Thailand Liveaboards in October

MV Oktavia:

We have had two announcements from the Thailand National Parks department this week. Firstly, confirmation that marine park entrance fees will rise next season from 400 baht to 500 baht per foreigner.

Better news is that the the Similan and Surin marine national parks will be opening a couple of weeks early this year on 15 October.

So far two boats have added October dates to their schedules. they are Octavia and Deep Andaman Queen. More boats are sure to follow.

Free Nitrox on Pawara. And free WI-FI

Last season Pawara became the first boat to offer free WI-FI to it's guests, it's still one of the few boats that does.

This season it will also be offering free nitrox to certified divers.

If you are not nitrox certified you can do the PADI Nitrox specialty onboard.

Pawara is excellent value in the upper mid price range category. Cabins filled up fast last season.

To book please contact us

Peter Pan Liveaboard Feedback

Another happy diver :)

Hey Paul,

Our trip on the Peter Pan liveaboard was awesome!

We had a really amazing adventure, doubled the amount of dives we had done and got way more comfortable diving.

I loved Sandra, who was our dive master. I just hope her ear is ok.

Rut and all of the entire staff on the boat were just wonderfully fun and professional.

I absolutely will recommend Peter Pan to anyone I talk to and maybe we will do the South trip one day.

We saw some great stuff. The most fish I have ever seen in my life. Not much on the big side, but that's ok.

Thanks again for being in quick contact with me everytime I emailed you.

I have no complaints.

And the cook on board was also incredible. Not only did he serve delicious food every day, he was extremely accomodating to my girlfriend's 

dietary restrictions at every meal. He always made something special just for her.

Thanks again!

Courtney

Similan Islands Tents and Bungalows

Last week we went to the Similan Islands by invite of the National Park Rangers to help prepare Koh Miang (Similan Island number 4) camp site for the up coming high season. The images below should give you an idea of what the bungalows and camp site are like. There are 25 bungalows, 20 with air con ad 5 with just fan cooling. There are also 20 two person tents. The tents were all empty when we were there and the tourist speedboats weren't yet arriving. The island was pretty idyllic. But I'm not sure I'd want to stay there in high season when they camp site is full of about 90 guests plus staff. Personally I'd prefer to stay on a boat. The Similan accommodation is notoriously hard to book anyway, it fills up well in advance.