Turtle Dive

Turtle Dive

Turtle Dive
4.5
Scuba & SnorkellingBoat ToursWater Sports
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Dive center number one in Nha Trang, Vietnam. Daily Scuba Diving and Snorkeling trips to Hon Mun Island Marine Protected Area. Full range of courses from beginner to professional level.
Nha Trang, Vietnam
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4.5 of 5 bubbles80 reviews
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Lana Kieu
Nha Trang, Vietnam1 contribution
5.0 of 5 bubbles
May 2020
I went diving several times with Turtle dive, always very professional.

Good equipment, very friendly staff, excellent food and drinks. More importantly, price is very affordable and there are not many people on the boat.

Highly recommended to try scuba diving with Turtle Dive if you travel to Nha Trang.
Written June 11, 2020
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Dear lana_kieu, Thank you so much for taking time and giving us your feedback! We are so grateful to know that you enjoyed your experience with us and had a good time scuba diving! Thank you for mentioning quality of equipment and food, we try our best to provide high level of service to our customers at best price in the city. We really hope to see you again soon, Best regards, Turtle Dive Crew
Written June 23, 2020
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Nicola K
Kettering, UK1 contribution
5.0 of 5 bubbles
May 2020 • Couples
This was my first dive and I am really happy I went with Turtle Dive! The whole experiemce felt like being in finding Nemo, the amount of colourful fish and coral was amazing. I loved the Christmas tree worms, and we seen baracudas eek! I wish I had taken a warerproof camera as it was like being in another world. Thanks to the guys at the centre for a great service, it was very safe and easy. We had two dives and some tasty local food for lunch and were back by 2pm which is great! I was buzzing afterwards and cannot wait to do it again. I have to mention Turtle Dive are the most competitive with price, they offered the best deal in Nha trang. :)
Written August 9, 2020
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Dear Nicolaagnes, Thank you so much for your kind words and recommendations. It was pleasure to have been your diving team. We are so grateful to be able to share our passion of the underwater world and we hope that you will continue scuba diving. Best regards, Turtle Dive Crew
Written June 17, 2021
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zosh45
12 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jun 2020
Turtle Dive (TD) is the best travel agency in Nha Trang. I'd like to recommend TD if my friends are goona travel in Nha Trang.

The instructor Mr. Viet is very kind and friendly. He always make people feel very comfortable, so it was easy to learn diving. He is very professional as well.

Lunch is also very nice. TD provides gravy chicken, egg rolls, noodles, rice and soup (pork with vegetables) in lunch time.
The other agency provides just Banmi as a lunch. Well, Banmi is also not bad but it's obliviously sure that TD's lunch and food (watermelon and pineapple) are better than the other's.

여행 영어 가능하신 한국분들은 Turtle Dive에 가시면 정말 만족하실 것입니다. 특히, Mr. Viet이란 친구가 영어도 아주 능통하고 사람을 아주 편하게 해줍니다. 자기 손님은 소외되는 사람 없이 잘 돌아가며 살뜰이 챙기더군요.

한 번은 다른 에이전시에 어쩔 수 없이 동행한 날도 있었는데, 제공되는 점심이 정말 반미더라구요. Turtle Dive는 한국인 입맛에 맛는 닭고기, 계란말이, 돼지고깃국, 볶음면에 밥까지 정말 든든히 먹을 수 있게 준비해 줍니다. 완정강추하는 곳이니 고민하지 마시고 TD의 Mr. Viet을 통해 다이빙 체험하시거나 배우시는 거 추천 합니다. ^^
Written June 24, 2020
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Dear zosh45, Thank you so much for your review, we are happy that you choose to learn diving with us and already got your Advanced Open water license, and hope that will continue learning to upgrade your level. We also want to thank you for your kind words about our instructor Viet, his personality and professionalism. We do believe that we have the best team. Thank you for mentioning food at lunch, our chef is trying her best to serve freshly cooked meals to our customers on daily basis. We hope to see you soon. Best regards, Turtle Dive Crew
Written June 26, 2020
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Svetlana S
Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia29 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Mar 2012 • Friends
I was lucky enough to get acquainted with "turtle dive" in March 2012
Team very cheerful, friendly and prfessionalny.
I put to sea with them several times, and I dream of it still!
TURTLE DIVE FOREVER!!!
Written July 3, 2012
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mk2n
Cologne, Germany40 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Dec 2019 • Couples
I did a dive trip what used the turtle dive boat. On the 4th dive my diving knive was falling off when I got back into the boat. A little later a turtle instructor found it and wanted more money to return the knive then I paid for it when it was new. In my opinion a very bad attitude. The other turtle staff was very friendly though. But after this experience I would not recommend diving with turtle dive. There are many other companies with newer equipment and better attitude.
Written December 10, 2019
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Dear mk2n, Thank you very much for sharing your experience, we are very sorry for the incident with your diving knife, but we would like to explain for you some details of this situation. Originally you booked your diving course with another dive company which used our boat to combine customers together. In this case all diving equipment is provided by the company of your booking, not Turtle Dive equipment. We investigated with our crew that the person founded your dive knife was an employee from other boat, which means that Turtle Dive is not responsible for this case. We just want to thank you for your time in giving us feedback. Because of your comment, we were able to improve our services. We really hope that next time you will double check all information before posting bad review. Best regards, Turtle Dive Crew
Written June 11, 2020
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Rebecca M
London, UK25 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Aug 2017 • Couples
We had an awesome experience with Turtle Dive. My boyfriend and I are both fun divers (advanced and rescue) and have found throughout Asia the diving has been substandard and the dive masters have been poorly trained.
Turtle dive was a breath of fresh air - chilled dive briefing, super chilled dive with only one other person on the dive and awesome boat team.

