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Cost of diving in the Pacific?

Started Jan 29, 2020 | Discussions thread
Architeuthis Regular Member • Posts: 491
Re: Cost of diving in the Pacific?

Hi Craig,

We have been to the Philippines (Cabilao and Malapascua). It was 2300 Euro for 17 days including flight from Austria and 14 diving days, but is was long ago (2006). I heard Cabilao is still good, but Malapascua is overrun, due to the threshersharks.

Bali is also a location, where diving holidays are within budget, depending on the resort.

We often go to Egypt (of course not the Pacific, but the species richness and quality of coral is better even than Caribbean) and 1 week resort diving plus 1 week liveaboard including flight and AI is around 1800 Euros. Just in case you never have been there...

On February 21st we will take off for Raja Ampat for the first time and make a 11 day(10 night cruise with the MY Akomo Issekii that with 2300 $ is not overpriced for this region: https://www.liveaboard.com/diving/indonesia/akomo-isseki

Before the crusade we will stay in a "homestay", run by local people, that is also moderately priced (Some resorts in this area charge astronomical prices). In case you are interested I can report how it was, but this will not be before the middle of March...

Wolfgang

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