PADI Open Water
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3–4 days · no experience needed
Nine dives, certified to 18 metres.
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What It Costs Every price, and the ones nobody quotes
Open Water and Advanced are both all-inclusive — ask us for the current price. What follows is everything around them: the island fees, the insurance, the professional courses, and the costs most dive centres leave off the page.
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- Open Water, all-in
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- Advanced, all-in
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- Private, one to one
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- Two-tank fun dive
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- Full equipment rental
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Recreational courses
The Two Prices Most People Need
Both all-inclusive. Equipment, instruction, boats, tanks, certification and insurance are in the number.
PADI Advanced
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2–3 days · Open Water required
Five Adventure Dives, certified to 30 metres.
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Any course · you and your instructor
No other students and the schedule entirely yours, including split sessions across a day.
Book this optionA 20% deposit secures your place; the balance is payable on arrival. Wise and international bank transfer carry no surcharge; Visa and Mastercard add a 3% bank processing fee. Cash accepted at the dive centre in IDR, USD or EUR. Groups of four or more booking together can be quoted as a package.
Not in the course fee
Three Costs to Budget Separately
None of these go to us. All three are easy to forget until you are standing on the jetty.
Island fees
± IDR 150,000
Local government entrance plus the Gili Eco Trust contribution, paid once in cash on arrival. It funds reef conservation and the islands' waste management.
Cash, once, per person
Dive insurance
Check your policy
Course insurance is included while you train with us. Your own travel policy may exclude scuba entirely — including chamber treatment for decompression sickness, which is the expensive one.
Verify before you fly
Stay and eat
From $20/night
Accommodation and meals are never bundled into our course fee, which keeps you free to pick. Trawangan runs from hostels to villas, Meno mostly bungalows.
Your choice, not ours
Already in the price
What You Are Not Paying Extra For
Six things dive centres commonly charge on top. We do not.
Equipment rental
The full Scubapro and Aqualung set for the whole course. No per-day rental, no wetsuit surcharge.
eLearning and manual
The official PADI materials, not a photocopied workbook.
Certification fees
The PADI processing charge (PIC) and your e-card. This is the one most often billed separately at the end.
Boats and tanks
Every transfer and every filled tank across all your training dives.
Diver insurance
DAN-affiliated cover for the duration of your training.
Extra sessions
If a skill needs repeating you are not billed for the time. Mastery-based, not clock-based.
Specialty courses such as Enriched Air or Deep Diver run one to two days and are priced separately — ask us for the current price. The Night Adventure Dive carries a surcharge when taken as an Advanced elective.
Going professional
Divemaster and Instructor
Divemaster
Four to eight weeks, often structured as an internship. Entry needs Advanced plus Rescue, 40 logged dives to begin and 60 to certify, and you must be 18.
IDC
Around two weeks, then a separate two-day Instructor Examination. The IE fee is charged by PADI and is not part of what we quote.
Rescue Diver first
A prerequisite for the professional path, and the course most divers call the most useful one they have taken.
Why prices vary
Internship length, how many specialties you fold in, and whether materials and equipment are bundled. We quote the exact figure once we know which.
Professional training is quoted case by case, because the total depends on how long the internship runs and what is bundled into it. Ask us for a current quote before you plan around it.
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The Season Moves Everything Else
Our course prices are flat all year. Flights, villas and packages are not — from November to March they drop 20–30%, and the reef is quieter. If your dates are flexible, that is where the saving actually is.
Best time to dive
Money
Common Questions
Nothing we charge is outside the quoted fee. Outside it: accommodation, meals, and the island entrance plus Gili Eco Trust contribution of roughly IDR 150,000 per person, paid once in cash on arrival.
You are buying the instructor's whole day rather than a quarter of it. The course content is identical — what changes is that nobody else is in the water with you and the schedule bends entirely to yours.
Four or more booking together can be quoted as a package. Tell us the number and the course and we will price it properly rather than applying a blanket percentage.
A 20% deposit books it; the balance is due on arrival. Wise and bank transfer carry no surcharge, cards add 3%. We take cash in IDR, USD or EUR at the centre.
Our course prices do not change. Everything around them does — flights, accommodation and packages fall 20–30% from November to March, which is where the real saving sits.
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Four Steps to an Exact Quote
Tell us the course, the dates and how many of you. We reply within four hours during operating hours with a figure, not a range.
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Your details
Course, dates, group size, and whether you want private instruction.
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Exact quote
One figure, plus the island fees you will pay locally so nothing surprises you.
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20% deposit
Wise, transfer or card. eLearning access follows straight after.
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Balance later
Payable on arrival, in IDR, USD or EUR.