A scuba diving package holiday is an excellent way to get a few dives into your log book and increase your scuba diving experience significantly. During your first year or two diving it is sometimes hard to get on club trips and excursions. You build up your experience slowly, a couple of weekends away in the summer when the novices are being taught about sea and boat diving – a few trips to the inland quarries at the weekends. Your tally of dives creeps up to 20, 30….

Then you get the chance to go on a scuba diving package. This could be a trip with Regal Dive to the Red Sea to shore dive from a hotel base in Marsa Alam. Alternatively it could be a live-aboard trip to the Deep South to try to encounter the big pelagic species – sharks and manta rays. You might get the chance for some Far Eastern diving in Phuket, or the Barrier Reef.

Wherever you are able to go, a scuba diving package means that the transport, accomodation and diving are all included in the holiday. This means that to get the most out of the trip you will probably do most if not all of the available dives that are on offer. This can mean up to four dives a day. I have even heard of some operators that allow five or unlimited dives, but I consider that it would be difficult to get more than four good and safe dives into one day unless you were simply splashing around in the shallows!

A weeks holiday with a scuba diving package can mean that you quickly add around 20 dives to your log book. In addition to having a fantastic time it also quickly launches you into the next experience level of your diving career. You will feel that after a week, your diving skills will have been well honed after the intensive diving routine. Your buoyancy skills will be better and you will probably find that you are more relaxed in the water.

Now with 50 or more dives in your log book you may find it easier to get onto the more experienced dives that are being planned by your club. Your added experience allows you to move to the next stage of your formal training and your diving takes on a new and interesting slant – it starts to become more challenging and more rewarding. An investment in a scuba dive package holiday can certainly help you to move your diving up a notch!