Diving with my kids for 2 weeks in Thailand - need some tips !

[Umuntu]

Hello everyone ! I'm looking at diving with my kids (16/13 & 10 years old) for the next 2 weeks in Thailand.

OP posted that on 5 June and hasn’t been seen since then !!!

Why are people still making suggestions?

 

[JonnieB]

Diving from Koh Yao Yai with Elixir Divers is very convenient and easy diving. The dive shop is very close to dive sites. Total 4 hours to make two dives trip by speedboat in small intimate groups 3-10 divers only. Well maintained equipment and European instructors.

Check www.elixirdivers.com

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I would see European [guides] as a bug not a feature.

 

[Centrals]

LOL.
Expat is "bug"!!!
Close non Thai operated diver shop eg. Rumblefish(Vietnamese owned).

 

[Umuntu]

LOL.
Expat is "bug"!!!
Close non Thai operated diver shop eg. Rumblefish(Vietnamese owned).

That’s a very superficial perspective which shows a lack of understanding of the diving in Thailand.

Local guides are almost all DMs, not instructors, and for the diving operators they are more economical. Usually great critter spotters, not so great at knowing what they are in your language.

Some Europeans were born and/or grew up there, speak Thai like a local, and that is “home” for them.

Others are instructors who speak one or more European languages, and either bring their own customers on a big boat, or serve the boat’s European customers who don’t speak English that well in their own language.

Still other Europeans are guys who have married a local and have settled there.

But I also know Korean instructors serving Korean customers and Chinese instructors serving Chinese speaking customers.

There’s always an interesting story behind why they are there.

I don’t encounter many Americans, probably lack of language ability outside of English.

 

[lexvil]

don’t encounter many Americans, probably lack of language ability outside of English.

You don’t have to go that far to find ‘murcans with poor language abilities, don’t even need a passport.

 

[Centrals]

That’s a very superficial perspective which shows a lack of understanding of the diving in Thailand.

Local guides are almost all DMs, not instructors, and for the diving operators they are more economical. Usually great critter spotters, not so great at knowing what they are in your language.

Some Europeans were born and/or grew up there, speak Thai like a local, and that is “home” for them.

Others are instructors who speak one or more European languages, and either bring their own customers on a big boat, or serve the boat’s European customers who don’t speak English that well in their own language.

Still other Europeans are guys who have married a local and have settled there.

But I also know Korean instructors serving Korean customers and Chinese instructors serving Chinese speaking customers.

There’s always an interesting story behind why they are there.

I don’t encounter many Americans, probably lack of language ability outside of English.

I assumed your reply is for someone(#12) who said "European guide is a bug".
And that cl@#$ claimed to be staying on Kata Beach.
You would had thought that this character who claimed to be associated with an operator in Phuket should know something about the practices of certain aspect in diving operation!

 

[Centrals]

@Umuntu
Did you not bother to read #12 to find out out who actually called European as bug?

 

[Umuntu]

@Umuntu
Did you not bother to read #12 to find out out who actually called European as bug?

Hey @Centrals

My apologies, my reply wasn’t directed at you personally. Rather it was at the idea of anyone calling them a “bug”. Just the flow of the thread. No hard feelings?