Infiniti

Infiniti is a large steel-hulled motor yacht measuring 39m in length and accommodating a maximum of 25 guests. This RINA-certified liveaboard cruises around the Philippines’ premier scuba diving regions: Tubbataha, The Visayas and Bohol, and Malapascua and Leyte.

All 11 cabins have ensuite bathrooms and are spread across the 3 decks. Relaxation spaces are varied here. The most popular social spot is usually the air-conditioned saloon/dining area on the main deck. There is also an outdoor lounge at the stern of the upper deck. There is also a huge, partially-shaded sundeck where you can stretch out on sun loungers or hammocks or enjoy a barbecue dinner. Regular meals are served in the main deck dining area. Here you will also find the library and TV and entertainment system.

This boat is blessed with many noteworthy facilities: a dedicated camera room, a bar serving complimentary alcoholic drinks, free satellite internet, camera tables and various charging stations. The dive deck is large and well-organised with individual diver stations and under-seat crates. Up to 5 dives per day can be made with Infiniti.

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Notes: Child policy: minimum age for these cruises is 15 years old.

Dive experience: All cruises require a minimum of 25 logged dives and an advanced diver certification to join. Some of the wreck dives in Coron are deep and in challenging conditions. Tubbataha and Visayas diving is typically deep 24m/80 ft to 30m/100 ft deep, multi-level wall dives, and moderate to strong currents are not unusual.

Cruise price per person includes: Cabin accommodation with air-conditioning, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, drinking water, soft drinks, hot drinks, fresh fruit juice, social servings of local beer, rum and wine with dinner, dives (as detailed in the trips above), 12 liter tanks (DIN and yoke), weights and weightbelts, experienced English-speaking dive masters (6 divers per guide), sales tax.

Cruise price per person excludes (mandatory, unless customer provides own): Scuba equipment (full set: US$ 33 per day), dive insurance, dive computer US$ 15 per day, marine park fees: Tubbataha 7 nights US$ 120, Malapascua, Apo Island & The Visayas (10 nights US$ 20 per night). There is a fuel surcharge of US$ 120 per trip. Unless otherwise stated, all the listed items need to be paid on arrival (cash or credit card - a 5% discount is offered if personal charges are paid by cash).

Optional extras: Return transfer from Puerto Princesa airport to boat US$ 76 per person, torch US$ 3 per dive, nitrox fills US$ 162 per week, rebreather costs and land excursions. The weather in the Philippines can be unpredictable, travel insurance is highly recommended. 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: Infiniti uses 2 ports:
Puerto Princesa: This port is used for cruises to Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park and some transit trips to Cebu. The local airport is Puerto Princesa Airport (PPS). There are direct flights from Cebu City and Manila, as well as from Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea.
Cebu City: Cebu Yacht Club is the port used for all other cruises. The local airport is Mactan Cebu International Airport (CEB). There are direct flights from Manila and some other Filipino cities, as well as from Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Dubai, Taiwan and China.
Boarding begins at 5 pm for a departure around 7 pm. The boat moors near port in the afternoon of the penultimate day and disembarkation is at 7 am. The last dive of the trip will be at around 8 am on the penultimate day. Please wait at least 18 hours before flying after diving.
All domestic travel arrangements (land, water and air transfers) to be arranged by Infiniti (please check with us). For more details, including airlines, see our Philippines travel information section.

Non-diver rate: There is no non-diver discount.

Single supplement (if you do not want to share accommodation): This is optional - single travelers may choose to share a cabin or pay a supplement of 80% of the normal published price.

Dive clubs and group discounts: Pay for 11 persons and 1 extra guest can join the cruise free of charge (total 12-21 guests). Pay for 20 persons and 2 extra guests can join free of charge (total 22-24 guests).

Whole boat charter rate (per night): Pay for 22 persons and 3 extra guests can join the cruise free of charge (max: 25 guests).

Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (7 Days / 6 Nights - 19 Dives)

Trip highlights: shark action, great macro life/ marine diversity, schooling fish & big pelagics

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities: Wall Street, Amos Rock, Malayan Wreck, Shark Airport, Washing Machine, Delsan Wreck, South West Wall, Black Wreck, Staghorn Point, T Wreck, Jessie Beazley Reef

Day 1
You will be greeted at Puerto Princesa Airport (PPS) or your local hotel on the day of departure and transferred to the Infiniti. Once on board, the cruise director will welcome you onboard, assign your cabin to you, give a boat safety briefing, crew introductions, and explain the plans for the coming week. You will have time to complete the necessary dive paperwork, familiarize yourself with the vessel and make yourself comfortable. Depending on guests arrival time you may enjoy lunch on board. Then you will depart from port for the 10 hour crossing. After a first good night's sleep, the diving adventure will commence the next day.

Days 2-6
The Tubbataha Reefs National Park is an UNESCO World Heritage site in the Sulu Sea in the middle of the Coral Triangle. There are 370 types of coral, 600 species of fish, 12 species of cetacean. The atolls are a great area for shark action with species such as guitar, blacktips, white tips, grey reef sharks, silkies, hammerheads and whale sharks. Other large marine life includes dogtooth tuna, giant trevally, barracuda, turtles and manta rays. The walls are adorned with beautiful soft corals and lots of cleaning stations. The shallows are made up of hard coral gardens.You can expect to dive all around the North Atoll, the South Atoll and Jessie Beazley Reef. Night dives are prohibited in Tubbataha due to higher currents, profile of reefs and the remote nature of the marine park.
Meals are prepared with the freshest ingredients by the chef and culinary team. Expect influences such as Thai, Filipino, Chinese and Indian as well as western dishes, all served buffet-style. Breakfast includes eggs, ham, bacon, pancakes, hash browns and fresh fruit. A sample dinner may include grilled snapper, Thai beef curry, penne arrabiata and chili basil stir fry vegetables. Complimentary beverages include fruit juices, soft drinks, iced water, iced tea, coffee, and a limited selection of local beer and wine.
After 2 morning dives on the final full day of the trip, Infiniti returns to port in Puerto Princesa, anchoring offshore.

Day 7
After breakfast, you will disembark and be transferred back to the local airport or local hotel.

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Cebu, Bohol & Dumaguete (7 Days / 6 Nights - 19 Dives)

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

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities: Moalboal, Pescador Island, Sumilon, Apo Island, Balicasag, Cabilao

Day 1
You will be greeted at Mactan Cebu International Airport (CEB) or your local hotel on the day of departure and transferred to the Infiniti. Once on board, the cruise director will welcome you onboard, assign your cabin to you, give a boat safety briefing, crew introductions, and explain the plans for the coming week. You will have time to complete the necessary dive paperwork, familiarize yourself with the vessel and make yourself comfortable. Depending on guests arrival time you may enjoy lunch on board. Then you will depart from port for the journey to Moalboal on the other side of the island. After a first good night's sleep, the diving adventure will commence the next day.

Days 2-6
On this cruise you will explore the best of the central Visayas region particularly around southern Cebu Island. You will have the opportunity to encounter hammerhead sharks at Cabilao, jacks and turtles at Balicasag, huge schools of sardines at Moalboal, whale sharks at Sumilon and the unforgettable walls of Apo Island and coral gardens of Pescador. And at all locations, there will be an overwhelming amount macro life – ghostpipefish, seahorses, frogfish, ribbon eels, innumerable species of shrimp, nudibranch, cuttlefish and octopus. It’s an incredible tour in the heart of the wonderland that is the Coral Triangle.
Meals are prepared with the freshest ingredients by the chef and culinary team. Expect influences such as Thai, Filipino, Chinese and Indian as well as western dishes, all served buffet-style. Breakfast includes eggs, ham, bacon, pancakes, hash browns and fresh fruit. A sample dinner may include grilled snapper, Thai beef curry, penne arrabiata and chili basil stir fry vegetables. Complimentary beverages include fruit juices, soft drinks, iced water, iced tea, coffee, and a limited selection of local beer and wine.
After 2 morning dives on the final full day of the trip, Infiniti returns to port in Cebu City, anchoring offshore.

