choice of four certifications.
“Really improved my freediving in some of the most beautiful water ever. Ruddy was an excellent teacher”
Review the 3-day Phuket SSI or PADI Open Water course, with pool training, five sea sessions, Racha Yai and Racha Noi.
“Oliver is a fantastic guide and so patient 🙏 he explained everything extremely well. The boat crew were fantastic and great food as well... The dive spots awesome and although I got very seasick still loved the diving once we arrived. I would highly recommend this course to anyone keen to learn this sport. The extra $2000 bart for videos and photos also a bonus!!!”
Review of a full-day Koh Phi Phi scuba trip from Phuket, with two 50-minute descents, gear, meals, transfers, and practical booking advice.
“Not much to see. Coral was dead because of water temperature last year they told us. No large fish. Visibility was very poor. A lot of 50 person boats all in the same area so very crowded. Crew was very helpful. Food was good. Traffic was bad so long drives to and from shop.”
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