Bluewater Travel

I recently returned from a 5 week trip to Australia and Palau including a 10 day live-aboard on the Palau Siren. Laura my Travel Advisor was FABULOUS attending to every detail of the trip. The trip and excellent service exceeded my expectations. The diving was excellent with 3+ dives most days in great locations. We experienced lots of mantas, sharks, schools of fish, wrecks, turtles, and beautiful hard and soft coral. I highly recommend Laura and Bluewater Travel for your next diving adventure. Thank you

I would reccomend Simon 100%. Simon helped out on all the details on this trip(minus air travel). We did run into a few problems, but Simon helped us resolve the issues a quickly as possible and we had a great stay at the Iberostar Bayahibe hotel (picture of one of the many birds on the hotel grounds attached). and the Dressel dive shop(several members of staff pictured). was excellent in all respects. We took several dive excursions to Soana Island(pictures of Soana Is. and and a favorite resident attached). The overall trip was a great value and is highly recomended.

May 2024 Review: Solomon Islands LiveAboard with the Bilikiki. We just had a 10 day magical trip in the Solomon’s. The crew of the Bilikiki was amazing and the dive sites specially Tulagi, the mangroves and devil’s highway were epic. Best hard corals I have seen in my live. The diversity of marine live is incredible and the people from the Solomon’s are just amazing. It was a wonderful and humbling experience visiting the Solomon Islands.
December 2023 Review: We just had a magical diving trip to Xcalak, Banco Chinchorro and Tulum (Cenotes). We saw hundreds of Tarpons, Manatee, eagle rays in Xcalak; We saw nurse sharks, pristine corals and got lucky to see a pod of 12 dolphins and 4 salts water crocs. The Cenotes were amazing!. Thanks to Bluewater and XTC diving ….we had a grand adventure…can wait for our next trip with Bluewater!

Can’t say enough about Bluewater Travel and our agent, Laura. She answered all the many questions we had in a timely manner after booking the Indo Siren for a February 2024 trip to Raja Ampat. She really came through when the Indo Siren suffered a catastrophic fire, getting us a full refund after originally we were told to “wait”while they tried to find another boat. Laura immediately had another, even better, boat lined up, plus 3 days at a land resort so we could keep our flights unchanged. The detailed itinerary provided of the updated trip was so helpful. If we hadn’t had someone to advocate for us, who knows what boat we would ended up on, if one at all. Clients for life.

Best travel company on the planet! Super easy to work with, very detail oriented, and consistently set you up with the best accommodations in the best diving spots in the world. Just got done with Raja Ampat and Lembeh with Tim Yeo, and I feel so spoiled with how great it was. Exceeded expectations in all regards!

Jesse from Bluewater was so helpful in planning our trip to Alor, Indonesia! She guided us in choosing from several potential locations and resorts and helped us book our flights to a remote Indonesian island when I was struggling to find options on my own. We are savvy travelers who usually book on our own but her advice and insight was invaluable. She really understands what divers are looking for. I highly recommend and will definitely work with them in the future!

Honestly, what I should do is leave a one star review and tell everyone to avoid Bluewater like the plague. Then I won’t have to battle the hordes of other divers in making my future bookings.

But, that would be slightly unethical. So here goes:

I have nothing but good things to say about Bluewater Travel and my coordinator Jaime Smith. Everything was seamless, communication was fairly instantaneous and I had what has probably been the most epic dive trip I’ve ever been on.

I fully intend to utilize Bluewater for my future trips to Palau and the Solomon Islands.

Seriously the best trip I’ve ever been on and I’ve been diving for twenty plus years.

I used Bluewater for a Solomon’s island dive trip. It was wonderful. Anne was super helpful. I appreciated all the info and the 1:1 service. I’m going to use them for my next trip!

I was looking for a travel agency that specializes in scuba diving trips as there are many little steps to organize for the hotel, food, dives, equipment more than other travel sites. It was a great experience to have one dedicated agent to move through all those steps, answer questions and be involved in the travel plan experience. I am quite pleased with Bluewater Travel in this aspect.

