DIVERACE CLASS X

35m / 116ft MAX 20 NITROX WIFI

PRICE PER DAY FROM USD 256

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At a glance:

Liveaboard diving in Similans, Richelieu Rock, Phi Phi
All cabins have ensuite bathrooms
Cabins for solo travellers - no surcharge!
Roof top bar and Jacuzzi
Thai massage service
Large, steel-hulled boat

The MV DiveRACE Class X liveaboard - a 35-metre steel monohull motor yacht launched in December 2025 - combines stability, safety, and premium comfort for unforgettable liveaboard diving adventures in the Thai Andaman Sea. Specialising in 4- to 6-night cruises, it explores world-class sites like the Similan Islands and Richelieu Rock.

Despite its unconventional name, DiveRACE Class X delivers a high-end liveaboard experience, accommodating up to 20 divers in stylishly appointed cabins. The owners collaborated with an award-winning interior design firm to create an elegant and inviting atmosphere, with all cabins featuring private ensuite bathrooms, including 2 dedicated single-occupancy cabins for solo travellers.

Guests can unwind on the spacious sun deck with loungers and shaded seating, relax in the air-conditioned saloon, or socialise in the open-air upper deck area of the liveaboard. Additional luxuries include a rooftop bar, a Jacuzzi, onboard Thai massage services, and laundry facilities. There are also board games, snorkelling, beach visits and movies to enjoy.

The well-equipped dive deck features ladders, showers, and rinse tanks, while underwater photographers benefit from dedicated camera stations, multimedia charging points with international sockets, and nitrox availability. With an attentive crew of 18 aboard the DiveRACE Class X, divers are treated to thoughtful touches like post-dive hot chocolate, fresh juice, and warm towels.

Since 2009, DiveRACE has earned a stellar reputation for exceptional liveaboard experiences across Southeast Asia. Today, it stands as a trusted choice for divers seeking reliability, comfort, and outstanding service at sea.

There are 7 double / twin configurable bed cabins, 2 on the lower deck, 5 on the upper deck. There are a further 2 double bed Premium cabins on the upper deck, and 2 single bed cabins for solo travellers on the lower deck for the liveaboard. All cabins have en-suite bathrooms.

All the cabins have:

Individually controlled air-conditioning units
Private bathroom with toilet and hot water shower
Hand basin, towels, toiletries
Sea-view windows (portholes on lower deck)
Reading lights
Personal safe
Daily housekeeping

Hotel quality linen and comfortable 10 inch mattresses
Cabinet, shelves and mirror
Mains outlet 220 Volts - 24 hours per day, universal sockets
Bedding and towels (Indoor and outdoor towels provided)
Space for luggage
Life jackets

No. of bathrooms / showers - 11 / 11 - hot water

Similan, Koh Bon, Koh Tachai & Richelieu Rock

Trip highlights: whale sharks, manta rays, turtles, great macro life/ marine diversity

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, very popular, wall diving

Dive sites and activities: Similan Islands, Koh Bon, Koh Tachai, Richelieu Rock and Bunsoong Wreck

Day 1
The MV DiveRACE Class X crew will greet you onboard at Thap Lamu pier. While enjoying a welcome drink, your tour leader will introduce the liveaboard and review the dive itinerary. After settling into your cabin and unpacking your gear, you’ll have time to relax and meet your fellow guests. Dinner is served shortly after. The vessel then sets off on a 4 to 5-hour overnight cruise to the Similan Islands.

Cora Days
Up to 4 dives per day, including one evening with a night dive, await in the Similan Islands. The islands are renowned for their crystal-clear waters, which are home to more than 200 species of hard coral and boast the highest reef fish diversity in all of Thailand. You will explore a stunning variety of underwater landscapes, from dramatic sea fans and giant barrel sponges to mysterious caves, exciting swim-throughs, and shallow coral gardens that are also perfect for snorkelling between dives.
The liveaboard adventure extends to iconic sites just beyond the main archipelago. Koh Bon, located northwest of the Similans, is a premier location offering excellent chances of encountering majestic manta rays, alongside reef sharks and nurse sharks hiding beneath coral overhangs. Richelieu Rock, arguably Thailand's most famous dive site, is a magnet for marine life. Here, massive schools of barracuda, snapper, and trevally create a spectacle, while the vibrant corals hide fascinating macro life like frogfish, harlequin shrimp, and seahorses. This site is also a renowned cleaning station, making it a prime spot for sightings of passing whale sharks and manta rays. For those seeking pelagic action, Koh Tachai’s pinnacle delivers with strong currents that attract large marine visitors. The reef itself is carpeted in stunning fire and staghorn corals.

Day 5
2 final dives near Khao Lak wrap up your DiveRACE Class X trip, offering a chance to explore one of 3 wrecks: the Bunsoong Wreck, MV Sea Chart, or Premchai Wreck. After working up an appetite, you'll enjoy breakfast and a final lunch on board as the liveaboard makes its way back to Thap Lamu pier for disembarkation.

Similan, Richelieu Rock & Hin Daeng (7 Days / 6 Nights - 22 Dives)

Trip highlights: whale sharks, manta rays, turtles, great macro life/ marine diversity

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, caverns, very popular, wall diving

Dive sites and activities: Similan Islands, Boonsung Wreck, Koh Bon, Koh Tachai, Richelieu Rock, Surin Islands, Koh Ha, Hin Daeng, Hin Muang

Day 1
Your adventure begins at Panwa Pier in Phuket, where you will board the MV DiveRACE Class X and be welcomed by the crew. After a welcome drink and trip briefing, you can settle into your cabin and prepare your gear. Dinner is served before the liveaboard sets sail on its overnight journey to Koh Ha.

