Private diving with your own party and personal guidance
During a VIP Guided Dive, you dive exclusively with your own party and our SSI instructor. No other divers are added to your group.
Beforehand, we discuss your experience, certification and preferences. We tailor the guidance and choice of dive site to your group and the conditions on the day.
With a VIP Guided Dive, you dive only with your own party. This allows our instructor to tailor the guidance entirely to your experience, pace, air consumption and preferences.
You dive exclusively with the people you booked with. No other divers are added to your group.
Our instructor guides only your group and can tailor the preparation and guidance to your experience, certification and preferences.
During the dive, you do not need to accommodate other divers in the group. The instructor takes your pace, experience and air consumption into account.
There is plenty of time to enjoy the reef and marine life, ask questions or stay a little longer when you see something interesting.
From the first contact through to the conversation after the dive, we keep the preparation personal and straightforward.
You start at 08:00 at our dive center at Caracasbaaiweg 360 in Jan Thiel. We meet you personally and discuss your experience, certification and preferences for the dive.
We prepare the equipment and take the time to discuss how you would like the dive to go. We review the most important agreements and make sure everything is ready before we leave for the dive site.
Once everything is ready, we drive with you to the dive site. There, we discuss the conditions and go through the briefing before you enter the water with our instructor.
During the dive, our instructor stays with you and tailors the guidance to your group. There is time to enjoy the reef and marine life at a relaxed pace and to make the dive within your experience, certification and air consumption.
A guided dive usually takes approximately 2.5 hours including preparation and travel time. The dive itself usually lasts 30 to 60 minutes, depending on your air consumption, experience, dive site and conditions.
Private diving with your own party and personal guidance. Choose our complete dive equipment or bring your own equipment.
You dive exclusively with your own party and receive personal guidance throughout the dive. The price is per person, per dive.
With complete dive equipment
$86 • XCG 153 p.p.
With your own dive equipment
$74 • XCG 132 p.p.
Personal guidance inbegrepen. Beforehand, we discuss your experience, certification and preferences and tailor the guidance accordingly.
A private night dive at Caracasbaai, exclusively with your own party and personal guidance. The price is per person, per dive.
With complete dive equipment
$111 • XCG 198 p.p.
With your own dive equipment
$95 • XCG 170 p.p.
Please note: a check dive is required. The check dive is not included in the price and takes place before your night dive at Caracasbaai.
Every dive site in Curaçao has its own character. From well-known wrecks and colorful reefs to quiet bays with abundant tropical marine life.
The dive site is not always determined in advance. Our instructor makes the final choice based on your experience, certification, preferences and the conditions on the day.
A private guided dive can be ideal when you want the guidance to be fully tailored to your own party and experience.
Do you already have plenty of diving experience and mainly want to enjoy the reef and marine life? The instructor can then focus on what interests you during the dive.
Have you not dived for a while? Personal guidance can be helpful. Beforehand, we take the time to review your experience and any points that may need extra attention.
Would you like to take your time with photography during the dive? We can tailor the guidance and pace as much as possible to the way you like to dive.
Personal guidance is at the heart of every dive. We always consider your experience, certification and preferences while taking the conditions at the selected dive site into account.
A VIP Guided Dive is not only about the location, but especially about how you experience the dive.
Duikcentrum van de Ven is a family-run dive center in Jan Thiel. We have been guiding divers in Curaçao since 2010.
During a VIP Guided Dive, you have personal contact with our instructor. Beforehand, we discuss your experience and preferences, and during the dive we stay with your group.
This allows us to tailor the guidance at a relaxed pace to the way you dive and to what can be seen underwater that day.
Personal attention starts before the dive. We take the time to discuss your preferences and experience, so we can tailor the guidance as closely as possible to your group.
A few practical points to keep in mind before you go diving with us.
After the dive, there is time to talk about the experience. We discuss how the dive went and can tell you more about the location and the marine life you saw.
Below you will find the most important practical questions about a private guided dive at Duikcentrum van de Ven.
Yes. During a VIP Guided Dive, you dive exclusively with your own party and our instructor. No other divers are added to your group.
You book the VIP Guided Dive for your own party. For larger parties, an additional instructor may be required. We determine this when booking based on the composition of your group.
Yes. You can choose a VIP Guided Dive with our complete dive equipment or with your own dive equipment.
Our instructor considers your experience, certification and preferences, as well as the conditions on the day. Based on this, we determine which dive site best suits your group.
We take your preference into account, but our instructor makes the final choice based on your experience, certification and the conditions on the day.
Yes. If you have not dived for more than 3 months, we take the time beforehand to review the most important skills and points that may need extra attention.
De totale activiteit duurt doorgaans ongeveer 2.5 hours, including preparation and travel time. The dive itself usually lasts 30 to 60 minutes, depending on your air consumption, experience, de locatie en de omstandigheden.
Contact us and let us know how many people would like to dive, when you would like to dive, your experience level and whether you would like to dive with your own or rental equipment. We will then discuss the available options.
Tell us when you would like to dive, how many people are in your party and what your experience and preferences are. We will discuss which VIP Guided Dive and dive site best suit your group.
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