It’s that time of the month again where we get the lull before the storm, the Koh Phangan Full Moon Party. That time when pretty much every traveler in Thailand is currently descending on Koh Phangan Full Moon Party, to buy cheap and cheerful day-glow singlets and shorts in preparation for the full moon party.
Personally I can’t think of anything worse than being trapped on a beach with 30,000 young beautiful people, whilst we all get plied with booze.. no wait, I’m thinking of that film Battle Royal, with the booze being replaced with weaponry. Ramblings aside, what this all means for Koh Tao and Big Blue is that the Island is currently pretty quiet, but in a couple of days it’s going to be very busy, even though it’s supposedly Monsoon.
So in a couple of days, at around 9am in the morning we’ll start to see get the drip drip of people coming into the resort who don’t know where they are, why they are here, or what there names are. All they will know is they want to learn to dive, which is also a good opportunity to detox. The drip drip will quickly turn into a torrent of people.
When you arrive we’ll sit you down with a non alcoholic welcome drink and give you your options; do you want to learn how to dive, which will take 3 days, starting with a two hour orientation on the evening that you arrive, or do you just want to experience being underwater? If it’s the latter you can do a try dive, which will take one day and give you two full dives with an instructor watching over you the entire time.
If you’re already qualified to dive there are loads of options available to you, from fun diving, to taking your diving further and undertaking some specialty courses like deep, wreck and nitrox, or even technical diving. Once you’ve decided what you want to do we can set you up with accommodation with us, which, in Monsoon may be free whilst you’re diving if you want a dorm room.
But if you can, before you party the night and day away, please, please, please go on our website and book your diving and accommodation, as when it gets really busy we can’t guarantee that we will have any availability for rooms, and bear in mind we have a lot more rooms available than most other dive resorts on the Island. Of course, we can still guarantee being able to dive with us though. For any pre-monsoon queries, send us an email and we’ll get straight back to you.
