Family Friendly Phuket/Koh Samui

Anyone recommend a family friendly resort for day trip diving with
excellent, safe child care facilities for a 13, 10 and 8 year old?
Possibly the 13 year old will learn to dive.
Thanks

Simon wrote:
> evangelical_bob wrote:
>
>> Anyone recommend a family friendly resort for day trip diving with
>> excellent, safe child care facilities for a 13, 10 and 8 year old?
>> Possibly the 13 year old will learn to dive.
>> Thanks
>>
> Allamanda at Laguna Phuket - they also do good suites with multi rooms.
> This is cool as you can have a lounge and set stuff up and they have a
> lot more space. Kata Thani/Kata Bhuri (latter is more kid friendly,
> same place though - sister resort with shared facilities), good dives
> right off the beach or longboat 5 mins.
>
> If hotel units then Laguna Beach at Laguna Phuket is probably the best
> place in Phuket for kids. Great pool, water slide, loads of activities.
> Bit more expensive but not much.
>
> Bear in mind unless the odd beach dive (as said Kata is ok) day dive
> means DAY dive - 8 hours would be a decent average. 90% is boats away
> from Phuket. Child care in Phuket in my experience is very good. I
> have been there about 6 times in 2 years - live in Singapore - the Thais
> love children - this can also be said for Bali which would be an
> excellent alternative.


By the way - all the places mentioned do try out dive in their pools in
case your eldest wants to give it a go. To be honest, that is likely
true of a lot of decent hotels in Phuket. There are a HUGE number of
operators there and most hotels are affiliated with someone. You may
want to consider the diving you want as well - pay more for a speedboat
or be convenient but boat load of OW divers and a lot of trainees.