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test - 11 Nov 2005 02:32 GMT

Why is diving in the French Polynesuan islands so exspensive? $600 for 10
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Reef Fish - 11 Nov 2005 16:20 GMT

> Why is diving in the French Polynesuan islands so exspensive? $600 for 10
> dives

That is very INEXPENSIVE, for diving in the French Polynesia.

It's driven by the Free Market -- a price customers gladly (or
grudgingly)
pay to dive there.

I think many of us are so accustomed to the cheap cost of diving in
Cozumel and Central America third world countries that we think prices
are, or should be, that way in the rest of the world.

-- Bob.

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Dillon Pyron - 12 Nov 2005 04:16 GMT

>> Why is diving in the French Polynesuan islands so exspensive? $600 for 10
>> dives
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>-- Bob.

Go dive in Hawai'i some time.

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Reef Fish - 12 Nov 2005 19:16 GMT

> >> Why is diving in the French Polynesuan islands so exspensive? $600 for 10
> >> dives
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> Go dive in Hawai'i some time.

Been there, done that. Many times. Definitely less expensive diving
in Hawaii than some of the French Polynesian islands!

-- Bob.

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Dillon Pyron - 14 Nov 2005 00:45 GMT

>> >> Why is diving in the French Polynesuan islands so exspensive? $600 for 10
>> >> dives
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>Been there, done that. Many times. Definitely less expensive diving
>in Hawaii than some of the French Polynesian islands!

Ouch!

Of course, doing a dive at Walt Disney World is probably some of the
most expensive diving in the world. 20 ft for 30 minutes, $140.

>-- Bob.

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Reef Fish - 15 Nov 2005 04:44 GMT

> >> >> Why is diving in the French Polynesuan islands so exspensive? $600 for 10
> >> >> dives
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> Of course, doing a dive at Walt Disney World is probably some of the
> most expensive diving in the world. 20 ft for 30 minutes, $140.

But that's not a comparable situation at all. No one who is not
severely narc'd would call any Disney World kiddie pool play "diving".

No more so than a dip in some "Spa" in Las Vegas that could be
3 ft for 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for the apres-dive "massage",
for $1,000, plus tips. :-)

Won't say yea or nay to "Been there. Done that"!

-- Bob.

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D - 18 Jul 2006 18:48 GMT

I agree...Tahiti is probably one of the most exspensive places I have ever
been to for diving (haven't been to Maldives yet). But its not just the
diving that is exspensive. The food is outrages too. I was just there in
April. 6 dives cost me an average of $75 PER dive (and I brought all of my
own equipment). Beer at a grocery store was $32 for a 12 pack. Dinner at a
place called Alefredo's on Moorea was $100 for 2 drinks, garlic bread and
splitting a fettecini Alfredo.. Used to be in the resturant business and
that is about $5.00 worth of food. The alfredo wasn't that good too.
Besides seeing sharks every dive, the vis wasn't the greatest. IF you want
to get the best bang for your buck, Roatan or Belize. Average is about $18
PER dive.

Dave

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Reef Fish - 20 Jul 2006 07:16 GMT

> I agree...Tahiti is probably one of the most exspensive places I have ever
> been to for diving
> I was just there in April. 6 dives cost me an average of $75 PER dive
> (and I brought all of my own equipment).

If the average is over several islands, including Bora Bora, then it
sounds about right. But if it's averaged over any island other than
Bora Bora, it seem a tad high.

Equipment costs no extra -- so those who have their own equipment
are subsidizing those who don't.

> IF you want to get the best bang for your buck, Roatan or Belize.
> Average is about $18 PER dive.

Much inferior dives though, but the difference in cost is big, not to
mention the difference in travel cost to get to Tahiti vs Belize.

The TOTAL cost factor is why it is a reasonably good way to dive
the French Polynesia fro a cruiseship. At $75 a dive, you're not
going to dive more than 1 or 2 on most islands. The food is
excellent and plentiful on cruise ships. The room and food is
much less than land-based operations and even comparable
to the cost at a Caribbean location. No hassle going from one
island to the next ...

-- Reef Fish Bob.

> Dave
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-hh - 12 Nov 2005 14:08 GMT

> Why is diving in the French Polynesuan islands so exspensive? $600 for 10
> dives

The rates that I've been seeing are around $100/dive. Sounds like you
may have found a pretty good rate.

-hh

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yankeediver44 - 30 Nov 2005 20:54 GMT

When my wife and I dove in Tahiti we hooked up with a company call
TopDive for 10 dives and it was allot less then $600 and we got to dive
three different islands. Check them out.

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D - 16 Feb 2006 17:57 GMT

everything is exspensive in Tahiti. They figure if you can afford $600 a
night for an over the water bungalo, then what's another $600.

> Why is diving in the French Polynesuan islands so exspensive? $600 for 10
> dives

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Reef Fish - 16 Feb 2006 19:52 GMT

> everything is exspensive in Tahiti. They figure if you can afford $600 a
> night for an over the water bungalo, then what's another $600.
>
> > Why is diving in the French Polynesuan islands so exspensive? $600 for 10
> > dives

Why so expensive? It's what the market will bear. What you pay to
get there cost much more than the 10 dives. The diving is very good
to excellent on most of the South Polynesian islands.

$600 for 10 dives is a BARGAIN in French Polynesia.

I've dived with Top Dive on several islands. How much a dive cost
depends on the island. I am pretty sure you cannot get 10 dives
in Bora Bora for that price. Bora Bora is the most expensive of
the islands.

You can get that $60 per tank dive probably in most of the other
islands in the Society Islands group -- Moorea, Huahine, Raiatea,
and Tahiti, but I seem to recall if was slightly higher than $50 per
dive in at least a couple of those islands.

-- Bob.

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neniche - 16 Feb 2006 23:08 GMT

yeah why not

> everything is exspensive in Tahiti. They figure if you can afford $600 a
> night for an over the water bungalo, then what's another $600.
>
>> Why is diving in the French Polynesuan islands so exspensive? $600 for
>> 10 dives

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