The Junk, Thailand
- 9.2 Superb 121 Verified Reviews
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- Nitrox available
- from $ 159 / day
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“It was a perfect vacation. The cabins are comfortable, the boat was beautiful, the food was authentic and delicious. It was the cr…”
Highlights
SY The Junk is a unique historical vessel offering year-round diving in Thailand. She caters to 18 divers in 6 double/twin, triple, or quad cabins. All cabins are on the lower deck, with individually controlled AC and private en-suite bathrooms. The air-conditioned saloon is fully equipped with an entertainment system and is a great relaxing place. Alternatively, the spacious outdoor shaded deck or the loungers and bean bags on the top sundeck offer amazing views. Aboard The Junk, the chefs serve delicious meals and snacks 5 times daily, including 2x breakfast, ensuring you will never feel hungry. Enjoy your meals in the saloon or outside on the spacious shaded deck. This 33m authentic wooden sailing vessel has her own claim to fame and has been used in several films, including James Bond’s ‘The Man With The Golden Gun’ and the "Swiss Family Robinson."
The Junk offers diving liveaboard trips all year round and is a fantastic choice for exploring the best dive sites of the Thai Andaman Sea, the Similan and Surin Islands, and Southern Phuket: Koh Phi Phi and King Cruiser. The expansive dive deck has room for individual gear storage, large freshwater rinse tanks, and dedicated camera stations.
Book online today to start planning your Thailand dive adventure aboard The Junk.
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Included: VAT, Airport Transfer, Hotel Transfer, Drinking Water, Soft drinks, Tea & Coffee, Full-Board Meal Plan (All meals), Snacks, Diving Package, Land Excursions, Cabin Towels, Deck Towels.
Required Extras: National Park Fees (35-115 USD).
Optional Extras: Gratuities, Local Flights, Alcoholic Beverages, Nitrox (25 USD per day), Nitrox Course (100 USD), Private Dive Guide, Rental Gear, Scuba Diving Courses (50-250 USD), Snorkel Gear.
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Boat features
Food & Drinks
If you have any specific dietary requirements whilst on-board your cruise, you can add this to your special requests on step 2 of the booking form. We advise limiting these requests to religious beliefs or food allergies.
Diving
The crew speaks English.
Gear Rental
There is diving gear available on this boat. Please provide your rental needs on the booking form. See below for further details on inclusions and pricing. Show prices.
Drawings & Vessel Layouts
Boat Specifications
- Year built 1962
- Year renovated 1997
- Length 33m
- Beam 8.5m
- Top speed 10 knots
- Cruising speed 8 knots
- Engines 1 x Hino 380Hp
- Max guests 18
- Number of cabins 6
- Number of bathrooms 7
- Tenders 1 x 40 hp 4.20 meters 1 x 115 hp 5.80 meters
- Water capacity 8000 ltr
- Fuel capacity 10000 ltr
- Freshwater maker 6000 ltr/per day
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The Junk Reviews
- 9.2 Superb
- Vessel 8.3
- Crew 9.6
- Food 9.6
- Diving 9.1
- Value 9.1
Absolutely perfect
It was a perfect vacation. The cabins are comfortable, the boat was beautiful, the food was authentic and delicious. It was the crew that made the experience perfect. Everyone was kind, professional, enthusiastic. You can tell they enjoy and take pride in their work. They want to share these dive sites and make the trip a positive and enjoyable one. No amount of atmosphere can make up for what a dedicated and invested staff brings to the experience and they are what made my vacation so wonderful. I am so very grateful for them
- Recommended for
- The crew, the food, the dive sites
Excellent Liveaboard with Great Diving
Had a great time this past week aboard the Junk, they have a fantastic crew that makes your life easy! You really don’t have to worry about anything besides staying hydrated and enjoying your dives. Crew helps you from the moment you step on the dock, taking all luggage, helping you on and off the boat, refilling tanks between dives, helping you out of wetsuits, getting you in and out of the dingys, they truly make everything easy for you which helps enjoy the diving and the trip even more. The dives themselves are at beautiful sites, with great coral and interesting things to see. We didn’t get the luckiest on seeing “big stuff” on my trip, but macro lovers were thrilled on every dive. None of the dives were difficult, any diver could enjoy them. Highly recommend anyone visiting Phuket dives with the Junk!
- Recommended for
- Great staff, interesting dive sites, fun times
Amazing dive trip
Diving sites were amazing, dive crew were friendly and knowledgeable, boat crew were kind and friendly, so much fun
- Recommended for
- Many diving opportunities, wonderful staff and crew, overall wonderful atmosphere
Wish the trip wouldn’t end
Engaging with people from many countries, we all spoke the same language underwater! Richelieu Rock is a must see. Overall, just wish it had been a few days longer!
- Recommended for
- The Crew, food, and dive guides
Amazing boat and Crew
Let me start by saying that the Crew are absolutely amazing, very helpful with the equipment, helping me without being asked and always smiling and happy. The food was superb and varied and plentiful and a great touch was a different drink handed to you with a smile as soon as you got back into the boat from your dive.. I had the pleasure to have Chock as my dive guide and he was great !! - professional, very personable, very helpful and knowledgeable and an all round a really nice guy who clearly loves what he does. Thankyou Chock for helping me with my fins every dive and for all the videos. The cabins perhaps are not 5* luxury but it’s a dive boat with a lot of character and history and all you do is sleep in the room, so it’s still perfect.. Boat has 2 ribs that are used to pick is divers up from where we surface and take us back to the boat so minimal effort form end of dive to being back on the boat. . So I think to summarise, with such an amazing crew, you can’t go wrong and would 100% recommend a liveaboard on the Junk! 10/10.
- Recommended for
- The Crew, The food, the beautiful dive sites.. Did I mention the Crew..
Great diving experience !
All of the diving place and to pass my Advanced Open water. The life in the boat during these days.
- Recommended for
- The crew, the food, the diving
Fantastic!
This Christmas journey had many different dives from different country. Everyone was very friendly. The crew will do Fish ID together. Very interesting! We will share many photos and videos. It’s a very different Christmas! We have chicken and cake on the board!! We also got Santa hats! The crew also dressed up as Santa Claus. Very cute! Thank you to the all divers who participated! No dive No life !!!! Love, Olive
- Recommended for
- Great atmosphere, freedom , amazing meals!!
The junk, the best
Viele tolle Tauchgänge
- Recommended for
- Boot, essen und crew
Great boat and crew
Amazing crew who are super trained, lots of thought put into ops process of running the liveaboard. Was not happy with our dive guide who was very impatient and very stand-offish, and visibility in some dive sites was poor. Other than that, it was an overall amazing experience.
- Recommended for
- Great crew, amazing food, nice dive sites
Liveaboard of a lifetime!
The T-13 wreck dive was my favourite but I also really enjoyed doing my advanced diving course with instructor Chox. :)
- Recommended for
- 1. The crew 2. The diving and advanced dive course 3. The food