Assava Dive Resort

Just back from 3 days of diving in Koh Tao with my family (3 children age 10, 11 & 13) and couldn’t recommend Assava more. The rooms were lovely and the location is absolutely stunning, with a great onsite bar/restaurant too. The whole place had a lovely chilled out vibe and the staff in the dive centre, resort and restaurant were really friendly and welcoming. My husband and I did some fantastic diving, while the kids did a number of discover scuba dives from the same dive boat. Heidi, their instructor, was amazing and all three kids rated it as their best 3 days ever! Our only regret was not having another few days there.

I moved to Assava from the sister company of Ban's Diving Resort. This location is much further off the beaten path than the more touristy area near Ban's. The diving trips had much less people and were much more catered to doing diving courses, which was great for me. All the staff were fantastic when it came to adjusting the dive sites to cater for the courses I was completing. So much so that after finishing my Rescue Diver course, I tacked on the Advanced Open Water course, nitrox course and shipwreck diver course. All of which was extremely easy to organise compared to trying to set up even a recreational dive with other companies on Koh Tao. This would be the number 1 place I would recommend anyone get any and all dive certifications. However if you are intending to go anywhere from this location around the island, there is a scooter rental 100m from the hotel. - Room size/layout - ⭐️⭐️ - Small room with 2 double beds next to each other - Cleanliness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Cleaned daily by housekeeping - Maintenance - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Clearly an older build with expected wear and tear - Bed - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Firm but comfortable - Pillows - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Flat and lacking support - Shower - ⭐️⭐️⭐️- Small room w/toilet in the shower. Shower water gets quite cool but not cold - Toilet - ⭐️⭐️⭐️- Bidet toilet, no paper to be flushed - Towels - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Moderately sized towels with good absorption. Extra pool towels provided - Closet/Drawers - ⭐️⭐️ - Small rack with 4 coat hangers - Table - ⭐️ - Small bench to store items, but nowhere to eat/prepare food - Power - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Power outages once a day or so (ranging between 10-45min) - Aircon - ⭐️⭐️ - Barely kept the room cool. - Breakfast -⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Good food a short walk to the restaurant, but no continental breakfast included. - Kitchen - No kitchen in room - Room service - No, but not really required when so close to hotel restaurant - WiFi - ⭐️⭐️ - Unreliable and I tended to use my cellular instead - Parking - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Adequate parking for a rental scooter - Laundry - ⭐️⭐️⭐️- Coin operated washer and dryer near to restaurant, but no laundry service. (We used a laundry service just down the street from the hotel entrance) - Pool ⭐️⭐️ - Mostly used for dive training (very hot water, no shade and highly chlorinated) - Restaurant - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - A nice short walk from the rooms, all outside, small fans but no aircon. The food is a good mix of Thai food and more western options - Literally 10m from the restaurant/dive shop is the beach - Multiple nice areas to sit by the restaurant with bean bags, or chairs and enjoy the beach view - Beach sand is mostly small rocks and coral, not a great beach to walk along if you have soft feet - Dive instructors - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The whole team were fantastic and it was extremely easy to book in for extra dives, certification courses and get additional training. - Skip - fantastic Divemaster, extremely knowledgeable and helpful - Sofia - great rapport with students, made me

I did my Advanced Open Water with Jamie and had so much fun! He is such a good teacher and always makes sure that you are doing alright:)))) thanks for some of the most memorable days of my backpacking trip 🌸🫧🌞🌸🫧🌞🐢🙏🏼👌🏼😌😜 If your are planning to get your open water / aow on Koh Tao, do it will Assava ＜3 (and Jamie)

The place is located right at the beach. It is a resort with various types of rooms and also it is a dive shop. It is super convenient to sign up for scuba diving. They go out twice a day, both are two tanks dives. They are well organized and have their own dive boat. The boat is comfortable and the equipment is in good condition. All of the dive masters and the staff are friendly, knowledgeable and fun to be with. My dive master was Benny. He is patient, friendly and helpful. Their fun dive package is good value with discount if you have multiple dives with them.

Had an amazing experience at Assava going through the Advanced Open Water Course! Shoutout to Will the instructor, super professional and made us feel like we are in good hands at any moment. Would definitely come back 💯💯

What an experience! Everything went perfectly and the diving school is super professional. A special thanks to Vianney, my instructor. I had a great time with him and can only recommend everyone to do their diving license here. It was a pleasure!

We did the first time diving in our life with this dive resort. Because we didn't have any experience with diving, our instructor Jason took the time to explain everything into details. We felt safe going into the water under supervision of him! We had a great time with him as a instructor. Also the other instructors were really interested in your progress during the training. Everything falls into place at Assava. Another really important part is that Assava isn't overloaded with tourist. That is why they can focus on your skill en ability to dive. Also the contact with the dive resort is personal and not automated generated message. And because it was our first time, that was important to us because we had a lot of questions. We highly recommend this dive resort! 🤙🏻

I completed my Padi open water with Isa and George, they where both great communicators which helped me pick up the required skills to complete the course. Lovely humans floating around here. Up and about crew to get you where you need to be to excel.

Stayed here for 5 days and it was very great. I did the open water dive course and it went well. My instructor was Jess, she explained everything to me very clearly and I had a great time. Thank you so much for everything. Definitely stay here if you’re in Koh Tao