So found ‘A full day of scuba diving’ via ‘Viator’ a website for experiences.
The wording and description was misleading to myself as expected a full day of scuba diving.
The staff were lovely and you felt well looked after as had a lot of one on one supervision. Myself and my partner were picked up from our hotel and returned for €16 euros altogether which was great.
We were picked up at 7.15am.
On arriving to the boat as I said the staff were lovely. We set sail about an hour after arrival as a lot of others coming on board.
During the sail to the area we were to be scuba diving we were given a briefing by Michael explaining how to scuba dive and what sea life we could potentially see.
We were told that we would be having a 20 minute scuba dive. After that if we wanted to have another 20 minute scuba diving session we would need to pay €35 euros per person, they said we could put our names down incase we wanted the second dive but to let them know as soon as possible if we did not want this.
*Please note they did also give information for those who wanted to do more diving for further experience or fun and they also help with those who want a PADI certificate in which to enable you to dive anywhere in the world- this could be started on the day itself and they did offer discounts*. We couldn’t do this due to not having the money to do so.
We were also told they would be taking photos of us while scuba diving and to purchase these after they would be €20 euros altogether but if you are alone as one person €15.
We were given a group number and our group started around 10.30am. Staff helped us into wetsuits and the scuba diving gear. Once in the water we had some time to practice getting use to going under the water with the mouth piece and then we went scuba diving.
The scuba dive was good but when going under into the water I felt the 20 minute time we had underwater scuba diving was spent us posing for photos rather than actually being able to look at what was around us in the sea. Fish were seen but I didn’t feel there was any encouragement or the staff pointing sea life out for us to look at.
So that felt disappointing and that’s what put myself and my partner off going for a second dive. The staff were lovely though and were close on hand for anything at all. There were plenty of staff in the water for any problems and that was amazing especially for confidence and support.
We were told there were drinks and food on the boat but didn’t have these. They also showed us the scuba diving photos we could purchase but due to the cost we didn’t purchase them.
After this it was a bit disappointing. As written above we had been told we could have a second dive if we payed for this at €35 euros each. We were also aware we could use the snorkel equipment on the boat that they provide. If you didn’t want to do either then you waited on the boat till you could be returned to the shore.
Myself and my partner enjoy snorkeling so we chose to spend a good hour snorkeling around the boat and enjoyed ourselves a lot. We saw a lot of sea life just by snorkeling so would definitely recommend people to do this.
We then returned to the boat and waited to be transferred to our hotel about 3pm.
On the viator’ website it says its a 9 hour day so probably from start to finish from our hotel to the boat and back took about 8 hours. Which was fine for us just again not as described on the website.
Overall it was a lovely day for us but felt if we didn’t want to go snorkeling after scuba diving or didn’t have the confidence to do so we would have had a 20 minute scuba dive and the rest of the time would have been spent sitting on a boat waiting around to go back to the shore a lot of which other reviews wrote about.
We spent £119 for two tickets (£59.50 each) for the whole experience via ‘Viator’. We could see where this money went: running the boat, staff and diving equipment. Just felt disappointed by the 20 minutes of scuba diving when we were expecting more scuba diving from the websites description of the experience. – via 
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