Dive - custom package

      Galapagos Islands

      AB
      Academy Bay Diving
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      86 reviews
      Duration: 8 days
      Group size: 1 - 999
      Dive - custom package
      Galapagos Islands

      Academy Bay Diving
      • Email address verified
      86 reviews

      Duration: 8 days
      Group size: 1 - 999

      About this trip

      During your time in Galapagos you will have the opportunity to explore above and below the water and come up close and personal with many of the endemic species of Galapagos. From your first day to your last with the extraordinary sites at Isabela, you will not stop being amazed and  wondered by these enchanted islands.


      14th Feb - transfer for 2 people from airport with visit to Highlands giant tortoise. (Their flight lands at 12.03pm)

      15th - land and snorkel tour North Seymour - 2 people

      16th - free (can the girls disembark Tiburon in the evening?) 

      17th - free

      18th - Diving Gordon Rocks - 2 people

      19th - free

      20th - free

      21st - Ferry to Isabela 7am or 3pm - 4 people




      What’s not included

      • Airport Transfers
        Pick up with Highlands visit
      • Tours as stated
        Dive tours & land tour in itinerary
      • Equipment
        All dive equipment & snorkel equipment for tours
      • Ferry
        Inter island ferries x 1

      Available Packages

      Hotel - 7 nights with diving

      Includes - airport transfer with Highlands visit

      - 7 nights in hotel with breakfast 

      - land & snorkel tour Seymour 

      - 1 day of diving

      - ferry to Isabela

      $1,456
      Deposit: $946
      Hotel - 7 nights no diving

      Includes - airport transfer with Highlands visit

      - 7 nights in hotel with breakfast 

      - land & snorkel tour Seymour 

      - ferry to Isabela

      $1,222
      Deposit: $795
      Hotel 5 nights - no diving

      - 5 nights in hotel with breakfast 

      - ferry to Isabela

      $559
      Deposit: $364
      Hotel 5 nights - with diving

      - 5 nights in hotel with breakfast 

      - 1 day of diving

      - ferry to Isabela

      $793
      Deposit: $515


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      AB
      Academy Bay Diving
      86 reviews
      Academy Bay Diving is a family owned and run business dedicated to providing our customers with an amazing and safe dive experience in the Wonderful Galapagos Marine Reserve.

      Reviews

      Amazing diving experience. The diving itself is just mindblowing, but that was expected. The team of Academy Bay went instead beyond expectations. They are excellent and extremely competent, they took care of everything with great detail and made all the trips more special and relaxed. They even managed to make quite easy (thanks to how they organised it and how they prepared us) the more difficult drift dives with strong currents. Highly recommended (especially compared with some other dive centres on the other main islands).
      By Beniamino A for Daily Dive Tours on Mar 19, 2024
      The three trips we booked with Academy Bay Diving were excellent. Except for a minor glitch regarding meeting time/location on the 2nd day trip (Academy Bay resolved to my satisfaction) ... the guides were excellent as were the crew. Very knowledgeable and accommodating. Lunch served on board each boat was some of the best food we had while visiting Galapagos! Thanks for the wonderful experience!
      By Catherine O for Land & Snorkel Tours - varios 2024 on Feb 29, 2024
      This is a Tiburon Explorer liveaboard review (NOT Academy Bay Diving): Considering the huge price of this live aboard, we were really disappointed with the experience. The boat was only two years old so we thought we were paying a high price for high quality. Not so. The boat was very tired. The top deck had been patched many times with glue but still had holes in it. When it rained, water poured into the main salon, onto the floor, sofa, dining table and around all the ceiling lights. It also poured into one of the cabins, onto the bed. The crew did their best, with towels everywhere, but it was a mess. Tiburon is a boat that was made cheaply with the wrong materials and it’s now not fit for purpose. Safety was not taken seriously by the dive leaders. The briefings were poor, using slides with the wrong information on them. No currents or temperatures were checked at sites prior to briefings. We were told temperature would be 22/23 degrees when it was 27-29 degrees in the water all week. Currents in the water were often completely different to what had been briefed. Communication from dive leaders during the dives was poor. Certain divers were running out of air and sharing on octopus regularly, deliberately. It was hard to catch up with the leaders in order to tell them ‘low on air’ because of the currents. No checks were made on divers depths vs nitrox percentage. One diver wasn’t nitrox certified but was allowed to dive on nitrox all week without any understanding of the implications. Despite saying divers needed 50 dives, they accepted one diver with only 25 dives. Then buddied her up with us, meaning our dives were short as she used so much air. If Explorer is accepting inexperienced divers they should insist that they have a private guide, like other boats do. No focus on non-decompression limits. Some divers went into deco dives. One diver told the dive leader (Alex) that she was almost at her no-deco limit and he told her to go up, by herself, in strong currents. Despite my friend and I paying a huge amount and booking early, the 3 single divers who booked at the last minute with enormous discounts were the ones also given single cabins, with no single supplement paid. We should have been offered these cabins first as we had paid significantly more. The diving was good, the rest of the crew worked hard and the food was good. But there are much less expensive options and I would not recommend Tiburon Explorer.
      By Mary S for Dive - custom package on Feb 27, 2024
      Nice diving spots with a lot to see, good to moderate visibility. Very professional staff, good service. If I return to Santa Cruz I will approach them again for diving.
      By Aurimas M for Daily Dive Tours on Feb 25, 2024
      Everyone at Academy Bay did a great job and we really enjoyed our day trips to Bartolome and North Seymour Islands as well as our two days diving!! It was so good to get back underwater after four years and Santa Fe & Floreana were both easy dive sites with lots to see! The dive masters were great at pointing things out and lunches were filling and good. We hope to return again one of these days and until then, all the best! Becky and Don Brunk; Bellingham, WA
      By Rebecca B for Land & Snorkel Tours 2024 on Feb 18, 2024
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      References

      acabamos de regresar de Galápagos conde realizamos seis increíbles días de buceos... por lejos los mejores en 20 años. Tanto por los hermosos lugares y fauna de la isla y alrededores, por sus equipos de primera calidad y sobre todo por sus guías y todo el personal del centro. Es increíble como aman su isla y como transmiten todo lo que saben de su fauna e historia. gracias Alex, Jimmy y Santiago
      By sergio d on 02 Apr, 2023