We did a week with Sam's in January of 2012. It's a very well-run operation. It's larger than most but they manage it very well. Palau diving is world-renown so I won't go into that. We did a kayaking/snorkeling trip that was awesome. We did some wreck diving near Koror. Dive guides were excellent, showed us everything we wanted to... More

I just returned from another fantastic dive trip to Palau. Sam's is a great dive operation....well organised, great dive guides and amazing dive sites. Not decimated as many dive areas are nowadays, everything alive and vibrant. Congrats on their being progressive establishing the Palau Shark Sanctuary....lots of sharks for the viewing...along with lots of "big and small" stuff. Trips to... More

We dove with Sam's for two weeks in March. The first week we were diving with the large group we came with. They assigned two boats to the group and were very good about accomodating our requests. The second week we were on our own and the experience was completely different. They handle about 120 divers on 10 boats every... More

We had 5 days of diving with Sam's Tours in April. The diving in Palau surely lives up to the hype. I would say it is almost impossible for any dive operator to provide a bad experience in Palau, given the quality of the dive sites that they have to work with. This was certainly the case with Sam's Tours,... More

A friend and I spent an incredible 6 days with John and Charlie. Loved it!! Charlie's food and dive mastery (not to mention photography skill) and Johns captaincy enabled our holiday to be one that we will always remember and have as the benchmark for our adventure travels. It's not luxury, it's adventure travel. It was perfect for us and... More

Sams is first rate every dive was picture perfect the guides are knowledgable and take their time to point out the varios animals and corals for example they had previosuly seen 2 cuttlefish and took us to that site and we werent disappointed. The whole operation seemed to run perfectly and Nick the in house videographer is great. Our divemasters... More

Sam’s Tours is a relatively big operation, especially compared to the dive operators we normally use. It reminded me of Stuart Cove’s except not quite as massive or as machine like in its operation (which is both good and bad). The diving was the best we’ve ever done but that’s going to be true with anyone you dive with in... More

Had a little trouble with them as i had booked 5 days of scuba diving 2 days of 2 scuba dives then one with jellyfish lake the other with chandelier cave, 3 days of 3 scuba dives and a nitrox course(which I highly suggest as it increases time in the amazing waters of Palau). The first day i only did... More

Our family of four - husband, wife and 2 daughters (10 and 13) did a 6 day liveaboard on Eclipse recently. I really wanted to give it an excellent rating and parts of it were - in fact the highlights were fantastic but there are a couple of things that I hope John and Charlie take on board.( However, readers... More