Bluewater Travel made booking our liveaboard trip to Raja Ampat super easy and worry free. Their staff is top-notch and experienced. Anne helped us ever step of the way. Suppling us with a very helpful itinerary with frequent email updates. It’s no doubt that our next liveaboard trip will be booked with Bluewater Travel.

I found Bluewater travel while exploring dive trips online.
From our first contact, Jasmine has been extremely helpful, arranging my liveaboard trip to Socorro, booking hotels and helping with flights. She introduced me to the very handy Trip Plans app, where all the bookings are in one place.
I will certainly book my future dive adventures with Bluewater.

Only 5 star experience with “bluewater travel”! Laura has been helping me arranging my diving and land trips/ simple and very complex. She is very knowledgeable and has years of experience in the field. She genuinely cares about her costumers. Every trip I booked with this operator was outstanding. I highly recommend Bluewater travel for diving holidays .

Thank you to Jessie at Bluewater Travel for assisting in setting up the accommodation at BUSUANGA Bay Lodge and the wreck driver certification with Pirate Divers. My expectations for the resort and the diving were exceeded - especially the service provided by all. 🐠

I went on a trip to Romblon, and Romblon was a place with a lot of questions that were not solved by internet research. Particularly concerning was the unconfirmed transportation.
Everyone will have a lot of questions about the first place they visit. It was BlueWater Travel that solved those questions quickly and accurately. In particular, I was very moved by Anne Lucquoi's sincere service for helping me with my reservation. In spite of the variable transportation, or the somewhat sudden reservation inquiry, she proceeded with sincerity, and she helped me to be sure and confirm all the elements of the travel reservation.
I am well aware of the importance of the reservation process because I run the resort. I think her service was a very good example not only for users but also for the resort, which is a partner. If all the staff at Bluewater Travel are like her, I'll be using Bluewater Travel again soon. As a traveler or as a partner resort!

I just returned from an outstanding dive trip to Tubbataha. We were on the Philippines Siren dive boat. The trip was outstanding in every way and I'd highly recommend it. From crew and Jo the dive director, to all the crew helping, food, logistics, everything. And a huge shout out to Katie from Bluewater for helping with all the arrangements. She is such a pleasure to work with. Thanks Katie!!

I have been working with Bluewater Dive Travel for years, initially travelling with their guided underwater photo workshops which I still continue to do as well as individual customized dive travel. I have worked with many individuals over the years and more recently with Laura on my individual dive travel plans. So worth it!

The guided workshops are in worldclass destinations. I continue to work on my underwater photography skills from and enjoy all the trip leaders.

Laura plans my customized individual dive travel and is terrific - all travel arrangements are thought out and planned including transfers. This makes me so much more comfortable travelling on my own to international dive destinations. She and all the other agents at Blue Water are also well informed on dive destinations and I appreciate their input on the diving and photo opportunities I am looking for.

Overall, a great experience to work with Blue Water Dive Travel!

I had the pleasure of working with Jessie Hug, who helped me arrange a school trip to get a group of my students dive certified in Cozumel. Needless to say, there were a lot of moving pieces and complications involved when bringing a group of kids on an international trip, and Jessie was so helpful and responsive to all of my questions/concerns before, during, and after the trip. She even helped me communicate with the insurance, airlines, and dive shop when I needed to file claims for reimbursement (and this was no easy task!)

Overall, I'm so pleased and grateful for her help. I can't speak for the rest of the representatives, but if they are as on it as Jessie was, I can highly recommend Blue Water Travel!

Bluewater recently assisted us with travel to and booking with Papua Paradise Eco Resort. The resort did not disappoint. We experienced great diving, delicious food, lovely accommodations and superior service on a remote tropical island. The resort staff was wonderful.
Laura Taylor's knowledge of the region was extremely helpful. We definitely recommend Bluewater and will use them in the future.

Really appreciated all the great advice and research from Anne at Bluewater Travel. Could not have made such a great last minute trip without her! Had a wonderful live aboard on Raja Ampat Agressor and stay at Papua Paradise.

We've booked several trips through Bluewater. Tim and Sabine have proved superbly competent and communicative. They understand what types of travel we enjoy and what we don't. I was also extremely impressed at their handling of our trips when COVID shut down the world; they were able to work with the boat operators to rebook us after the world reopened.