Phuket has a lot to offer for visitors and one of the most popular activities on Phuket for the tourists is to go scuba diving. Phuket is the biggest dive destination in South East Asia.

How come that Phuket has almost no Diving Resorts?

Phuket Diving Resorts

To answer the question why Phuket has almost no diving resorts or hotels catering exclusively for divers you need to look at places where there are many resorts for divers and where there are many dive sites for scuba diving and you need to look at the start and development of a tourist destination.

Places with lots of accommodation for divers

Diving resorts, dive hostels, diving colleges and similar names –  are often places where the tourism only started because of the scuba diving. That means first came the divers and found that it was worth to start a dive centre, a dive school or diving company and with the visitors coming the diving guests needed an accommodation.  Such  typical places are Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, Layang Layang in Malaysia and many islands in the Maldives.

Then there are places in the world where the backpackers where the first visitors and the places developed and gbecame big tourist destinations like Phuket.

There are many places of course where the development was in between a pure diving destination and a backpackers heaven. A village or city or population did exist and tourists discovered the place and scuba diving came along with the tourism development like Bali in Indonesia, Koh Samui in Thailand, Tioman island in Malaysia – just to mention a few.

The great thing about Phuket and not having pure diving resorts is that there are so many other things to see and do on Phuket. Especially if the weather is not really suitable for scuba diving. The good thing is too – divers can come and dive and those in the family or friends not diving have plenty of other activities to choose from for entertainment.

Diving Resorts Phuket

Merlin Divers scuba diving center & school is located on the west coast of Phuket and offers all diving activities for divers and non-dives like dive courses, diving tours and trips from half-day to full day trip with all the dive sites around Phuket, overnight and liveaboard diving to the Phi Phi and Similan islands and more. The dive facility is also a big dive store, dive shop for getting any thing you need for scuba diving, dive gear and equipment or snorkelling mask and fins, or practical things for a beach holiday.

You need  “Phuket & Diving & Resort” near Merlin Divers dive company – check into any hotel near by and call it your dive resort!