Thailand Guide
Southern Thailand: the Andaman coast
Diving off Ko Phi Phi
Offering visibility touching 30m, a great diversity of healthy hard and soft corals, and potential encounters with white-tip sharks, moray eels and stingrays, the diving around Ko Phi Phi is the best in the Krabi area. Highlights include the gorgonian sea fans, barracudas, manta rays and even whale sharks at Ko Bidah Nok and Ko Bidah Nai, the mass of leopards sharks at Hin Bidah, and the King Cruiser wreck.
There are at least twenty dive centres on Phi Phi, the majority of them in Ton Sai, and though they all stick to a price agreement there are variations in professionalism. Prices for day-trips including two tanks, equipment and lunch start at B2500. Dive courses cost B3400 for the introductory Discover Scuba day, B12,900 for the certificated four-day Openwater course, and B10,400 for a two-day Advanced course.