Unique opportunity to buy a PADI 5 * Dive Center in a beautiful upcoming diving location with a gorgeous boat, Nitrox compressor & house for the owner included
Thailand > South of Thailand, Krabi > Koh Lanta
Asking Price: 457,000 USD
Cash Flow: Available on request
Sales Revenue: Available on request
Description:
After building up our business for 6 years, we unfortunately had to close down because of Convid19. Thailand closed down the country, so there were not enough divers and customers around to keep the company open. Now Thailand has re-opened and tourists will flood back to beautiful islands and the gorgeous diving Koh Lanta offers. If you have always had a dream of having your own diving center or to have a business and live in Thailand, this is the time to invest and make this dream come true. You could live here all year around or just live and work here in the European winter months and go back to Europe for the European summer. Living in Thailand is cheap, weather is beautiful, people are lovely and the food is great! Explore your options by contacting us now and we can show you around by WhatsApp: +66909523674 The beautiful spacious house, with a big garden, 1 living room, spacious kitchen, large shower and toilet area, 1 extra separate toilet, 1 bedroom with air conditioning, 1 study, garage and large outside covered seating area looking out over the garden was just build 2 years ago. With the solar power, your energy costs are very low and you will have continuous power at all times. The garden has fruit trees, like limes, tomatoes plants, avocado's and small cucumbers. In front of the house is a large parking area, both open and covered and would still have space for a pool, if you wanted this. Further towards the street the large 5 * PADI dive center, which was just newly build 6 years ago, is waiting for your customers, students and staff to start working again. This is a turn-key operation and will be delivered like this and as we love Koh Lanta as well, we are not in a hurry to leave, so we can offer a working in period of 3 months as well. Our 4 different websites work really well and our Facebook (2 different ones) site generates many requests for diving. We are high listed on TripAdvisor and have been 5 stars with them for the last 4 years, before Convid19 happened and now again. We have since Convid19 worked again for two seasons, with our previous season, the best season ever. All licenses (TAT, boat, captains, engineers, Marine park) are in place and we have the possibility for 6 work permits for our dive center. The dive center building it self was especially designed by us for diving and tropical living conditions and has 2 classrooms, a toilet/shower, one bedroom with outside cooking and seating area (at the backside of the dive center), 1 giant wet room, 1 office and 1 outside bar and logbook seating area. One of the classrooms and the bedroom/staff room have air conditioning. All other rooms have fans. We have a lease contract for 15 years and the rental price per year is for the whole land, which includes the house and business. The Padi 5 * IDC dive center is located at the main street in the favorite tourist spot of Longbeach on Koh Lanta and is surrounded by nice small restaurants, minimarts, pharmacies and a few quiet little bars and some great resorts. It is a 2 minute walk from the dive center to the beach. Our big dive boat has been built by us together with our staff, especially for diving 10 years ago and has 2 marine toilets, 2 fresh water showers, a Bauer compressor with filling ribs, life jackets, oxygen, first aid kit, 2 engines with 2 gear boxes, radio, GPS and Depth/fish finder on it. We have 6 x 15 Liter steel tanks, 2 small baby tanks and 65 x 12 Liter aluminum tanks. We have 30 regulators, 30 bcd's, 60 wet suits and many fins and masks and snorkels. All of which has been newly serviced. We have an in-house Thai technician. Our Thai staff have been trained as PADI Divemasters and Instructor and have renewed memberships with PADI. The dive center is also renewed for 2024. The reason we are selling is personal/health related. We would like to retire. Please let me know when you would like to come for a viewing or would like some more information. NEW (8th of April 2022/improvements made after Convid19): 1. We have invested in a Nitrox filling station (a full Nitrox compressor) which we will use for ourselves, but also to supply other dive centers with Nitrox on Koh Lanta. 2. Marine Park license and TAT license have just been renewed in 2024. 3. We have invested in a Hydro testing unit, that allows our staff to do visual inspections and hydro testing, not only for our dive center, but also for the rest of the island. 4. All of our staff has followed the DMCR Dive Controller course and will be able to guide divers inside the marine park. 5. We are currently remodeling our website (will be finished before the season 2024/2025), to make booking even easier and making all of our shop processes digital, with even online payments.
Reason for Selling:
Personal health circumstances/retirement
Expansion Opportunities:
* return to nature and healthy living
* new road finished
* Krabi is now an international airport
* more and more Asian visitors find Koh Lanta (since our first bridge is finished already)
* between the shop and the house and behind the house there is still space for a pool
* there are a Swedish school, an International School, a language school and a local school on the island. Soon the International School will also start a High school (International) on Koh Lanta.
* Koh Lanta used to have more dive centers on the island and is Thailand's 4rd biggest island with world class Top 10 diving locations. In comparison: Koh Tao is much smaller and has over 65 dive centers, Phi Phi is much smaller and has over 35 dive centers. After the 2 season Covid19 closures on Koh Lanta, there are only a few dive centers left operating.
* there are around 35 different dive sites in this area with a great diversity of fish life and corals, even some manta's and whale sharks passing by here in the main season
* now we have a 6 to 7 months season, of which 5.5 months are really busy (before Convid19). It should be possible to take this to 8 months season and 7 months really busy with more Chinese, Malaysian, Indian, Japanese or Singaporean divers
* we just became a 5 star IDC Center before Convid19. We have already again set up 2 IDC Courses, but it should be possible to run more IDC courses over rainy season.
Offered Support for the new owner:
Working in period of max. 3 months and all email support after this that is needed.
We will help with servicing all gear and engines and compressors before turning over the company.
Websites:
www.andamandiveadventure.com