Day 7
After breakfast, you will disembark and be transferred back to the local airport or local hotel.

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Southern Leyte & Malapascua (7 Days / 6 Nights - 19 Dives)

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

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities: Malapascua: Monad Shoal, Gato Island, White Tip Alley, The Cave, Nudibranch City, Southern Leyte: Panoan Island, Sogod Bay, Limasawa

Day 1
You will be greeted at Mactan Cebu International Airport (CEB) or your local hotel on the day of departure and transferred to the Infiniti. Once on board, the cruise director will welcome you onboard, assign your cabin to you, give a boat safety briefing, crew introductions, and explain the plans for the coming week. You will have time to complete the necessary dive paperwork, familiarize yourself with the vessel and make yourself comfortable. Depending on guests arrival time you may enjoy lunch on board. Then you will depart from port for the journey to Malapascua of the north of Cebu island. After a first good night's sleep, the diving adventure will commence the next day.

Days 2-6
Your diving experience will kick off with diving around Malapascua. Best known for the chances of encountering thresher sharks, this is in fact a very varied dive destination, with a wide range of sites and amazing creatures, large and small. The list of exciting creatures features white tip reef sharks, hammerhead sharks, tuna, barracuda, sea snakes and amazing macro from mandarinfish to mantis shrimps.
The little visited region of Southern Leyte offers some of the best diving in the Philippines. Whale sharks visit the area to feed on blooms of zooplankton, and there are some spectacular muck and macro sites where you can explore to find such wonders as hairy frogfish, xeno crabs, stargazers, and mimic and blue-ringed octopus.
Meals are prepared with the freshest ingredients by the chef and culinary team. Expect influences such as Thai, Filipino, Chinese and Indian as well as western dishes, all served buffet-style. Breakfast includes eggs, ham, bacon, pancakes, hash browns and fresh fruit. A sample dinner may include grilled snapper, Thai beef curry, penne arrabiata and chili basil stir fry vegetables. Complimentary beverages include fruit juices, soft drinks, iced water, iced tea, coffee, and a limited selection of local beer and wine.
After 2 morning dives on the final full day of the trip, Infiniti returns to port in Cebu City, anchoring offshore.

Day 7
After breakfast, you will disembark and be transferred back to the local airport or local hotel.

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(7 Days / 6 Nights - Dives)

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities:

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Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities:

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ZZDUMP (8 Days / 7 Nights - Dives)

Trip highlights: non diving activities

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities:

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[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].

11 en-suite cabins in total. 5 Deluxe cabins all on the lower deck: 2 with twin bunks (twin share) and 3 with twins side by side and 1 bunk bed (triple share). 6 Premier Deluxe cabins: 2 twin/double beds on the upper deck and 4 twin bed cabins on the main deck.

All the cabins have: No. of bathrooms / showers - 12 / 12 - hot water

Customer reviews:

"The service was fantastic and the food and room were great. The bathroom was huge. Service and what we saw diving tied for the best part." - Lea Engst, Philippines, 29 December 2024 ...

"We had a fantastic time traveling with Inifiniti. The liveaboard team was outgoing, professional, and went above and beyond to provide a great service and experience to us. Our dive master was outstanding and made us feel safe and supported, and ensured we had a wonderful time.The ship and our room was exceedingly comfortable and well equipped. The food was reliably good and there was plenty of it. The dive sites did vary a bit in quality, as the recent typhoon had impacted some of the reefs. Overall, we had an amazing time and would gladly dive with this group again.
I am always impressed with how quickly Vic responds to EVERYTHING. Having worked with Vic since 2015 to book our trips, my confidence in his responsiveness means that I'm more relaxed knowing that if anything comes up he'll be there for us if / when we need. I also want to call out how helpful he was in 2020 when we needed to cancel our trip and get a refund exception, given that we were saving for our wedding. He helped work with the operator for an exception, and his extra effort really made such a difference to us. I appreciated that so much and we remain loyal to the Dive The World team to this day. " - Christina Heggie, United States, 15 January 2024 ...