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In my opinion the best scuba diving holidays for single travellers are liveaboard diving holidays. The best solo scuba diving trips are where you can easily meet other like-minded scuba divers.
I’ve written a number of articles about liveaboards with single cabins for single travellers. I’m going to include a few of these in this article. Then when I do more research into liveaboard dive boats with single cabins, I’ll add them to the end of this article.
Scuba diving holidays for single travellers: The best diving holidays for single travellers are liveaboards, as most waive the single supplement if you’re happy to share a cabin with another diver. As a single traveller diving on a liveaboard you’re with likeminded divers to make new friends or even make romantic connections so you don’t have to dive alone.
On a liveaboard you get to see places like the Galapagos, the Maldives or the Red Sea as a single diver.
The best way to do more diving is to book yourself on a scuba diving liveaboard. You can check the latest and best deals on liveaboards using the following window:
The best options for scuba diving holidays for single travellers
The following places are top destinations where liveaboards have single cabins for the single traveller.
Liveaboard diving for singles in the Galápagos Islands.
1. Liveaboard diving for singles in the Galápagos Islands
How do you fancy a diving trip to the Galápagos Islands. The Galápagos Islands are an amazing place to scuba dive, and you’re in luck as there are liveaboards with single cabins.
See the link below to the selected liveaboards that have single cabins.
Liveaboards in the article below can include single cabins with a single bed. But it also includes twin or triple cabins for solo divers who are happy to share with other single travellers, who are also looking to scuba dive the Galapagos Islands.
Most know that the Maldives is a paradise for anyone. But the Maldives is a very special place for scuba divers, although what if you’re a single traveler?
Like the Galápagos Islands there are liveaboard dive boats for single travellers too. Follow the link below to find out more.
4. Australian liveaboards for singles wishing to dive the Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is on many scuba diver’s bucket list and is a site of unmistakable variety and beauty.
It lies on the north-east coast of Australia. The Great Barrier Reef has the world’s largest collection of coral reefs with 400 types of coral. There are also around 1,500 species of fish and 4,000 types of mollusc to be found on this living World Heritage Site.
Australia liveaboards for single divers include twin cabins with single beds for solo divers who are happy to share with other single travellers, who are also looking to scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef.
The Caribbean and the Bahamas is on many scuba diver’s bucket list. The Bahamas is a coral-based archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Bahamas has over 700 islands and cays in total, which range from small uninhabited islands to the larger ones which are packed with tourists and resorts.
Scuba diving and snorkeling sites include the massive Andros Barrier Reef, Thunderball Grotto, which was used in James Bond films, the black-coral gardens off Bimini and the Tiger Shark Diveat Tiger Beach.
Single cabins on diving liveaboards in The Bahamas include twin and triple cabins with single beds for solo divers who are happy to share with other single travellers.
This list of liveaboards with single cabins and twin cabins is in descending customer rating order, followed by Scuba Diving Luxury Rating (SDE Lux Rating, see below), so the liveaboards with the highest customer rating and the best SDE lux rating will be at the top of the list. If you want to change the list order, use the “Sort by” dropdown below.
Table of dive liveaboards with single cabins
The following table includes dive liveaboards with single cabins from around the world:
The following table includes dive liveaboards with twin cabins for sharing from around the world (Note: You will only have to share with another diver of the same sex, unless you come as a mixed sex pair who are happy to share):
The Scuba Diving Earth Luxury Rating (SDE Lux Rating) is explained on each liveaboard review when you click the “Discover Liveaboard” link, and is my own Liveaboard Luxury Rating I’ve assigned to all liveaboards. Choosing between liveaboards is helped by customer scores, and if you get stuck choosing between two or three liveaboards, where each one has a high customer score out of 10, you can use the SDE Luxury Rating to help narrow down your choice.
Think about it like using Booking.com when searching for the best hotel. Booking.com also use a customer score where each customer rates hotels out of 10. This is similar to the liveaboard customer rating, which is also rated out of 10. But let’s say you only like to stay in hotels rated 8 and above on Booking.com, but you also want the hotel to have WIFI or parking, or to have a swimming pool etc. The features each hotel has is usually secondary to the score out of 10.
I hope you enjoyed this article about scuba diving holidays for single travellers
I’d love to hear from you. Tell us about your adventures of diving and snorkeling, in the comments below. Please also share your photos. Either from your underwater cameras or videos from your waterproof Gopro’s!
If this article hasn’t answered all of your questions. If you have more questions either about snorkeling or types of scuba diving (or specifically about scuba diving holidays for single travellers), please comment below with your questions.
There will also be many more articles about scuba diving (and snorkeling) for you to read and learn about these fabulous sports.
Have fun and be safe!
Scuba Diving Holidays For Single Travellers
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Article written by Russell Bowyer who has been a scuba diver since diving on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia in 1989. After his first dive he trained as a BSAC diver in the UK. He attained his Diver Leader certification with BSAC. He then went on to become a scuba diving instructor, teaching others how to dive and was voted as Diving Officer and Treasurer for the Saffron Walden BSAC club too. Russell has dived all over the world, including the UK, on liveaboards in the Red Sea, the Caribbean, South Africa and the USA. Russell is experienced in all dive types, including drift diving, deep dives that involved decompression stops and recreational dives too.
