Similan Liveaboard 3 days / 2 nights (Similans Koh Bon, Koh Tachai & Richelieu Rock 11 DIVES)
Similan Liveaboard Diving? If you have never been on a Liveaboard diving boat they are certainly the best way to dive the Similan Islands, and we urge you to take at minimum a Similan Liveaboard 3 days / 2 nights. The liveaboard lifestyle has many attractions and many downsides. Most boats are mobile and provide inexpensive water access. A liveaboard lifestyle is becoming more popular with scuba divers around the world and is generally regarded as being a cheaper way to visit remote dive sites.
Liveaboard boats can often be luxury vessels and the attraction of the lifestyle while onboard often suits everyone.
This trip is suitable for experienced open water or advanced certified dives, depths can be between 18m – 30m with 11 dives around Simians – If you want to travel further north to the advanced dive sites then click here to visit Similans Richelieu Rock – Koh Tachai or Koh Bon.
If you are open water and want to dive the best sites then you may need to consider the SSI International advanced Adventure course in the similans on this trip for 6,000THB with Free e learning and digital certification
Similans: The best chances to see Whale Sharks in Thailand.
You may find that liveaboards have customers coming from many different backgrounds. Liveaboard in Thailand offers scuba divers cabins to sleep in while they stay on board for one or more nights, unlike a day boat operation.
This allows time to travel to more distant dive sites relax in between dives and you save more of your time in general.
Experienced Certified Open Water Divers can dive any of the Similan Islands Diving days.
Advanced Certified divers can access Similan Islands as well as Richelieu Rock, Koh Bon, Koh Tachai.
Similan – Richelieu Rock trip, customer should start on Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday or Sunday.
Schedule 1 departures: Tuesdays and Saturdays
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
Similan | Similan – Koh Bon | Surin – Richelieu | Similan | Similan | Similan – Koh Bon | Surin – Richelieu |
Schedule 2 departures: Wednesdays and Sundays
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
Surin – Richelieu | Similan | Koh Bon – Tachai | Surin – Richelieu | Similan | Similan | Koh Bon – Tachai |
The prices quoted are per guest and include:
- Transfer from your hotel (Kata, Karon, Patong only) to the liveaboard boat and back.
- All meals, fruits, drinking water, coffee, tea, soft drinks,
- Professional dive guide, tanks and weights.
- Insurance (500,000 Baht maximum)
- Private dive Guide minimum booking 2 divers = 3 days x 2000 Daily Rate
- Torches for night dives, no charge.
Extra charge items to be pre-ordered
- 15-liter tanks available for 300 Baht per day.per day
- 200 Baht/day for a dive computer per day
- Nitrox is not blended on the boat, but if you want to use Nitrox you can order in advance, a price of 350 Baht per 12-liter fill. Tanks have to be carried to the boat from the mainland by speedboat.
- PADI Advanced Open Water course is 8,500 Baht. PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) course is 8,500 Baht.
Similan Liveaboard 3 days / 2 nights (11 DIVES)
1ST DAY
06.00 am Pick up from hotel transfers by Mini Van
08.30 am Arrival at Taplamu pier (tea, coffee served)
08.45 am Departure from Taplamu pier to Similan island by speed boat
10.10 am Arrival in Similan island and Join up with the liveaboard boat
10.45 am First dive (1)
12.00 am Lunch served on board
13.15 pm Second dive (2)
16.00 pm Third dive (3
18.30 pm Night dive (4)
19.30 pm Dinner on board
2ND DAY
07.30 am First dive before breakfast (5) Richelieu Rock
08.30 am Breakfast on board
11.00 am Second dive (6) Richelieu Rock
12.00 am Lunch served on board
13.15 pm Third dive (7) Koh Tachai
18.30 pm Fourth dive (8) Koh Bon
19.30 pm Dinner on board
3RD DAY
07.30 am First dive before breakfast (9)
08.30 am Breakfast on board
11.00 am Second dive (10)
12.00 am Lunch served on board
13.15 pm Third dive (11)
15.00 pm Return by speed boat and depart from Similan island
16.30 pm Arrival at Taplamu pier and transfers by Mini Van
19.30 pm Arrival at your hotel
Similan Islands Diving
The Similans will be open from Late October 2018 to May 5th 2019 you may want to consider taking the private guide with one of our Instructor staff guides if you are booking 2 or more persons as opposed to you joining a mixed group of 5 to 6 divers to 1 divemaster. Group diving dive time is substantially reduced from a maximum of 50 minutes down to the first person in the group who is low on air determining the end of the dive for everyone in that group this means shorter diver times and unhappy divers
We would like to inform you that December 2022 – May 2023 is a peak season. If you reserve the booking for Similan Liveaboard with us and then you need to cancel the trip, We will charge 30% of the full Similan Liveaboard trip prices if given 1 month’s Notice.
Please ensure we are able to deliver this trip on the date you have requested – we do not offer a 24-hour call center or booking service – we are unable to process last-moment bookings in the middle of the night via email. If your trip is less than 1 month away we need the following information asap
The number of divers to the island has now been capped at 525 – Visitors who wish to visit have to purchase a ticket to enter the national park … we do this for you – this ticket is not transferable, meaning your trip is not transferable and cannot be rescheduled under any circumstances.
Please read the Diving Medical Form If you reply “YES” to one or more questions, we will need a written medical clearance that you are allowed to scuba dive signed by a certified Doctor.
We strongly recommend you to read the flying after diving article on our website, as you will have to wait at least 24 hours before you can board a plane.
This is a recreational diving trip. You must be licenced and certified to scuba dive.
- Open-water certified divers 18m limits.
- Advanced open water divers 30m limits.
- Deep diver training certification max 40m
No technical or decompression diving is allowed.
We would advise that if you have not dived in such a long period of inactivity (6 months) you take a refresher as identified by your license provider under Safe Diving Practices prior to taking this trip. This must be completed before the trip.
Refreshers on the boat are not available..unless pre-booked with a minimum of 2 in your group price is 2000 thb Per diver..Refreshers are available at our Scuba Diving Training Resort located at kata Beach. – You have the option of a free pool dive to try out the gear if you wish.
When you make the payment you will be required to some personal details about yourself and your group
- Full names of each diver / Boat passenger/student diver in your booking
- Date of Birth Day Month Year
- Nationality
- Passport number for each person Date of Birth (Day Month Year) of each person
- Dive card details/certification level
- Dive card numbers
- Last dive date of each diver
- Number of logged dives
- Do you have your logbook?
- Do you own a dive computer?
Additional information we need
- Equipment sizes (Body weight In Kg and shoe sizes)
- Hotel details, the full name, and address of your hotel
Please also advise if you have any Dietary restrictions.
Avoiding the pitfalls of booking a diving day trip or diving Liveaboard in Phuket.
Similan Liveaboards can often be sold by external 3rd party travel agents and Tour Desks that are not Licenced diving centers or people who sit at home on a laptop and don’t employ diving staff, these tour operators may not even be based in Thailand and often work alone.
It’s easy to find diving agents as they will advertise their products using Google AdWords when looking for Thailand liveaboard or Thailand Liveaboards, Viator Padi travel you need to investigate who you will actually dive with and is the website you are buying from a legitimate diving store, actually a Physical registered dive shop that has well-trained staff to take care of you, doing your homework now and looking at the background of the company.
If you have any questions regarding the Similan Liveaboard 3 days / 2 nights package just send us a short message and a member of staff will get back to you. Contact Us