Weekend Open Water Courses

Learn to dive in the clear warm waters around Khao Lak, Thailand. Originally designed for our local GVI volunteers, this course is open to anyone who would like to learn to dive.

Long Weekend

Friday/Saturday/Sunday

Local or Similans

choose where you dive on the Sunday

All of our courses start with and self study at home before arrival. Our Instructors have years of experience and will make sure that your course is safe, fun and thorough.

You will get your own copy of the online training materials and have use of all equipment that you will need to complete the course. We include a dive computer on all training dives. Once you have completed all the performance requirements you will receive certification as a PADI Open Water Diver. You will then be able to dive safely to a maximum depth of 18 metres. All of our Open Water Courses include an extra fun-dive at the end, with photos of your experience when safe to do so.

Long Weekend

This is a 3-day course with e-learning that you complete at your home before arrival. On Friday we will be in the pool learning all the skills that you need. On Saturday you will be practicing skills in our local fresh water lake, which is perfect for learning. The Sunday will be completing your course either at local dive sites, or you can upgrade to the amazing Similan Islands for an extra 5000 THB.

We include a bonus fun dive with photos of your experience where this is safe to do so.

Prices

Local Dives

14,700 thb

Includes 5 dives

3 days with E-learning

Local and Similans

19,700 thb

includes 5 dives

3 days with E-learning

Great experience with Gary

My partner Jun and I just completed our open water dive certificate with Gary. We started in the deep pool and Gary was so reassuring with us. Gary was extremely supportive and encouraging, making it possible for Jun to gain the confidence on the full mask off task and move on to to the open ocean.
The pool facility he uses is so perfect - probably as good as you will find anywhere in the world . Unfortunately the day we went to the open sea it was a fairly high swell and very murky as we booked in for the last week before the season closed. He did warn us when we booked for the date.
Gary is very professional and brought two of his young workers to also go down with us . We had to follow an anchor rope down but we both felt extremely safe and in good hands at all times . Gary didn’t take any short cuts because of the conditions - we still had to do everything. We feel we had the best experience we could get and thank Gary and his wife Ann very much for organising a great training experience.
At the end of our trip Ann taught us about how to find the right mask and we just happened to find one to perfectly fit Jun. The retail shop they operate also has a very good variety of diving essentials and accessories. We definitely recommend Go2Similan and will go back one day to Similan islands with Gary.

Jun Nova / TripAdvisor

PADI Open Water with Gary

Me and my wife spend 4 days with Gary for the Open Water certification.

He was calm and caring. Focus on safety and making sure we understood everything. Made sure we had a good time and got the skills required at the same time

I would highly recommend everyone to dive with them.
We will come back to Gary and his lovely wife

Tomas & Adele

Tomas L / TripAdvisor

Perfect first diving experiences

Thanks to Gary I was able to finally fulfil my dream of becoming a certified Padi diver.
Even during the busy time around Easter he managed to arrange for my diving classes and he was a perfect diving instructor.
He was really patient and friendly.
I also really enjoyed our trip to the Similan Islands and to Boonsung Wreck!!
Thank you Gary for these amazing experiences!!

Carina Z / TripAdvisor

Open Water Course

My partner and I spent a week in Khao Lak and decided to take the open water certificate.
Gary from Go2Similan was a fantastic mentor and helped us throughout our training which started a couple a weeks before we actually landed in Thailand!
For our final dive, we went to the Similan islands which is definitely worth the extra £s.

Sebastian P / Tripadvisor