What a spoilt, memorable and indelible 5 days of diving experience with Palau Dive Adventures... below are the impressions we had with them...

1) Fast, responsive and professional in answering all enquiries from hotel recommendations, transfer, dive equipment configuration prior to arrival to Palau

2) Dive boat was impressive, spacious, organized, attention to detail, well thought and comfortable. Max of 10 divers at any given time makes the dive group exclusive. We had our own seating arrangements with designated dive tanks allocated to us. This is a mega plus point as setting up, getting in and out of gear is easier as we don't sandwiched between other divers.

3) Our dive master is professional and entertaining, knowledgeable with our dive sites, clear on dive safety procedures, dive plan and what we are expected to see under water. In the water, all our dives are relaxing, slow and steady paced... never once we ran out of breadth trying to catch up with the DM!

4) Dive crew are just as helpful, attentive and professional... helping us get in and out of our gears, assembling our gears for us, making sure we are attended to.

5) Our gears are taken care of at end of each dive, cleaned and dried and ready for us when we returned the next day.

6) Dive captain is skillful in maneuvering the boat and always on a lookout for us, whenever we surfaced, he's always ready to pick us up!!

7) Have I mentioned lunch? We were given Bento style lunch boxes everyday with 18!! Menu to choose from...in between lunch, we were served with refreshing cold fruits and hot tea.

8) We arrived Palau on the eve of 2017. PDA, made transfer arrangements for us from airport to hotel and vice versa. We appreciate the efforts to assure we will be taken care of...

We will return one day, with a bigger group of friends and certainly with PDA!!

Special thanks and appreciation to the following people to making our vacation an amazing one!!

- Cheryl for spending new year with us in the van transferring us from the airport to the hotel and back. Being on time everyday to pick us up from hotel to the dive marina safely.

- Jason, Nick, Alan, Jessie for being our amazing dive guides, keeping us safe under water, pointing out interesting point of interest and maneuvering around some crowded dive areas to give us the best possible dive experience.

- Dustin our captain and (sorry forgot your name, but the guy who helped us with tank change and picking up our GoPro and fins at end of each dive) for being amazing and attentive to us.

My girlfriend and I booked with Palau Dive Adventures for a 5 day vacation. The dive master Jason was fantastic and incredibly knowledgeable, we had some apprehension as we are absolutely novice divers and has never really experienced currents or used reef hooks, but he made us feel comfortable at all times.

We dove the best spots Blue Corner, German Channel, Blue Holes etc. saw manta rays, tons of sharks, massive schools of fish, dolphins, turtles, eels, basically everything we hoped to see. We chose PDA over Sams because we wanted a smaller more intimate group which turned out to be a great idea as it was just one other couple and ourselves.

I also proposed to my girlfriend/fiancée underwater which PDA and Jason were invaluable in helping set up.

PDA had great and fast communication throughout the process, prior to our trip, during and a post trip follow up.

PDA was responsive, professional, safe and focused on ensuring our trip went off without a hitch!