Price per Dive: What a Dive Really Costs in Side

Type "diving price per dive" into a search bar and you will meet two very different pricing models on the Turkish Riviera. Dive centres aimed at certified divers often sell guided dives individually, so every tank becomes a separate line on the bill. Holiday dive trips like ours work the other way round: one all-in price for a full day at sea. Every Side Diving boat trip — Side, Kumköy, Kemer, Antalya or Alanya — costs a fixed €43–50 and includes two guided dives, all equipment, free two-way hotel transfer, a fresh lunch on board, plus passenger and diving insurance. Do the arithmetic and you are paying roughly €21.50–25 per dive, with the boat day, meal and transport effectively thrown in.

The two-dive structure is not padding — it is how beginners learn safely. Your morning dive stays at 5–8 m for 15–25 minutes while you get comfortable with breathing and buoyancy; the afternoon dive then goes to about 13 m — the beginner ceiling — deep enough to reach the roughly 110 sunken sculptures of the Side Underwater Museum on our €45 flagship trip, where instructors take just 3–4 divers each. No licence is needed, and non-divers can join the same boat as visitors at a reduced rate.

So when does per-dive pricing genuinely make sense? Mainly at centres that sell certified divers one tank at a time. With us, certified divers come on the same boats and dive the real profiles — around 30 m on standard certified dives, and down to 60 m on the deep sites for suitably qualified divers — so the named sites off this coast, the MS Paris II wreck at 21–31 m or the DO-28 aircraft off Kemer at 19.5–23.3 m, are dives our certified guests do here, not exotic extras. They are for certified divers only, never for discovery divers, and which site you actually dive depends on your qualification level, the conditions and the day's plan, so tell us your certification when you book via WhatsApp or our contact page. For everyone else, the live table below shows exactly what each full-day trip costs today; you can compare all five on our prices page. Reserving online is free, you pay on the day, and cancellation is free up to 24 hours before departure.