Suggestions for October 17-25, 2015?

[stevenl]

The liveaboard doesn't limit my diving while I'm on it. Rather, for an eight night/nine day trip the liveaboard will not fill the entire trip. Depending on how the transfers/timing work out, I could lose a day of diving in the middle. Then, when the liveaboard is finished, I end up shore diving. Thailand doesn't have any (that I know of...) dive resorts where you can get four to five dives a day. So my nine days is now five days on a liveaboard, with three days of two dives per day based on most schedules. That's the issue I'm having with the liveaboard.

Having done a resort trip to Lembeh, I'm not bothered by that. Having learned what I've learned from this conversation and some others, I think I'll save the Similans for the better weather season, since I'm living here and know that I can come back at some point in the future.

As for Losin, sounds interesting. Thanks for the link. Could I make a full trip out of Losin?

Thanks everybody for the discussion. I am very appreciative!

Lowell

So for liveaboard: depart on your arrival day, next 43 days 4 dives per day, on day of return 2 more dives.
Following day start daytrips, quite often here 3 dives per day.

That really is maximizing your divetime, unless you decide to do 2 liveaboards back to back

 

[huskychemist]

Thanks everybody for the feedback. I've decided to hit Bali for October to avoid the possibility of poor weather/conditions at the start of the season for the Similans. Given that I live here, I'll just hit them in the winter/spring some other year.