Ko Tao

Alvaro Diving Koh Tao

Alvaro Diving Courses Koh Tao

Small family-run dive and freedive shop with new equipment, flexible boat schedules and friendly multilingual staff. Teach PADI & SSI diving and SSI freediving courses in small groups in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.

Daily, 09:00-18:00

Chalok Reef Divers

SSI dive centre offering beginner courses, advanced training, fun diving and small-group trips around Ko Tao. English-speaking instructors and courses available for both new and experienced divers.

Daily 08:00–17:00

Davy Jones Locker

PADI open water courses, divemaster internships and PADI instructor training, and MCA boat handling courses in their RIB. Accommodation and gear packages are available for all courses.

Daily, 08:30-20:00

Parawan's Thai Home Cooking Classes

Parawan offers Thai cooking classes at her home on Koh Tao and online.

9AM-5PM·1500THB

ACE Marine Images

All dives and training are offered in small groups with a maximum of 2 divers per 1 staff or private tuition. Specializing in diving for photographers and film makers or those wishing to have a private diving experience. Expeditions are offered on private luxury speedboat or custom-built dive boat and dive schedules change daily to avoid the crowds. Day trips to Ang Thong Marine Park are also available. HQ in Sairee Beach. Dive courses are offered from beginner to professional.

09:00-18:00 daily

Apnea Total

Ko Tao's first and longest established freediving school. Apnea Total profits from experienced teachers and a private boat for a safe and successful learning experience.

Asia Divers Resort

5-star Gold PADI Instructor Development Centre offers a full range of diving courses, including divemaster internships. Multiple languages. The resort's bar is always a nice place to chill out after diving.

Ban's Diving Resort

PADI open water courses up to professional PADI Instructor courses. A full range of technical diving courses.

Big Blue Diving Resort

PADI dive resort with beach side bar and restaurant, lodging with more than 50 rooms. Offers all courses from beginner to instructor, all technical diving. Also offers eco-internships. Winner of PADI's Project Aware Environmental Achievement Award. One of the longest established dive centres on Ko Tao.

Big Bubble Dive Resort

One of the long-established dive centres on Ko Tao. Relaxed, fun diving. Scuba diving lessons from beginner to PADI divemaster training with a well trained, professional staff. Also in Chalok Baan Kao.

Closed · opens 8:30 am

Black Tip Diving & Water Sports

Wake boarding, tube rides, shark snorkelling trips, cliff jumping, round the island trips, hiking, kayaking.

Blue Immersion Freediving

Freedive off Sairee Beach by longtail boat with accomplished instructor Akim. AIDA and SSI courses available.

Bowling and mini golf

The bowling is "manual". There is a guy at the end of the alley that sets up your pins for you after each bowl and returns the ball down to you.

Buddha View IDC Dive Resort

PADI 5-star IDC gold palm resort with friendly staff, good facilities and a BBQ and beach bar to relax in the evenings. Dive instructor courses and professional training programmes with a divemaster.

Calypso Diving Koh Tao

Dive training (hands on, no video teaching) from beginner to pro following CMAS and PADI standards in small groups. Located in quiet and party-free bay with a house reef in front of the premises.

Carabao Diving Center & Resort

A good diving centre on a quiet beach. The staff is gracious and helpful. Good accommodation available.

Coral Grand Divers Resort

Hotel is more up-market and better suited for families. Operates 2 dive boats plus a speed boat.

Crystal Dive Resort

PADI scuba diving resort. All PADI dive courses, scuba internships and pro level divemaster and instructor courses. Free accommodation.

Dive Career Internships

Divemaster and dive instructor internships, underwater videographer training, and resort management courses with experienced PADI course instructors.

Dive Point

PADI 5-star dive shop run by an Austrian. Offering diving classes in German, French, Italian, and English. Small groups and individual care for students special needs.

Go Pro Diving

Concentrates on PADI Go Pro courses on Ko Tao. PADI divemaster course, IDC course, IDC staff instructor course and master instructor training with full dive internship programs are available.

Good Idea Massage

Thai massage, oil massage, foot massage, body scrub, reflexology massage. Also waxing hair removal treatments from the face and body – for women and men.

Good Time Adventures, Diving, Beach Cafe and Bar

South Sairee Beach. Small group Scuba Diving courses with flexible schedules. The only shop on Ko Tao with a weekly trip to Sail Rock. A wide range of adventure activities including: rock climbing instruction up to lead climbing and a guiding service, abseiling/rappelling, cliff jumping, snorkelling, wake boarding, boat cruises. Beach Cafe and Bar serves a tasty variety of Western, Thai and Burmese dishes on the beach.

Impian Divers 5 Star Dive Center

Groups limited to 4 divers per pro dive leader. Courses in 5 languages. European-owned/managed with strong safety record/procedures, but still easy going. Differ from most dive centres because of the daily different locations for the dive trips, long dive times. and non-early morning departures. 12 years of experience diving around Ko Tao.

Island Cruises

Day and sunset cruises, private charters, Ang Thong National Marine Park safaris and fully customised crewed charters.

Island Dive Club

Does good deals on course and accommodation packages. The Thai staff can be annoying, so deal with the foreigners, they really make the effort. The dive shop is not that busy, meaning you might get an instructor for yourself or be taught in a small group.

Koh Exist

A marine conservation school providing information on marine ecology, corals, fish and how to rescue corals by attaching them to artificial structures.

Koh Tao PROvideo

A videography company. Run by experienced underwater videographers and instructors who film and teach every day. Each course is tailor made.

Master Divers

A small professional dive PADI 5 Star IDC. They guarantee small groups and offer private tuition and private guiding too. They have an experienced team and time their boat trips to go to dive sites when they are quietest too. They take their diving and environment seriously. They provide free water refills to minimise plastic bottle waste. They re-cycle and provide re-usable containers for take-away food to minimize polystyrene waste.

Mojo Divers Koh Tao

Friendly dive shop in the heart of Sairee Beach in small groups, fun and friendly atmosphere, from beginners to professional level. Bi-weekly trips to Sail Rock.

Daily, 09:00-19:00