Core Days
Your diving safari with the DiveRACE Class X is engineered to fully explore the world-renowned seascapes of the Similan Islands and the legendary sites of the Andaman Sea's Big Blue circuit. Each day presents a new underwater frontier. You will begin amidst the Similans' iconic formations, navigating through massive granite boulders adorned with gorgonian sea fans, exploring light-dappled caverns, and gliding through thrilling swim-throughs that burst with colour from clouds of anthias. These sites cater to all levels, offering gentle coral gardens for beginners and exhilarating drifts for the advanced.
The liveaboard adventure escalates as you journey to the premier offshore pinnacles. At Koh Bon, you'll hover on the precipice of its deep-water wall, eagerly scanning the blue vastness for the silhouette of a manta ray or the colossal, polka-dotted form of a gentle whale shark. Further north, the submerged plateau of Koh Tachai delivers an adrenaline-fuelled dive where powerful currents concentrate immense schools of barracuda, trevally, and patrolling sharks. The crown jewel, Richelieu Rock, is a submerged pinnacle entirely encrusted in soft corals and anemones, creating a magnet for breathtaking macro life like ghost pipefish and seahorses, while also attracting the same giant pelagics.
Your safari will also venture to the southern realms of Hin Daeng and Hin Muang, where sheer walls plummet into the abyss, blanketed in a stunning tapestry of red and purple soft corals. Alternatively, the Koh Ha archipelago offers ethereal dives through its limestone caverns, where light beams pierce the darkness, creating a cathedral-like atmosphere.
From your first morning dive to potential night dives under the stars, every descent with the MV DiveRACE Class X promises a unique encounter with turtles, hunting predators, and the sheer, immense marine diversity that makes this region a true bucket-list destination for divers worldwide.

Day 7
On the final day, you will enjoy 2 dives at the fascinating Boonsung Wreck near Khao Lak. Following your underwater exploration, breakfast and lunch will be served onboard. The liveaboard will then return to Thap Lamu Pier, where you will disembark for your transfer back to the hotel.
Please be aware that this itinerary may sometimes operate in reverse order, so it is important to verify your specific departure and return port details prior to travel.

[Information is best estimate in ideal circumstances and subject to changes beyond our control. The itinerary is a guide only and may be adapted to best suit the weather, tides, currents, availability and other prevailing events. Price is for the cruise, not for an exact number of dives].

Every trip starts in the evening with dinner, after all guests have arrived. There will be chef-prepared meals each day, crafted from fresh local ingredients and aromatic spices. Enjoy buffet-style dining that blends Asian and Western cuisine, served in the main deck dining room. Throughout your liveaboard cruise with DiveRACE Class X, help yourself to tea, hot chocolate, juices, and milk, along with fresh snacks throughout the day. Or have a freshly ground coffee on the house before you get ready for the next dive.

Each day begins with an early wake-up call and a light breakfast, followed by a well-paced schedule with up to 4 dives, interspersed with full meals and afternoon tea. The day winds down with dinner after a dusk dive, offering the perfect close to a day of exploration. Some example dishes: Sukiyaki steamboat, Phad Thai, BBQ chicken and seafood. Beer, wine and soft drinks are also available onboard. A barbecue night is also normally scheduled during the dive trip.

The liveaboard is also happy to accommodate most dietary needs with advance notice, ensuring every guest enjoys delicious food, fine drinks, and great company after a thrilling day underwater.

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Dive experience: Requirement is an open water quallification with a minimum of 10 logged dives.

Cruise price per person includes: Cabin accommodation with air-conditioning, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, drinking water, hot drinks, round trip transfers to the boat from Phuket airport and hotels in tourist areas (Kata, Karon, Rawai, Chalong, Patong) and Khao Lak area, dives (as detailed in the trips above), experienced English-speaking divemaster(s) (5 divers per DM), tanks, weights and weightbelts, sales tax.

Cruise price per person excludes (mandatory, unless customer provides own): Scuba equipment (USD 25 per day), dive computer (USD 8 per day), surface marker buoy, Similan and Surin park fees at approximately USD 6 per day, with an entry fee of USD 15 per park, dive insurance. Unless otherwise stated, all the listed items need to be paid on arrival (cash only - THB).

Optional extras: Soft drinks, alcoholic drinks, nitrox fills for enriched air certified divers (USD 6 per dive, or USD 77 per 14 dives), torch (USD 8 per day), 15 litre tank (USD 8 per day), Thai massage. Unless otherwise stated, all the listed items need to be paid on arrival. Note: prices of items purchased onboard are subject to change.

How to get there: DiveRACE Class X's Similan liveaboard trips depart from Tap Lamu, near Khao Lak. Trips to Hin Daeng & Hin Muang depart in the evening from Chalong Bay. A minibus service from all hotels in Phuket or Phuket Airport to and from the boat is provided with pick-ups usually between 4-5:30 pm, depending on the itinerary. Boarding begins at 6 pm, and the boat departs from the pier after dinner at 8-11 pm.
The last dive of the trip will be at around 10 am on the last day of the trip, and the boat will return to the pier at 1:30 pm. Please allow at least 18 hours before flying after diving.
For more details, including airlines, see our Thailand travel information section.

Non-diver rate: 20% off the published prices.

Single supplement (if you do not want to share accommodation): This is optional - single travellers may reserve one of the 2 single cabins on the lower deck, or choose to share a twin cabin with another solo traveller, or pay a supplement of 80% of the published price for their own double bed cabin.

Dive clubs and group discounts: Pay for 10 guests and 1 extra person can join the cruise free of charge (total 11+ guests).

Whole boat charter rate (per night): Pay for 18 guests and 2 additional persons can join free of charge. Offer valid until 15 November 2025.

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