The diving itself way exceeded expectation: cuttlefish, giant moray eels, the biggest frog fish any of us have ever seen, barracuda, triggers - the works. Madonna Rocks is a great dive site and I would definitely recommend.

Lunch and snacks provided were excellent, as was the free tea, coffee and water.

A massive shout out to the lady who works at head office for being amazing when we lost our key to the bike we hired as well. Lots of places would try to rip you off when something like losing a key goes wrong, but the lady who rented us the bike was incredibly helpful and left us with an even better impression of the company.

Top tips:
- Can't comment on how the courses would be for new learners (I'm sure excellent) but our dives were very chilled out. No enforcing of safety checks, no constant checking of air. If you're qualified but not that confident, this might not be the right company for you. If you're a confident diver who likes a more chilled out approach to diving, come and dive here!
- Bring suncream!!!
- Dive sites are chosen on the thermocline. I usually dive without a wetsuit and I needed a full length for these dives - it was pretty chilly below the cline so if they say a dive site is off the cards it's with good reason.
- 100% wear a wetsuit (they'll tell you to). Jellyfish!
Written August 22, 2017
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Ashley W
3 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
May 2015 • Friends
We were quite sceptical about diving with this company at first because there were quite a few negative reviews on trip advisor, but we happened to stumble across the Turtle Diving office in Nha Trang when we were walking around so we stopped in to ask them some questions and decided we would try it out since it was so cheap ($45 for 2 dives).

We had an AWESOME time! The staff were awesome! They were friendly, funny, helpful with equipment/questions, and contrary to what the reviews on here state, they DO SPEAK ENGLISH! We were lucky enough to have the boat to ourselves today because no one else had booked since it is low season, and they served us a really yummy lunch (rice, eggs, soup with vegetables and meat, as well as fruit and coffee for snacks). The dive equipment was in good condition, and the dive itself was awesome! The visibility was 15-20m and we saw a lot of pretty fish, and the coral was awesome! One of my best dives yet! I strongly recommend this place, I feel bad that this company doesn't have more good reviews because they definitely deserve it! We are so glad we decided to give it a shot.
Written May 21, 2015
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maddiver_2001
U/W1 contribution
2.0 of 5 bubbles
Sep 2011 • Friends
Now i;m gonna sure look twice before to head on dive club while base my choice on prices.
Turtle dive,Nha-Trang,were surely one of the most attractive ,but we felt like just beeing good for pay without having a single word to say.The day strated well with only 9 peolples on the boat,half of wich were on for snorkeling,and four of us for diving.we have been quite surpriseto see when we came back from the first dive,no less than 16 vietnamese,on the boat waiting for try dive,smoking our cigarettes,eating and drinking what we had pay for,whatever.But after 2 hours,we've started to complain,and the only answer ,we've got,were,THEY are locals and they pass first,the worst was they ate lunch on the boat who was for 9 peoples(25 persons on!!!!).No apologises,no explanations,the only words when comes back to the main office were :how do you want pay?cash or card.The staff on the boat didn't even pay attention to a 15 years old boy(with his parents) who got bite by some jelly fish.SO ARE WE JUST SEEN AS DOLLARDS ATM,hopefully not,we've met a lot of nice people througt our trip(who's not finish)
Written September 29, 2011
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Emmanuel B
36 contributions
2.0 of 5 bubbles
They take you on a run down boat where the staff (including dive instructors) barely speak any English. The dive sites were probably nice a few years ago but nowadays tourism has taken its toll and the beatiful corals are slowly being replaced with plastic bags and trash. Still a few fish around but for how long ? No safety briefing, just gear up and go. Equipment is old, put your ear next to the first stage regulator and you can hear it leak on nearly half the tanks. I had my depth gauge not working and the staff just doesn't care. No safety stop or pressure checks throughout the dive. The only positive aspects I can find are the lunch which was okay and the price which was very cheap.
Written May 16, 2014
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Yorskie
London, UK29 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
Feb 2019 • Couples
We chose this company because the travel agent said they provide fins for snorkelling which it seems not all dive companies do, the travel agent told us fins weren’t necessary while initially trying to sell us a marginally cheaper snorkelling trip. Anyway, Turtle Dive do provide fins as standard snorkelling equipment and will even let you use their wetsuits if you want, also for free.

There was a mix of snorkellers, divers and people there just for the boat trip with a small maximum number that I don’t remember - somewhere between 16-20. Our half day package was to go to two locations off one of the islands near Nha Trang to snorkel/dive and included a freshly cooked buffet lunch onboard - pork & quail eggs, omelette, beef & veg soup, veggie noodles and steamed rice. Bananas and caffeine were freely available throughout the trip.

The negative is that the team is uninterested in engaging with their customers; they’re obviously very fond of each other and thoroughly enjoyed playing long cards on the boat together but they didn’t talk to us except to give us information or teach/advise which was done very professionally. There’s no mollycoddling here which is refreshing but the standoffishness seemed a bit extreme; with just a little bit of spark between the team and their clients, they’d be a great outfit.

Written February 4, 2019
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Dear Yorskie, We just want to thank you for your time in giving us feedback. Because of your comment, we were able to improve our services. Best regards, Turtle Dive Crew
Written June 9, 2020
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